2014

‘And when thy Lord said unto the angels: Lo! I am about to place a viceroy in the earth, they said: Wilt thou place therein one who will do harm therein and will shed blood, while we, we hymn Thy praise and sanctify Thee? He said: Surely I know that which ye know not.’ (Al-Baqarah:30) Human beings have a great …

A new reform drive in the educational sector of Pakistan has been embarked on recently. Media reports suggest that international donors have pledged one billion dollars for development in the educational sector of our country. But there is a serious problem. The problem is not that there was no need for reforms, but these donor countries who are showing concerns …

From the recent key events like Arab Spring, the Spanish Indignados Movement, and London Riots, political and social mobilization came to the fore a handiwork of new communication technologies. The question is: ‘Did new communication technologies play a decisive, causal role or just acted as an instrument in facilitating the process. In the following lines, the role of social media …

There is a crucial connection between means and ends in the projection of global influence. For instance, the Suez Canal, which opened in 1869, acted as a tool of empire for the great powers of the nineteenth century. The building of a canal through the Sinai Peninsula not only made trade and empire in Asia faster by avoiding the Cape …

News From National & International Press National Feb 16: A militant outfit, Mohmand Agency Taliban, claimed to have killed 23 FC soldiers they had kidnapped from Shongari checkpost in the tribal region in 2010. Feb 16: Clean Water Trust, for providing clean and hygienic drinking water to people across the Punjab, was formed with Punjab Governor Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar as …

(Solved by Prof. Muzaffar Bokhari) Q No. 2: PRECIS Education and Morality The only protection for today’s man is to find the use of his intelligence in the service of love. Intelligence can become a means of morality and survival if its training includes human sympathy. Educators can add morality to intelligence. The task of teaching morality was entrusted to …

‘Observe your duty to Allah in respect to the women, and treat them well.’ (al-Hadith) Islam has bestowed on women the numerous social and economic securities. Since its emergence, Islam always had advocated and protected the rights of women. Islamic teachings, obliterating the false customs regarding women, have granted them unprecedented prestige and honour. The inhumane practices like female infanticide …

For a generation, until the collapse of the Soviet Union, American news organizations reported on the world largely through the prism of the Cold War. Particularly on TV networks the East-West Conflict was a useful framing device especially on news shows.  But, after the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989, media enterprises turned their attention towards domestic matters. Thus, media …

Democracy is the only solution to all the problems that Pakistan is tangled in nowadays. It is the only panacea which can pave the way for resolutions of all the evils faced by common man. Democracy can be well articulated by the statement of Abraham Lincoln who said that the democracy is ‘the government of the people, by the people, …

As we look through the lattice of history, we realise that the greatest hindrance to recognising the excellence of a genius comes from his contemporaries. Allama Iqbal was one of those rare geniuses whose excellence in the field of poetry as well as political thinking was recognised throughout the world in his own lifetime. As we look through the lattice …