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Letters to the Editor (February 2019)

The Lost Humanity Humanity plays a great role in bonding the humans together but sadly to say that no state of the world is willing to give due respect to humanity and human rights. It is no secret that in today’s world, we can find people but we can’t find humanity in them. If today humanity would exist in the …

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Pakistan Making Progress on External and Internal Fronts (Editorial February 2019)

Editorial February 2019

January 2019 has been a month of encouraging progress for Pakistan on external as well as internal fronts, with two big events, that is, Afghan peace talks and the mini-budget, dominating as the talk of the town. As for the first one, a major breakthrough was achieved in peace talks between Afghan Taliban and the United States, which was made …

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Research Culture in Pakistan

Research Culture in Pakistan

An Oft-neglected Domain Research is an all-time métier of Dr Zahid Yousaf, an Associate Professor and Head Center for Media and Communication Studies, University of Gujrat. His deep devotion for, and resolute commitment to, promoting research is vividly evident in the launch of, in a very short span of time, MPhil and PhD classes at the Centre, and a growing …

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Letters to the Editor (January 2019)

Learning from the Past On December 16, the nation, besides bemoaning the dismemberment of Pakistan, painfully recalled the horrific incident of massacre at Peshawar’s Army Public School (APS). The response of our nation, its political leadership and security apparatus immediately after this carnage was guided by anguish and revenge. However, on the contrary, it should have been – and any …

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Fatima al-Fihri

Fatima al-Fihri

The Founder of World’s First University A very intellectual, smart and generous woman of her time, Fatima al-Fihri founded the world’s first university to continuously grant degrees, the University of al-Qarawiyyin, an institute that has provided education to many philosophers and scholars who went on to significantly contribute to the cumulative knowledge of humanity Did you know that a Muslim woman …

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Out of the Shell of Depression

Depression

By: Laiba Muhammad Aamir How to Stop Struggling, and Start Living? “A depression can be a golden opportunity given to us by life to face head-on issues that matter greatly to our hearts, but which, out of haste or ignorance, have been swept under the carpet.” This is a beautiful and encouraging piece by Elif Shafak in her book ‘Black …

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