These are unprecedented times with situation around COVID-19 (coronavirus) evolving and becoming challenging by every hour. We can easily gauge the magnitude of health and economic impact by just noting overcrowded hospitals or inactivity at world’s largest business districts or cities globally. As counties plan and execute their response strategies to the virus, there is […]
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Protecting women by women birth-aids in distant areas
There is always some sideline news related to mother-child ailment, morbidity as well as mortality. In developing countries more women are prone to malnourishment and resultant medical sickness, the children born to such women are also more prone to disease and death. Natural calamity is a thing which we cannot avoid, however, linking mother or […]
Punishing the Healers
It’s a first all-nighter an 18-year-old has to pull because these are the days where he has to study hard enough to get in a medical college; fulfilling the dream that he always looked up to. He is incited by the honor and esteem this profession comes with and he is working hard to achieve […]
Therapy and myths of seeking help
It was an old winter afternoon almost a year ago when I first walked into the therapist’s office with my heart pounding wildly. I did not know what to expect, I was apprehensive, to say the least, but I knew one thing for certain: I needed to be there. It is often said that the […]
There is more to child abuse than just sexual abuse
Child sexual abuse is a rising epidemic in Pakistan. The biggest case appeared in Kasur district in 2015. Although the subsequent news was an eye-opener, it didn’t change the abuse culture that much national or internationally. Zainab Ansari was one of many other episodes of this series of abuse. The emotions, honor, and religious and […]
Best Videos for Learning and Songs on YouTube
Most of the time, kids don’t like the learning process. They get bored when their parents and teachers force them to read aloud or repeatedly. They don’t like book reading, but if you provide them visual resources, then they can learn things more easily and effectively. They remember things more in visual as compared to […]
Achieving minorities rights in Pakistan
Pakistan is a diverse country where people from different ethnic groups and communities live together. Hindu, Sikhs, Christians, Ahmadi’s and many more. All these communities share equal contributions in the development of Pakistan. Not only at the time of independence but also the post independence era. These minorities continue have struggled to uplift the statue […]
Reading is fun
Sir: “The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.” Reading, no doubt, is an incredibly inexpensive hobby. It is one of the most priceless and important activity. Reading has various forms; be it a book, magazine, blogs, online article, and even a word written on a wall can be a form of […]
On being alone or lonely
“If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company”- Jean Paul Sartre We come to this world alone and are left alone after we pass away but throughout the period in between we yearn for the company of other human beings otherwise many tend to lose their sanity. We want to be […]
Bistar khud garam karlo; Appraising Marital Rape in Pakistan
No slogan at the Aurat March bore the brunt of Pakistani male rebuke more than the one on a placard declaring “khana garam kardoongi, bistar khud garam karlo” (I will warm your food, but warm the bed yourself). Whilst last year’s “apna khana khud garam karlo” received similar backlash and outrage for challenging rigid and […]