Govt urged to act on threats to ANP veteran Mian Iftikhar on September 13, 2018Awami National Party (ANP) leader and former provincial minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain, who has been receiving threat alerts from the security agencies for the past few weeks, has urged the federal government to act against militants. Talking to Daily Times, he said he was informed by the provincial Home Department as well as representatives of […]
Lack of women, minorities in new cabinets raises eyebrows on August 30, 2018Lack of gender parity and diversity in newly-revealed provincial cabinets has been slammed by opposition politicians and rights activists. There are no women ministers in the cabinets of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Balochistan. In Punjab, the 23-member cabinet has only one female minister. Yasmin Rashid has been given the charge of health ministry. Moreover, there […]
Criticism of the military is not treason on August 28, 2018The dawn of “Naya Pakistan” has set in, but some things in this country remain unchanged. Censorship on media and crushing of dissent is in full swing and there does not seem to be an end to it (not anytime soon at least) because the new government appears to be close to the usual suspects […]
Combating extremism through critical thinking on August 27, 2018Lack of critical thinking is one of the many flaws of Pakistan’s education system. Concerns have been raised by experts time and again about the content of textbooks which in some cases promotes racial hatred and division on the basis of religion. While there have been efforts in the recent past to amend the educational […]
After change of government in Punjab, fate of pro-women projects uncertain on August 22, 2018With the end of Pakistan Muslim League- N (PML-N) government in the Punjab, the future of a number of projects initiated by former Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif has become uncertain. Among these are the Chief Minister’s Special Monitoring Unit (SMU) and a Strategic Reforms Unit (SRU), a think tank formed in 2014 to introduce reforms […]
Art student depicts Pakistan’s cultural diversity by reimagining currency notes on August 21, 2018Twenty-two-year-old art student from Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU), Rida Mushtaq redesigned Pakistan’s currency as her final year thesis project. It was displayed at FJWU during the second week of August. The idea was to showcase Pakistan’s cultural diversity and the artist researched about Pakistan’s existing currency and some foreign currencies for the purpose. Pictures […]
‘Expansion of new media in Pakistan has empowered the youth’ on August 15, 2018Journalist and Daily Times Editor Raza Rumi said the Pakistani society is moving in the right direction and the youth today is more politically and socially aware than ever before. He expressed these views while addressing the launch ceremony of his book ‘Being Pakistani’ at Books n Beans Café in Lahore on Monday. “Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad […]
Reclaiming Jinnah’s vision of civilian supremacy on August 14, 2018As the nation celebrates its 71st independence day today, politicians and generals will be seen addressing ceremonies and speaking at great length about what kind of Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah had envisioned. Each political leader will term himself the true representative of the country’s forefathers and reiterate that the nation needs to carry forward […]
Pakistan’s #MeToo moment: We still have a long way to go on August 12, 2018Men in the land of the pure have been able to get away with casual misogyny and sexual harassment for far too long, partly because the victims are not encouraged to open up about their ordeal. Sexual harassment is often trivialised in the media and the culture of victim-blaming is promoted. But for the past […]
Despite political awareness, women voters not free to make independent decisions on July 31, 2018Although political participation of women in Pakistan has increased in the past few years, presence of women in public spaces during political activities remains limited even in the provincial capital of Punjab. A survey conducted by Daily Times in Lahore’s NA 131 constituency, prior to the general elections held on July 25, found that female […]