Surge in Economic Squalls Impacting Students on September 26, 2023Two weeks into the fall semester at a business school in Karachi, an email arrived in the inboxes of students while many of them hurried between classes. The email began gently but bore the heart-wrenching news of a 13% increase in tuition fees. A similar scenario unfolded for students at another business school in Lahore, […]
Laxing the Acceptable Norms on July 28, 2023Norms are cultural phenomena that proscribe or prescribe behaviour in specific circumstances. Anyone with the determination to contribute towards the uplift of society morally and modernize it technologically, with self-conviction for personal growth, could not care more about good norms. On the other hand, if people adopt different norms in different sets of situations, favouring […]
Awaiting Light in a Dark Room on June 17, 2023A few days ago, an incident happened in the Hajarawal area of Lahore where twin brothers suffocated in a flour container and died. Both were playing hide and seek in their home and got locked up in the container placed inside. A day later, their dead bodies were recovered after a stinking smell spread all […]
15th Aalmi Urdu Conference at ACPKHI on December 9, 2022Unifying a deeply polarized society cannot be done more effectively by any other tool except art, drama, music, and theatre. The arts council of Pakistan in Karachi has continued to play a momentous and cherishing role in solidifying the existence of arts by promoting, highlighting, and teaching it. The institute served as a momentous change […]
18th Amendment seems to fail education on October 4, 2022Every state acknowledges its citizens’ right to education. Nearly all countries, including Pakistan, are signatories to international human rights agreements, such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that bound them to hold principal responsibilities for the direct provision of the right to education. Like other human rights, the right to education has certain levels […]
Student Strata and Political Realism on September 19, 2022A commonly-held viewpoint about education is that it’s an ultimate goal of a person’s life to earn a degree in his hand and add himself to a self-proclaimed upper echelon. No doubt, it’s an incredible exposition by the capitalists’ commune. Whenever this elucidation enters a duel of improvisation, it wins with flags. As compared to […]