Kashif Mirza

Bad governance is the root cause of all ills in Pakistan. Absence of government writ is the worst kind of governance. Bad governance is the breeding ground for corruption, which damages a country’s development, and is highly regressive and inequitable. Pakistan, is facing numerous challenges and issues since long, so the Covid-infected world lurches into […]

The global health pandemic has shined a harsh light on the vulnerabilities and challenges humanity faces. It has provided a clear picture of existing inequalities—and a clearer picture of what steps forward we need to take, among them addressing the education of more than 1.5 billion students whose learning has been hampered due to school […]

School closures are stressing our kids and threatening their future. Our children are going through it too and keeping them out of school makes it much worse. The pandemic is testing us all with volatile, uncertain and complex times and our children are going through it, too. The adults in the room worry about their […]

Covid-19 has posed several unanticipated challenges for the education sector in countries like Pakistan where vast numbers of students are now at risk of falling behind. Pakistan’s educational woes however are longstanding. A decade after the right of education was guaranteed by a constitutional amendment, 25-A, Pakistan has the dubious distinction of world’s second-highest number […]

Soon after the creation of Pakistan, we started borrowing to support growth and industrialization. However, slowly our leaders fell prey to the temptation of spending lavishly on non-developmental projects. Such spending did not add anything to the economy but kept ballooning our external debts. They never thought that such royal ways of spending would eventually […]

The outbreak of COVID-19 covered the whole world, posing severe socio-economic challenges, especially for the Developing Countries. Pre COVID-19, global growth was projected to rise by 3.3 % in 2020, which was sharply contracted by -3% in April 2020 as a result of the pandemic. According to the World Economic Outlook (WEO) June 2020 forecast, […]

Carrying heavy school bags day after day is one of the most distressing experiences for young children. Many complain of back pain, which results in adoption of bad habits like poor posture or slouching. The issue of pupils lugging heavy school bags has been a long-standing problem and it is not getting any better. Now, […]

The AC along armed guards was asked by the security guard to get his temperature checked before entering the premises of the school, he took it as a personal offence and instructed his guards to use force as a method to put the guard, who was merely doing his job in his place. Rana Aurangzeb, […]

The Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) has issued the schedule for its November 2020 examinations for O and A level students around the world, including Pakistan, amid the coronavirus pandemic. It is expected that number of students participating in the November exams will be much higher after examinations of May and June were cancelled this […]

The government has unveiled a Single National Curriculum (SNC) for school education in the country. The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government started its tenure with an Education Policy Framework, highlighting reforms in four priority areas in education. These were: Putting all the out-of-school children in schools, as required by Article 25 A-of the Constitution; eliminating apartheid […]