Academic corruption in Pakistani Varsities (Part-V) on February 19, 2020Varsities operating in Pakistan are running with enormous gender-based issues related to academics and career development. At the campus, females, both teachers and students, easily get privileges, priorities, justice and benefits everywhere and anytime on the campus. On the other hand, males, both teachers and students, are sidelined and discriminated and they are even deprived […]
Academic corruption in Pakistani varsities – IV on August 21, 2019Passed in 2010, the 18th amendment in the constitution of Pakistan delegated the education sector to the legislative and executive jurisdiction of provinces. Presumably, provincial autonomy and devolution of education are premium gifts of the 18th amendment, but it has its pros, cons and colossal implications, especially in the domain of higher education. Welcome to […]
Four Star Democracy of Pakistan — III on August 8, 2019Pakistan is a problem-ridden country, and if those problems are not identified and highlighted, how can we expect their solutions in future? Pakistan army’s Director General (DG) ISPR Major General Asif Ghafoor called upon the media on December 6, 2018. The purpose of this media gathering was to create public awareness and project a positive […]
Legal flaws in Pakistan citizens portal and its aftermath on February 7, 2019Pakistan Citizen Portal (PCP) was launched on 28 October 2018 by the Prime Minister (PM) of Pakistan Imran Khan with an aim to timely address the problems of the people. PM Khan called it one of the manifestations of ‘New Pakistan’. An app is available on Google play store on android mobiles where people can […]
Academic corruption in Pakistani varsities — Part III on January 25, 2019Academic corruption has established its identity finally as the major defining feature of Pakistani varsities where universal values of epistemology are usually compromised and money making is highly preferred and appreciated now. There are many factors which are contributing a lot towards corrupt academics in Pakistani varsities. Moral corruption, unnecessary and mala fide institutional politics […]
Charity oriented governance on September 19, 2018Prime Minister (PM) of Islamic Republic of Pakistan Imran Khan seeks overseas Pakistanis’ help to build dams. The PM on September 7, 2018, appealed to overseas Pakistanis to donate $1000 each to help finance construction of Diamer-Bhasha dam. Mr Khan further expounded that these financial donations from abroad will help improve the fast depleting foreign […]
Academic corruption in Pakistani varsities — II on April 28, 2018(This article is a continuation of the article “Academic corruption in Pakistani varsities” published in Daily Times 21-11-16) Just a few days ago, Chairman Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) identified the issue of fake, engineered and purchased MPhil and PhD theses and reported it. He wrote a letter to Governor Punjab in this regard, and […]
Pakistan’s Four-star Democracy — II on December 5, 2017“The agreement materialised through the special effort of chief of army staff and his team”. Four-star democracy is once again in the streets of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Pakistan army dominated, and the democratic government surrendered its supremacy again. The sit in of Tehreek-E-Labbaik was over on 27th November after the Pakistan army, as usual, brokered […]
Pakistan’s four-star democracy on November 2, 2017Pakistan Foreign Minister (FM) Khawaja Asif recently said “Afghan policy should be drawn up by politicians and not by generals”. A couple of weeks ago an exchange of hot words took place between DG ISPR Major General Asif Ghafoor and Pakistan Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal. These are some recent manifestations of a cloaked tug of […]
Siachen glacier: battlefield or highest tourist attraction in the world? on August 29, 2017The Siachen glacier is traditionally known as the “Pride of Pakistan”. The Siachen glacier is actually a triangular disputed territory nicely sandwiched geographically between Pakistan, India and China. Both Pakistani and Indian armies claim possession of Siachen glacier, and they have been fighting in Siachen since 1984. The Siachen glacier is known as the highest […]