Women: It’s Time To Become A Somebody, And Not Just A Body
My best friend at school, Ayesha, was the eldest among four siblings. Out of the four, she was the only ...
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Tag: college
The Vanishing Bookstores Of Peshawar
“What I say is: a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless ...
Authorities Must Save Gordon College From Attempts To Return To The Colonial Era
Recent developments in the history of Gordon College, Rawalpindi, are, indeed, extremely ominous: not only for the students of the ...
Super Hasan Zai – Remembering A Decrepit Bus From Hell
Super Hasan Zai is a decrepit, sad excuse for a bus that runs from Sindh Medical College to Gulshan-e-Iqbal in ...
A Call For Action Against Harassment In Colleges And Universities
A recent letter from the chairman of Higher Education Commission (HEC) is doing the rounds of offices of vice chancellors ...
The Doctor At 24 Marris Road, Aligarh
In 1947, my mother Tahirah and her eldest sister Amina were the only two members of their family who migrated ...
Making Big Choices
One of the most stressful challenges for a student is selecting a college. The students are not only trying to ...
Here’s Why You Should Judge A Book By Its Cover When Choosing A College
One of the most stressful challenges for a student is selecting a college. They are not only trying to figure ...
Studying Modern Warfare As World War II Raged: A Muslim Instructor’s Life At Staff College Quetta
My father Maj Gen Syed Shahid Hamid was one of the first Muslim officers on the faculty of the Staff ...
250 Afghan Refugee Students Will Receive Higher Education In The US
Qatar Afghan Scholarship Project (QASP) students are Afghan refugees continuing their undergraduate or graduate education on full scholarships at U.S. ...
Of Empathy, Reading Fiction And Coins From A Different Realm
Retirement is that stage of life when a working person looks forward to transition from the daily grind of work ...
The Story Of The Man Who Designed The Minar-e-Pakistan
His life was to be played out in Makhachkala, but fate ultimately landed him in Lahore, in a country which ...
Dead Capital Stored In Public Halls Of Islamabad
The term “dead capital” is used by economist Hernando de Soto Polar in his renowned book The Mystery of Capital, ...
The Swashbuckling Life Of A 19th-Century Medical Graduate From Lahore
Syed Sher Shah was born around 1844 in the walled city of Lahore in Mohalla Sathan, Kucha Loon Chakhan inside ...
From Artillery Barracks to Anarkali: Thee Early History Of Lahore’s King Edward Medical College
The early history of King Edward Medical College is inextricably linked with the inception of Western medical education in the ...
Dr. Salam Wanted To Change Jhang, Pakistan And The World – But His Own Country Would Not Accept Him
Dr. Salam was born on the 29th of January 1926 in the conservative religious environment in Jhang, Punjab, Pakistan. He ...
Print Pals: A Concoction Of The Personal, The Cultural And The Artistic
The pandemic has changed the world as we know it. The isolation, the quarantine, the shut off borders and above ...
A Tale of 2 Medical Colleges that Refused to Die
This is a story of two medical colleges that refused to die. It took some hard work on the part ...
THE TRUTH WILL OUT
Shaukat Siddiqui At 100: The Fire-Breathing Musician
Shaukat Siddiqui was a great novelist. He was...
Pakistan-IMF Deal: Concerns Of A Potential Default Resurface
Pakistan is struggling to avoid a default. The...