نغمہ حبیب پاکستان شرح خواندگی کے لحاظ سے دنیا کے اُن ممالک میں شامل ہے جو ابھی بین الاقوامی معیار تک نہیں پہنچے ہیں۔ہماری یہ شرح تقریباََ ساٹھ فیصد کے آس پاس ہے جب کہ بین الاقوامی سطح پر مقرر کردہ شرح اس سے کہیں زیادہ ہے۔یہاں یہ بات بھی قابلِ ذکر ہے کہ سکول جانے والی عمر کے بچوں کی ایک بڑی تعداد سکول نہیں جا رہی اور اس سلسلے میں ہم دنیا میں دوسرے نمبر پر ہیں۔بہت سارے چھوٹے چھوٹے ممالک ہم سے شرح خواندگی میں ...

Dr. Firoz Mahboob Kamal Like a virus, toxic ideologies never remain confined within the geographical or political borders. It quickly spreads and gets followers beyond the border. The same is exactly true for India’s Hindutva fascism. Fascism has its robust diagnostic symptoms. The fascists keep a constant watch on their ideological enemies and show the virulence. If anyone tells anything against Pakistan, ...

By Sajjad Shaukat Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had won the general elections of 2014 on the basis of anti-Muslim and anti-Pakistan slogans. Since Narendar Modi, the leader of the ruling party BJP became Indian Prime Minister of India he started implementing ideology of Hindutva (Hindu Nationalism). Under his regime, various developments like unprecedented rise of Hindu extremism, persecution of minorities e ...

By Ram Puniyani This January 2020, it is thirty years since the Kashmiri Pundits’ exodus from the Kashmir valley took place. They had suffered grave injustices, violence and humiliation prior to the migration away from the place of their social and cultural roots in Kashmir Valley. The phenomenon of this exodus had been due to the communalization of militancy in Kashmir in the decade of 1980s. While no ruli ...

By Arundhati Roy Courtesy:- The Caravan magazine February 13, 2020 This is the text of the 2020 Clark Lecture in English Literature, instituted by Trinity College, Cambridge. Arundhati Roy is the first Indian writer invited to deliver it. Thank you for inviting me to deliver this, the Clark Lecture, now in its one hundred and thirty-second year. When I received the invitation, I scrolled down the list of pr ...

By Sajjad Shaukat n the midnight of 18-19 February 2007, India-Pakistan Samjhota Express train was bombed in which 68 Pakistani nationals were killed. A Hindu extremist Swami Aseemanand, a leader of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has confessed that he was involved in several bombings incidents. He also claimed to have been a part of the incident. In fact, ideology of Hindutva (Hindu nationalism) prevails ...

By Asif Haroon Raja The Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) in Lahore under Judge Arshad Hussain Bhutta convicted Hafiz Saeed on February 12 and jailed him for 11 years. His colleague Zafar Iqbal was also given 11 years jail term. 23 prosecution witnesses testified but none could provide any concrete evidence. The prosecutor maintained that Lashkar-e-Taeba (LeT) and Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) were two sides of the same coi ...

By Zafar Bhutta The Power Division has informed the government that running the 1,263-megawatt LNG-based power project near Trimmu Barrage on expensive imported gas, while ignoring other cheaper fuel options, would result in cumulative loss of Rs202 billion up to 2025. Pakistan has a long-term supply contract of 500mmcfd LNG with Qatar and the first review is due in 2025. At present, Pakistan has LNG-based ...