‏اکیلی لڑکی۔۔۔ نیندیں اڑا دیں ‏*سال 2001۔ NUST۔ مکینیکل انجینئرنگ ڈیپارٹمنٹ۔ ‏ پہلا دن۔* ساٹھ لڑکوں کے بیچ ایک لڑکی داخل ہوتی ہے۔ نام سارہ قریشی۔ کلاس کے پیچھے بیٹھتی ہے۔ لیکچرر گھور کر دیکھتا ہے۔ لڑکے سرگوشی کرتے ہیں۔ کوئی پوچھتا ہے “بی بی آپ غلط کلاس میں آ گئی ہیں، ہوم اکنامکس والی بلڈنگ ساتھ والی ہے”۔ سارہ مسکراتی ہے اور کاپی کھول لیتی ہے۔ اسے پتہ ہے کہ وہ غلط کلاس میں نہیں، غلط صدی میں پیدا ہوئی ہے۔ مگر ...

‏1. تھر کی جھونپڑی اور ٹوٹی چپل‏تھرپارکر، سندھ۔ ریت اڑاتی دوپہر۔ 14 سال کی نور بانو۔ باپ اونٹ چراتا تھا، ماں لوگوں کے گھر کام کرتی۔ جھونپڑی میں بجلی نہیں، پانی 3 کلومیٹر دور سے لانا پڑتا۔ ‏نور کی چپل ٹوٹ گئی تھی۔ ننگے پاؤں ریت پر چل کر اسکول جاتی۔ استانی نے پوچھا: "بڑی ہو کر کیا بنو گی؟"‏نور نے دھول سے اٹے ہاتھ اٹھائے: "باجی، کمشنر۔ جو حکم چلائے، لوگوں کی سنے۔"‏پوری کلاس ہنس پڑی۔ استانی بھی۔ "غریبوں کے خواب ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan Washington-based World Kashmir Awareness Forum (WKAF), launched a high-visibility digital advocacy campaign across New York City, deploying mobile LED advertising trucks carrying sharp and compelling messages urging the United Nations to implement its long-standing resolutions on Kashmir. The campaign coincided with the 78th anniversary of United Nations Security Council Resolution ...

Shared by Firoz Kamal Posted By Zaheerul Hassan The Pakistan Era During 200 years of British rule, there was only one university in East Bengal: the University of Dhaka. Even that, it is claimed, was opposed by Rabindranath Tagore and the influential circles in Kolkata. Even Dhaka University had less than one thousand students in 1947. The British made almost no development in East Bengal over nearly two ce ...

By Asif Haroon Pakistan has, once again, stepped into the global spotlight—this time not as a peripheral actor, but as a pivotal intermediary in one of the most volatile geopolitical confrontations of the present era. Under the leadership of Field Marshal Asim Munir, Pakistan’s military establishment has emerged as a key interlocutor between Washington and Tehran. Within a remarkably short span, Islamabad a ...

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai If promises were meant to be broken, Kashmir would stand as their most tragic testament. Few regions in modern history have endured such a relentless pattern of pledges made, solemnly declared before the world, and then quietly abandoned. The story of Kashmir is not merely a territorial dispute—it is a chronicle of betrayal stretching across empires, governments, and international ins ...

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai The world breathed a collective sigh of relief when a potentially catastrophic confrontation in the Gulf was paused at the eleventh hour. Hundreds of millions across Iran and neighboring states were spared the horrors of imminent conflict, and billions of dollars’ worth of infrastructure and human livelihood were saved—at least for now—by a two-week ceasefire between the United States ...

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai Early this morning, I received a call from a longtime friend—his voice heavy with grief. He spoke of the life imprisonment of Mrs. Aasiya Andrabi and the decades-long sentences handed to Mrs. Sofi Fameeda and Mrs. Nahida Nasreen and then, almost instinctively, asked a question that transported me back three decades: “Is Asiya Andrabi related to Jalil Andrabi?” The question lingered—no ...