Cultural Diversity: Life in Karachi
By Rumana Husain Please note: This paper was presented at the Second Silk Road International Cultural Forum in Moscow, Russia on September 15, 2015, in the session on Cultural diversity contributes to...
View Article‘Seedy’ business
By Zubeida Mustafa COTTON growers in southern Punjab are facing a serious crisis. Their crop production has shrunk drastically. The reasons stated, among others, are poor quality seeds and severe pest...
View ArticleMagic of science
By Zubeida Mustafa SOMETIME ago, I was trying to teach Shaan, a teenager studying in a school in a low-income neighbourhood, about the rotation of the earth, the solar eclipse and the pull of gravity....
View ArticleSIUT’s philosophy: a rare creed
By Zubeida Mustafa I DISCOVERED the SIUT in the 1980’s when the private sector had begun to invade the healthcare system in Pakistan in a big way. My quest was for an institution that could meet the...
View ArticleA 40-year journey
By Zubeida Mustafa THIS week the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) is holding an international symposium to celebrate 40 years of its existence. The logo designed for the occasion...
View Article‘Asering’ education
By Zubeida Mustafa SINCE 2008 the Annual State of Education Report (Aser) has emerged as an annual exercise which is impatiently awaited. Mainly focusing on children’s learning levels in school in the...
View ArticleTurning point
By Zubeida Mustafa Every journalist has a story to tell. Teenaz Javat, by blood Indian, by bond Pakistani, by choice Canadian as she describes herself, and by profession a journalist, also has a story...
View ArticleAfter the assassination
By Rifaat Hamid Ghani Taking the assassination of Benazir Bhutto as a watershed, in what direction has the traumatized PPP travelled? One could say it parted ways from both its own realities and...
View ArticleRemembering Najma Sadeque
By Deneb Sumbal Sadeque Dear Mum’s friends, peers and colleagues, On this day, last year my mother, Najma Sadeque, left us so unexpectedly. Losing a parent is always hard, but losing a mother like her...
View ArticleJoy of writing
By Zubeida Mustafa CAROL Loomis, an American financial journalist, who retired in 2014 as senior editor of Fortune magazine, once wrote, “Writing itself makes you realise where there are holes in your...
View ArticleAn erratic coalition
By Rifaat Hamid Ghani Pakistan has done many stupid things within the rubrics of foreign and domestic policy. And joining a coalition of predominantly Arab states against ‘terrorism’ where the...
View ArticleLearn from China
By Zubeida Mustafa THE Sino-Pakistan friendship has stood the test of time. Although the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor that has been underpinned with 51 agreements and MOUs has been generating...
View ArticleUnsilenced voice
By Zubeida Mustafa JAN 22 was Perween Rahman’s birthday. Had she escaped the assassin’s cruel bullets she would have turned 59. But that was not to be and this devoted social worker, a friend of the...
View ArticleMy friend Naushaba
By Zubeida Mustafa SHE was a fellow traveller in our journey in journalism and before long we became friends. That was Naushaba Burney whose death last week has robbed many of us of a valuable...
View ArticleMemories: Tributes to Naushaba Burney
The Children‘s Literature Festival in Karachi ended on Saturday 26 Feb 2016. Where were you Naushaba? We used to be the two “senior juniors” in this event ever since it was launched by Baela Raza Jamil...
View ArticleLanguage myths
By Zubeida Mustafa LAST week Karachi hosted the Teachers’ Literature Festival — an innovative experiment — to introduce an alternative discourse in education. Here a lively session on language in...
View ArticleAfter freedom what?
By Zubeida Mustafa FOUR years ago, on a leap day, a young man of 28 walked out of Haripur jail to his freedom. Now when he looks back at this great event in his life, he describes his feelings on the...
View ArticleA Global Conglomerate of Oppression
By Zubeida Mustafa The pronounced lack of interest in the public health system in Pakistan is not difficult to explain. Public opinion in a country as stratified and uninformed as ours, is created and...
View ArticleTextbooks of hate
By Zubeida Mustafa PAULO Freire, the Brazilian educator and author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed, said education should aim at teaching students to think critically. They should work with the teacher in...
View ArticleIndomitable to the very end
Indomitable to the very end By Zubeida Mustafa A tribute to renowned journalist Naushaba Burney (1932-2016). Over 60 years ago, a young woman in her twenties walked into a classroom at Karachi...
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