In Pakistan Inclusive Education is suffering Due to “Human Logo” (mother of All Barriers)……….. In Pakistan many projects had been failed or suffering due to falsification of data. I witnessed falsification of data during the free typhoid vaccination campaign held by the Punjab Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department last month children between the age of...
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September 9, 2024September 9, 2024Columns
Great Face of Rural and Inclusive Education in Pakistan
“Leaders Become Great, Not Because of their Power, But Because of their Ability to empower others” Who is Syed Aamir Mehmood Jafery? Few days earlier, I attended the interactive session with one of change maker in educational sector. On a successful accomplishment of that activity the incentive was zoom meeting with the leader of inclusive...
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June 7, 2024June 7, 2024Columns
CPEC 2.0 and Regional Connectivity: Opportunities and Challenges
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), under President Xi’s flagship, launched the One Belt One Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, achieved marvelous progress, and completed Phase One with the work already started for Phase 2, also known as CPEC 2.0. China-Pakistan relations have always been multidimensional with a focus on every sector. CPEC Phase 1 focuses on...
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June 7, 2024June 7, 2024Columns
Beyond Diplomacy: Economic and Cultural Transformation Through Abraham Accord
A new era of collaboration and transformation has been initiated in the Middle East with the signing of the Abraham Accord, named to honour the shared heritage of Judaism and Islam in Prophet Abraham, representing a historic shift in regional diplomacy. Signed initially in September 2020 by the UAE, Bahrain, and Israel and subsequently joined...
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May 29, 2024May 29, 2024Columns
The approaching verdict
THE case against former US president Donald Trump is set to conclude soon. Once closing arguments by both sides have been presented the case will be handed to the 12-member Manhattan jury who will decide if Trump is guilty of the 34 charges of falsification of business records. These deceptions revolve around allegations of Trump...
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May 8, 2024September 5, 2024Columns
122 Years Only to Achieve Zero Maternal Deaths- Wake Up Pakistan
30 years of ICPD 1994: Pockets of inequality persist The year 2024 commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo, Egypt. It was recognized as an event of significant importance where 179 governments pledged to prioritize sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) as fundamental to sustainable...
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April 24, 2024April 24, 2024Columns
Transported to another era
THE structural foundation of the Roman Empire, history tells us, included the roads that were built. With this communication network, the expanding empire was able to connect newly conquered lands. It did not matter how disparate a culture or how unintelligible a language was to the ruling Romans; the road was the connection they needed....
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April 23, 2024April 23, 2024Columns
Transitions and instability
A CLIP from a recent television talk show is doing the rounds on the banned platform, X. In it, a journalist/ commentator discusses how rumours of a possible extension for the Supreme Court chief justice have cropped up time and again. The option was ‘discussed’ during the tenures of Saqib Nisar and Asif Saeed Khosa,...
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April 20, 2024September 5, 2024Columns
Empowerment is Expensive: My Unfolding Story of Social Entrepreneurship
What could be more joyous than to see some of the wishes coming true in your lifetime? Within the list of many wishes, a foremost and prioritized wish within my generation of crazy changemakers was to see the understanding of “social entrepreneurship.” Being a witness to a time when the mere word ‘entrepreneurship’ was not...
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April 17, 2024April 17, 2024Columns
Rising Temperatures Threaten Global Fruit Cultivation: A Shift in Orchard Dynamic
Environmental stresses pose significant threats to global food security and have detrimental effects on crop production worldwide, particularly impacting fruit cultivation. Abiotic stresses, such as rising temperatures, reduced precipitation, heat waves, and cold temperatures, disrupt the timing of flowering, fruit set, and harvesting, leading to decreased productivity and compromised fruit quality, especially in arid and...