By Zubeida Mustafa
UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report, launched recently, points to a basic flaw in the education systems of South Asia. It is the inequity that the fast-growing private sector in education has spawned. The GEM report does not say it in so many words but the fact is that inequity is stratifying society itself.
Continue reading Society stratifiedby Zubeida Mustafa
IF the floods were a natural calamity, Pakistan’s population explosion is no less than a man-made disaster. Dr Shershah Syed, a well-known gynaecologist, estimates that there are 75,000 pregnant women in Sindh’s flood-affected areas who need antenatal care.
Continue reading Art of listeningKarachi, October 13, 2022 — In August and September, the southern Pakistani regions of Sindh and Balochistan received extraordinarily heavy rains following an unusually hot summer. Soon thereafter came devastating floods, caused by the rains and also the accelerating melting of the glaciers in the country’s mountainous northern areas of Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Continue reading Crisis in Pakistan: After the Delugeکالم: زبیدہ مصطفیٰ
پاکستان میں بہت سی ایسی ٹیکنالوجیز، ترقی کے نام سے درآمد کی گئی ہیں، جو یہاں استعمال بھی نہیں ہو سکتیں کیونکہ وہ یہاں کے حالات سے مطابقت نہیں رکھتیں
Continue reading ترقی کا تصور یکساں نہیں ہوتاBy Zubeida Mustafa
PROF Alexander Key was spot on when he suggested in his talk at a private university in Karachi that students should be offered more options in the field of liberal arts to teach them to think in multiple ways about the world.
Continue reading Liberal arts tabooby Zubeida Mustafa
THE magnitude of the flood calamity notwithstanding, there is hope on the horizon. The flood has exposed the farce of education in rural Sindh. Now we also know it is a myth created by the authorities that parents do not want to send their children to school.
Continue reading Calamity & schoolsby Zubeida Mustafa
HATS off to all special children and their parents. I hold them in great admiration, the first for their patience in facing their challenges uncomplainingly, and the second for giving unconditional love and care to their special offspring, seeking absolutely nothing in return.
Continue reading Special childrenکالم: زبیدہ مصطفیٰ
سندھ اور بلوچستان کے حالیہ سیلاب میں پاکستان کے صحت عامہ کے نظام کی خوبیاں اور بد عنوانیاں ابھر کر سامنے آئیں۔ میں نے بہت سے دوست احباب سے امدادی کارروائیوں کے متعلق بھی مختلف شکایات سُنیں۔
لیکن کسی نے طبی کارکردگی پر کوئی بھی منفی لفظ نہیں کہا بلکہ کافی لوگوں سے خلاف توقع تعریف سنی۔ عام تاثر کے بر خلاف، جو بات عیاں ہوئی وہ یہ تھی کہ ملک میں آج بھی بہت سے ایسے طبیب پائے جاتے ہیں، جن کے دل میں سیلاب زدگان کی خدمت اور انسانی ہمدردی کا جذبہ موجود ہے۔ اُنہوں نے بیماروں اور زخمیوں کی بے لوث خدمت کی اور صحیح معنوں میں ان کے زخموں پر مرہم رکھا۔
Continue reading پاکستان کا منفرد سرکاری ہسپتالBy Zubeida Mustafa
THE deluge in Pakistan has devastated Sindh, Balochistan and parts of Punjab. The accounts that have been pouring in are overwhelming. It is beyond my imagination to even visualise the magnitude of the tragedy.
Continue reading Flood aftermathBy Rifaat Hamid Ghani
IMRAN Khan warned the nation he would be even more menacing in political opposition than in office as the incumbent PM. That seems true: But menacing to what? Possibly to things other than he intends. There is cause for alarm in the way Imran Khan is responding to personal and political challenges to his determining national destiny. We draw in our breath at the crowds the former PM attracts at his jalsas despite having failed to get the numbers required to defeat a vote of no confidence moved in 2018’s electorally mandated Parliament a few months ago. His personal political popularity appears to have increased on the streets. What does this signify about the PTI’s role in Pakistan’s parliamentary democracy?
Continue reading Worse and Worse