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Monthly Archives: October 2010
On the point of change?
By Zubeida Mustafa Source: Dawn THE tent cities for the flood-affected in Khairpur are now being dismantled. According to the EDO of the district only five remained last Friday. As I watched the occupants of the Indus Resource Centre’s (IRC) … Continue reading
A Beacon of Hope From Within
They are “ordinary people” with no claim to fame. But in their own way they are making a useful contribution to society and rebuilding their own lives. This is the story of Parvin who attended primary school for only three … Continue reading
A Beacon of Hope from within Pakistan: A Home-school in Karachi
By Zubeida Mustafa
Source: The WIP
Floods in 2010. Earthquake in 2005. Pakistan has been severely battered by the elements. Thousands have died and millions have become internally displaced. But even without Nature’s unkind revenge, life in Pakistan is not easy for the teeming masses who toil hard to feed themselves and their families. Poverty is their biggest adversary, and according to one estimate over 40 percent of the country’s 180 million live below the poverty line.
Yet in this gloom there are beacons of hope – many of them women – showing the way to people who are on the verge of despair. Parveen Lateef, age 40, is one of them. Her story reads like fiction. But fortunately, it is a true account of a woman’s struggle to change her life and that of her children.
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Language in education
By Zubeida Mustafa Source: Dawn A CLUTCH of letters has appeared recently in Dawn debating the language issue in education. A very sensible one by Fazal Muhammad Khan from Lahore published last week reads, “There is no denying the fact … Continue reading
Contribution of expatriates
By Zubeida Mustafa Source: Dawn IT was President John F. Kennedy who exhorted Americans to “ask not what your country can do for you…..but what you can do for your country”. This ‘do for your country’ spirit is very much … Continue reading
Richness of diversity
Reviewed By Zubeida Mustafa
Source: Dawn
PROF James Ron of Carleton University, Ottawa, complains that mainstream students in Canada are oblivious to the role of religion in contemporary life. He says that they achieve competence in secular politics but have no interest in learning the basics of different religions, even their own.
This is an interesting observation on Canada. But it holds true only partially for most young people in our society. Given the religious environment and our religion-centric syllabi, students pick up quite a bit of knowledge of their own faith. But unfortunately they learn little about other religions — even those of the minorities living in their midst.
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