State of Corruption in South Asia 2000-01

corruption is unlikely to decrease in the short run

The Power of Ideas and the Modern University

Ideas rule the world, drive our actions, inform our beliefs, and unleash mighty revolutions. How must Pakistan’s higher education system change for it to succeed?

NTS: A Gateway or a Deadlock!

Getting admission to post graduate degree is becoming increasingly hard task to achieve, changing criteria, mind boggling IQ based practice guides, skill enhancing slogans by

The Driving Ideology Behind Al Qaeda

Bin Laden, a social oddball?

Taqatwar Ka-un?

World View and Expectations from Pakistani Universities

Dilemma of Mixed Unions

The marriages in which there is absolutely no compromise and accommodation regarding the individuals’ religious backgrounds, culture and cultural practices, usually end up in acrimony,

Texan Poker Bluff and Persian Chess Moves

Many analysts have been warning since 2004 against a planned US attack alone or in cahoots with Israel on Iran, one of the so called

Looking Towards a Brighter Future

Being born in a farmer’s family in a small conservative village of Punjab, I could only wish that her intelligence

Western Sitcoms: A Reflection of Our Society?

Our society does not encourage individualism or the ‘Friends’ or 'Sex and the City' way of life. So, when did our society become so accepting

Alif Bay Jeem Dal

Test your UQ (Urdu Quotient)

The IIT experience

You are surrounded by people who are very intelligent, very hard-working, very committed, and very competitive. It is a tough environment, and it is very

Nietzsche – the Overman and the Three Metamorphoses

The overman can only prevail when God (and the likes of him) is dead and when that age comes “which is to carry heroism into

Teachers and the Impact they have on Students

Each student will not have the same potential. Each will be challenged in some way. It is up to me, as a teacher, to find

Bald Angel

So manto despite being brash, outspoken, and intellectually honest and unihibited, did respect implicitly certain values, certain personalities, and certain traditions.

Daughters of Hajar

Hajar was Prophet Abraham’s wife and the mother of Ismael. Abraham took them to Mecca (at the site of the Masjad-al-Haram) and abandoned them there