Articles with tag: Search
Pakistan's Universities - Problems and Solutions
Pervez Hoodbhoy Jan 27, 2008 interacts: 198300% jump in research publications, nine new engineering universities with European faculty, 3000 Pakistani students sent overseas for higher-degrees...self-serving lies, half-truths and deceit.
Foreign Factor in our Higher Education
Muhammad FarooqiAzam Nov 18, 2007 interacts: 10Our whole system of education is working in such a way to produce good high-tech workforce for European and American markets. Irony is we do this at our own expense.
The Quality Of Pakistani Research
Muhammad Ilyas Dec 20, 2006 interacts: 9A first glance at the publication lists that are now popping up will lead anyone who is not a domain expert to believe that the HEC’s strategy of throwing money at the dismal state of higher education in our country is bearing fruit. However, a clos
Religious Conservatism and Science
Mohammad Gill Nov 13, 2006 interacts: 32Those who seriously object and obstruct the stem cell research do so on moral grounds. They know that the embryo from which the cells are obtained is destroyed in the process. Destruction of an embryo is tantamount to killing a human being.
Promoting Research in Pakistan: A Few Ideas
Omer Cheema Mar 15, 2005 interacts: 81This article was presented in National Policy Dialogue Series initiated by Virtual Think Tank Pakistan in collaboration with MoST.
Teaching and Research on India in Pakistan - A Conspicuous Absence
S A Zaidi Aug 17, 2004 interacts: 41One would have thought, that like other adversaries in the world India and Pakistan too, would have studied, researched, taught, understood and analyzed each other almost to extinction.
Needed: A National Dialogue on Science, Technology, Research and Higher/Basic Education
Athar Osama Jun 12, 2004 interacts: 8Prioritizing Science and Technology
Omer Cheema Jun 7, 2004 interacts: 15This article presents a few ideas about bringing positive changes in science and technology sector of Pakistan.
Moving Beyond Talk: A Roadmap for Quality Education
tayyab rashid Feb 17, 2004 interacts: 45This proposal provides a pragmatic mechanism aligned with the role of HEC (Higher Education Commission) as a supportive watchdog - providing reason, resources, and recognition for quality higher education in Pakistan.
Fishing
Temporal Jan 19, 2004 interacts: 20Thoughts strike alike the living and the frozen. Innocent or enigmatic: they provide the wind in sails, passion in emotions. The magic potion between irresistible dreams and impossible logic: thought. And thinking? One a wind and the other cloud?
Coins
K Anish Pokharel Dec 16, 2003 interacts: 7Why am I alive and not dead? I let my body fall freely, the eyes fixed to the sky. A big splash. And all my questions answered.
Warped
Samir Fayaz Nov 16, 2003 interacts: 3Breathing in and out still alive without a doubt between truths true to themselves trying hard not to warp
The Visitor
Quinton Zondervan Mar 28, 2003 interacts: 7If aliens came to Earth, why would they come, and how?
Under the Hill (part 1)
Abdullah Arian Mar 10, 2003 interacts: 8Do not enter, for you may not like what you will find...
The Case For and Against The Satanic Verses
Subroto Roy Dec 28, 2002 interacts: 33Evaluating Diatribe and Dialectic as Art
The Music Of The Song Of Life
Zeejah Dec 1, 2002 interacts: 18Everyone knew there was something seriously wrong with it
San Salvador
Quinton Zondervan Aug 18, 2002 interacts: 15The lander stood like a giant gleaming egg against the orange sky.
Search for Identity -1, Saeed Anjum’s Short Stories
Saadat Saeed Jul 25, 2002 interacts: 17The day you kill me.
in my pocket you will find
a ticket to Loveland.
Whose Iqbal — Ours or Theirs?
Zafar Anjum Mar 11, 2002 interacts: 182As if I am the traveler as well as the destination itself
Top Ten South Asian Pieces of Music
A J Nabi Aug 25, 2001 interacts: 214What to take in the event of natural disaster
The Virgin Bride
Nafisa Haji Aug 4, 2001 interacts: 234The idea of doing that with some sophisticated American bombshell...was paralyzing
The Evolution of Urdu Literature in the 20th Century
Farid Khwaja Jul 29, 2001 interacts: 63Literature is the narration of time
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - The Last Prophet of Qawalli?
Aporup Acharya Mar 10, 2001 interacts: 61A music lover describes, and traces the origins and reasons of his love for Nusrat fateh Ali Khan and the genre of qawwali
Last Orders
Kamal K Jabbar May 31, 2000 interacts: 4I sense your distant presence as a sign declares ‘standing room only’...
Touch
A Shiraz May 25, 2000 interacts: 29In the West, by the way, that is where our son will eventually go to study...they brutally electrocute an animal to death...
Vanishing Point
Sheldon Pacotti Sep 8, 1998 interacts: 2... if by chance our lives, unmolested, had been allowed to continue
The Life Hereafter
A Sheraz Jun 3, 1998 interacts: 5And just when we shelter under death, life comes at us sideways
Calligraphy of Coils
Rehan Ansari and Rajinder S Pal May 11, 1998 interacts: 1A conversation with Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali
The Friend
Syed Amir Husain May 5, 1998 interacts: 1To those who think in worldly terms
This search confounds all reason....
Azadi
Sheldon Pacotti Mar 24, 1998 interacts: 5A woman in Tehran intervenes when her husband becomes a smuggler of alcohol
As Long As It Does Not Affect You
Umair A Khan Oct 23, 1997 interacts: 5So a woman needs to get married but a man doesn’t?
Akbar’s Hospital
Ardeshir Minwalla Oct 16, 1997 interacts: 3Old Akbar...He had followed the exodus out of his country in search of the fabled streets paved with gold and silver. What has the poor guy found? A new life in Toronto...
Reminisce
Kenyan Aug 8, 1997 interacts: 1Our first entry in The Leafy Glade Inn’s Victorian Study, is one in which the author softly remembers people in a place far, far away in the past.
