Articles with tag: progress

The Explosion

kashkin dabruski Oct 21, 2009 interacts: 4

Every day I die,
Every day I born
Amidst all this terror and turmoil,
As the blissful peace shatters

Student Politics in Pakistan: A Profile

Nadeem F Paracha Feb 28, 2008 interacts: 130

Student politics in Pakistan has had a history of mixed fortunes and shades. Though extremely tumultuous, it is also a history of rich democratic traditions.

Science and the Islamic world --- The quest for rapprochement

Pervez Hoodbhoy Aug 2, 2007 interacts: 626

With well over a billion Muslims and extensive material resources, why is the Islamic world disengaged from science and the process of creating new knowledge?

A Strike Against Strike

Nadeem F Paracha Dec 26, 2006 interacts: 14

What is one reminded of when he or she sees things like unattended garbage dumps, blackened billboards, burning buses and broken windowpanes? Things more frequently witnessed during strikes.

The Gardens

Tabinda Bashir Sep 28, 2006 interacts: 5

I was mostly quiet as we made small talk. Salima was giving me time to reminisce and absorb that day’s memories for when I would need them most. In America.

Gurgaon Past and Present

indra chopra Jun 24, 2005 interacts: 15

The original Gurgaon residents continue to shop at sector markets, look at the three M’s i.e. malls, multiplexes and multi-cuisine as encroachers

India Through Pakistani Eyes

Pervez Hoodbhoy Feb 16, 2005 interacts: 626

Is India now set to become a science juggernaut, a leader of the coming 'Asian Century'? A nascent superpower of the East?

Avant-garde Pakistani Women

Zainab Mahmood Jan 24, 2005 interacts: 17

She is the young, single, career woman in Pakistan today. Living at home, establishing her career, with no excess baggage. But it’s never that simple. After speaking to a wide array of women, from diverse backgrounds, I learnt about where they were

Proud to be a Pakistani?

Ahmed Sadozai Dec 8, 2004 interacts: 258

Our leaders sitting in their big houses, driving their big cars...do not seem to bother as to what the future holds for ambitious students like myself who are made to stand at the end of the line at every job opportunity around the world because of the kn

A Waste of National Resource

Feroz R Khan Jan 28, 2004 interacts: 127

Currently, there are two distinct educational systems in Pakistan. One is based on the government of Pakistan’s state funded educational institutions and modern curricula and other one is based on the centuries old system of madarassas’ religi

A Strip of Road, a Bulb of Light, a Bucketful of Water

Harish Nambiar Dec 15, 2003 interacts: 28

We are getting reported in the US as “women are moving up in India” even in the notoriously backward and casteist cowbelt. This might be seen as good omen, the external push to internal determination for aspirants of mud and thatch paradises.

Free Thought is Key to Progress

Mohammad Gill Sep 28, 2003 interacts: 65

Aazadi-e-afkar sey haiy unn ki tabahi, Rakhtay naheen jo fikr-o-tadabbar ka saleeq
(If a person is forbidden from indulging in free thought, how he can acquire the skills and the right attitude for free thinking)

Development of Steel Sector

Muhammad A Niazi Aug 27, 2003 interacts: 4

the feasible steel-making projects based on Kalabagh and Nokkundi iron ores have been shelved, and the Pakistan Steel based on imported iron ore will be expanded