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Cyber Bullying in Pakistan The technology revolution has allowed cyber bullying to enter a new era.  The use of social media, text messages and chat facilities has allowed bullies yet another platform for tormenting their victims.  It has become known...

Many countries around the world are examining the gap between the levels of achievement experienced by different socio-economic groups.  One well known academic believes it is a critical social dilemma, particularly for Pakistan.  There are entire areas where the...

Punjab government has recently ordered a ban on ‘Tablighi Jamaat’, a religious movement that preaches Islam across the globe, in private as well as public universities in Punjab. This development has come in a time when pressure is building...

He was only nineteen years old when Imam Abu Hanifah’s teacher Hammad ibn Abi Suleyman died as the principal of the Mosque of Kufa, one of the very few centres of advanced Islamic learning in the caliphate. Imam’s own...

Haroon-ur-Rasheed, one of the most powerful caliphs of Abbasid dynasty, once saw his young son holding the shoes of his teacher while they both were entering a mosque. The caliph was extremely fearful to the young prince. The teacher...

Pakistan is a country – diverse, multi-lingual, multi-cultural and inhabited by one of the most welcoming and hospitable peoples of the world. Its geo-strategic location makes Pakistan a gateway to the warm waters of Arabian Sea for Central Asian...

Muslims and Christians are the two greatest nations of the world which constitute more than half of the human population. The terms ‘dark-age’, ‘middle-age’ and ‘golden age’ were first used by the Christians as they thought the time of...

A few decades ago if someone in school was getting extra-coaching in studies, that child was described as unintelligent and below average student. During those times such activity was considered to be shameful. Teacher was supposed to put his...

Einstein was often bullied in his class when he could not keep the pace with his class-fellows. When his teachers used to lecture him most of the time his mind remained blank. But he was courageously critical of the...

The other day young girls and young boys along with their mentors were lighting candles in the middle of a busy square of Lahore. They had also written some slogans on placards and were demonstrating a protest against the...