Archive for March, 2010
Dissenting note Education for all by Dr Masooda Bano
1 March, 2010
Monday, March 01, 2010 Dr Masooda Bano The recently launched Global Monitoring Report (GMR) – the annual report produced by UNESCO to evaluate the status of education for all across the world – has again pushed the governments in developing countries and the western donor countries to make higher financial allocations to ensure quality education [...]
Religious violence
1 March, 2010Monday, 01 Mar, 2010 Religious holidays in the country are fast becoming marked by violence. Over the weekend, processions celebrating Eid Miladun Nabi in Faisalabad and D.I. Khan were attacked causing death, injuries and mayhem. Thankfully, the violence was quickly contained and did not rise to the level of terribleness that the country has unfortunately [...]
Dying crafts
1 March, 2010Monday, 01 Mar, 2010 The politicians who are so often up in arms over the need to protect Pakistani culture, and the threat posed by foreign influences, would do well to look into the state of the country’s cultural industries and the manner in which they are being decimated. Consider the ajrak-manufacturing trade of Sukkur [...]
Earthquake in Chile
1 March, 2010Monday, 01 Mar, 2010 LOCATED on the Pacific Rim ‘ring of fire’, the world’s most seismically active region, Chile suffered one of its worst earthquakes in the early hours of Saturday. Measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale, the tremor made some kind of geological history. According to one report the last earthquake of bigger magnitude [...]
Wounds
1 March, 2010Monday, March 01, 2010 To our utter shame, Eid Milad-un-Nabi, the most auspicious of days on the Muslim calendar, saw the start of violence, death and destruction that wracked Faisalabad and DI Khan. Apart from the question of terrorism that thrives on the ability of man to inflict pain on man, sectarian differences and tensions [...]
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