Pakistan – A Day on Twitter
By Awais Masood
@UncleThinkTanki: Right now, conducting a round-table on ‘The Benefits of having both tissue rolls and water faucets in Pakistani Washrooms’ with @ColonelStrategicDepth and @AuntieNGO
@Colone...
Manufacturing Zombies
Writing textbooks for students who are in a formative stage of their lives is serious business. Errors and omissions on the part of the writers, due to ignorance or self-complacency, are pardonable and can be corrected. [...]
Students in Peshawar Help Victims of Terrorism
By Umer Orakzai
KPK is suffering from worst kind of terrorism; there is a bomb blast every other day. Recently a group of concerned students at the University of the Peshawar along with some civil society mem...
Quality Education Compromised
Quaid e Azam University (QAU) is recognized by HEC as the number 1 university in Pakistan. But it has some major problems which are undermining the quality of education. University’s resources are under tremen...
Documentary Competition at Islamia University Bahawalpur
By Sahaab Akbar
On 2nd January 2013 a documentary competition was organized at Islamia University of Bahawalpur by members of Executive Club DMS and the Khudi volunteers. The documentaries that were shown in ...
بین کرتے رہو
سرسراتی لہو میں اُکستی صدا کو سماعت میسر نہیں آ سکی
رنگ و روغن ابھی گریہ کرتی ہوئی آنکھ میں
نم زدہ ہے
(غزل – (ظفر خان
ہمیں دیوار و در کا خوف ورثے میں ملا ہے
ہے کوئی زخم شاید اسکی پیشانی کا تعویذ
مرا مرکب ندی میں چلتے چلتے جھانکتا ہے
Pakistani Talent on the International Stage
For this month’s issue of The Laaltain, we caught up with Gohar Rasheed – an actor not many in Pakistan may have heard of yet, but who soon promises to take the acting scene in the country by storm.
Let the Sanity Prevail
Last month when the domestic tensions were simmering because of Qadri’s long march, an untoward incident took place on the Pak-India boarder. In a series of clashes, two Pakistani and two Indian soldiers were k...
Kalash: Beauty and Plight
Intoxicating is the place,
In the shadows of Hindukush
Where gods worship the human worth;
And define dignity of their land
The Kalash called. The Kalash called
To show the colors of love,
Even in death, they ...
میرا فلسفہ ٔ حیات
(البرٹ آئن سٹائن)
یہ دنیا بھی کیا بوالعجب شے ہے۔ جہاں ہر کوئی ایک مختصر قیام کے لیے آتا ہے، کسی کو خبر نہیں ہے کہ کس لیے، لیکن کبھی کبھار یونہی ایک الوہی مقصد کی تلاش رہتی ہے۔
روزمرہ زندگی کے زاویہ سے ایک بات ہ...
(بدلتے شہر:لائل پور (فیصل آباد
(اسد فاطمی)
چناب اور راوی کے درمیان ساندل بار میں آباد شہر، فیصل آباد، جسے لایلپور بھی کہتے ہیں، اپنی تاریخ میں ایک صدی سے کچھ سال اوپر کی عمر اور تاریخ رکھتا ہے۔ تاریخ کے بسیط گھڑیال پر ایک صدی اگرچہ سوئی ک...
On Long Marches and Revolutions
From last few years an epidemic is erupting in Pakistan, the epidemic of ‘long march’ and ‘revolution’. Mostly it is the middle class which suffers from it. A blazing rhetoric mobilizes masses with a surging de...
A Tribute to Irfan Khudi Ali
Irfan Ali, with Khudi Ali as his social media alias, was a peace and human rights activist belonging to Hazara community. Last month, when two bombs blasts on Alamdar Road in Quetta targeting Hazara Shias took ...
'حادثہ ایک دم نہیں ہوتا'
ہزارہ نسل کشی اور فرقہ واریت کا تاریخی پس منظر
(الف-ف)
مذہبی معاشروں میں پیشوائیت کے اندرونی تصادم اور عام آدمی کی 'روح' پر تسلط کے لیے تکفیر اور قتال کے ہتھیار استعمال کرنا ہر مذہبی معاشرے کا تاریخی تجربہ ہے۔...