The writer is Professor in the faculty of Liberal Arts at the Beaconhouse National University, Lahore
Liberal arts is an important academic discipline for university students in Pakistan. It is also the only antidote to apathy currently prevalent in...
The problem with Pakistan is that it lacks the socio-cultural flexibility whereby any synthesis of different systems becomes possible
I cannot define Pakistani state in definitive terms; whether it is a nation state or ideological polity remains a niggling question to me
Seventy percent of the employees in any university should be teachers and 30 percent non-teaching staff
Gandhi was used as an instrument to elbow out Nehru from the national discourse
It will not be an exaggeration to say that very few of Ghulam Jilani Asghar’s contemporaries could match his erudition
For many year now semi-academics working mostly in the development sector have been hired to rudder the ship of higher education
One should not be surprised if Godse is enunciated as the biggest national martyr of India
An exploration of Godse’ re-invention as an iconic figure among India’s political leaders
The liberal tradition will have to find its anchors not in India or the America-led West, but in an indigenous milieu
Discarding English is not a workable proposition in Pakistan where 73 languages and dialects are spoken
We don’t have our colonial moment despite 72 years of our existence as an independent nation
The universal appeal of such stories can work as an antidote against the widening sectarian fault lines
Reforms are necessary to increase the capacity of state institutions and to make things more transparent
Structural analysis of various polities of the world leads many scholars and analysts to consider politics of patronage as the seminal feature of...
Is democracy the only choice?
A factor contributing to this situation is the rigidity of the rules and of the ideas supporting them
A nation state with so much cultural diversity can legitimise itself only through cultural mutuality worked through the process of history
There is no agreed upon national policy on higher education, resulting in polarisation due to the education being imparted to our youth
Anjuman-e-Himayat-e-Islam sought to inculcate a modern consciousness among the Punjabi Muslim bourgeoisie
