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Hassan Shehzad

  • January 25, 2022

    The female warriors

    Having female officers at the frontline remains the most effective way of providing humane support services to the victims and survivors of...

  • July 13, 2021

    Sharing the high stage with men

    This week You! shares some inspiring success stories of female professors, who talk about their journey in the field…

  • June 01, 2021

    Riding off gender barriers

    To bridge the gap between the police and the citizens and to make public spaces safer for women, Islamabad police introduced its first ever bicycle...

  • April 20, 2021

    BE PROACTIVE TO COUNTERACT

    Recently, police in Rawalpindi have launched a hotline to get a grasp on gendered crimes and assist the victims efficiently. This hotline is...

  • July 26, 2020

    The Lake District of Rawalpindi: too deep to look over

    Rawalpindi Division is full of mysteries. If Murree is an obvious aspect of its beauty, Chakwal is the secret.Since the construction of...

  • July 19, 2020

    Beginning of a new Islamabad, modern and sustainable

    Hold your breath and hold your ‘vows’ back for a while. Incredible and unbelievable it ought to have been in normal days and more so at this...

  • July 14, 2020

    Have politicians given Islamabad up to technocrats?

    Usually, it is supposed that after elections, politicians come to public view only to put up their nameplates on development projects. Second, it is...

  • July 05, 2020

    A popular officer may not be a good officer

    Two things strike your eye as you enter Islamabad: green number plates of vehicles and green areas.Both these greens have different meanings to...

  • June 28, 2020

    A Hindu temple in Islamabad, finally

    As the country began facing the worst of financial crises last year, traders at Super Market would learn how to sustain business from their Hindu...

  • June 21, 2020

    Is 2020 a year of sustainable development?

    Budget, for most part, has been an exercise of fiddling with figures to most Pakistanis. All the same, it remains a reality they have to live with...

  • June 07, 2020

    Missing mayor and misery of Islamabad

    If Islamabad was ever in need of a leader, it is now. The data of death has never been so dreadful as now.Over 40 of its residents and over 70 from...

  • June 01, 2020

    Bearing the burden of bad decisions

    Consequences of some wrong decisions befall large parts of populations in a big way and in coronavirus scenario we have witnessed this ugly reality...

  • May 18, 2020

    Stop public crowds lest they grow into mobs

    Corona crisis has pushed the city administration to its limits. The tricky part of this art is dealing with crowds and stopping them from growing...

  • May 10, 2020

    ‘I don’t wear N-95 masks because my force doesn’t have these’

    Corona has brought with it a different lifestyle, new challenges and opportunities. Unfortunately, urban centres like Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi...

  • April 27, 2020

    The zoo of mighty players and their petty politics

    Animals have climbed down Margalla Hills and gates of walking trails have been closed to save human beings from them. Similarly, gates of Marghazar...

  • April 20, 2020

    Who owns Islamabad, its problems and its privileges?

    Life swings from hope to despair like a pendulum in the post-COVID-19 era. Elected representatives of the people are refreshing their pledges of...

  • April 13, 2020

    ‘Three Islamabads’ that live and die in one city

    This pandemic has drawn a clearer picture of our skies on a canvass of empty roads, which is presented to global audiences frequently. Not so...

  • March 29, 2020

    Azan in the quiet of night

    At a time when you hardly hear any voice from mosques in daytime, calls for prayer echoing in the stony terrains of Rawalpindi and Islamabad ring a...

  • March 23, 2020

    Survival of the steady

    If a survey is conducted to find which cities are responsive to corona precautions, Islamabad will be in the upper tier, I believe. Substance for...

  • March 15, 2020

    Choosing between the CDA brand and the brain

    Islamabad : As Islamabad is suffering from chronic water problem, this weak a journalist friend managed to get a water bowser delivered to his...

  • March 08, 2020

    Filling the leadership gap in higher education

    Islamabad : These are dire times for higher education. Among many challenges for this sector is the leadership deficit on the top. All eyes are...

  • March 01, 2020

    Islamabad and Prof Fateh Muhammad Malik

    Rare are the people in Islamabad that talk about literature, politics, philosophy and democracy. Prof Fateh Muhammad retains a prominent place among...

  • February 23, 2020

    Kites fly back to Rawalpindi sky

    It was a delight to see kites of all colours dotting the skies in Rawalpindi this Basant. Apart from one or two, no incident of aerial firing or...

  • February 16, 2020

    Is city administration populism?

    Recently, Islamabad Deputy Commissioner Muhammad Hamza Shafqaat held a poll on Twitter asking if fizzy drinks be banned in schools or not.A thumping...

  • February 09, 2020

    Gangs of Rawalpindi and their lucky numbers

    Over the past month or so, Rawalpindi police have put almost all prominent criminal gangs behind bars and recovered from them huge cache of...

  • January 26, 2020

    A welcome change in Pindi

    After a tumultuous year, Rawalpindi has finally got a new deputy commissioner, Captain Anwarul Haq.The garrison city has seen about four deputy...

  • January 04, 2020

    Deputy mayor meets Chinese team

    Islamabad : The custodian of Shah Allah Ditta Caves and deputy mayor of the federal capital of Islamabad, Syed Zeeshan Naqvi met a delegation of...

  • December 29, 2019

    Talking career planning with youth

    Islamabad universities have a considerable number of students from far edges of the country. Given an enabling environment, these students take on...

  • December 15, 2019

    A big no to violence on campus

    Of late, it has been witnessed that the volume of violence has been surging gradually. Usually, Islamabad is considered a cool city where...

  • November 30, 2019

    Living to learn and learning to live

    A fresh wave of student activism has been sweeping through the country. Its goals are very high and its definition subject to different...

  • November 25, 2019

    Pindi merits your attention Mr Buzdar

    Rawalpindi is fast becoming a mess. Last week, I landed back in Islamabad from Doha and was stuck at Faizabad, where people were protesting against...

  • November 17, 2019

    New master plan: Tryst with history

    The new thing in the recently approved master plan of Islamabad is the focus on promoting tourism through preserving historical places of the...

  • November 10, 2019

    Team Islamabad: panic begets panic

    Crowd management is a tricky business. Large numbers of people often follow their political leaders to Islamabad from all of its entry points,...

  • November 08, 2019

    Winning a battle with a sheathed sword

    Frequency to bring big number of people from all parts of the country to Islamabad has gradually been increasing. The city had organised protests in...

  • November 03, 2019

    Handling big crowds in a big way

    Islamabad has been a destination of big crowds all along and the one it is having right now, no doubt, is one of the very few biggest crowds it has...

  • November 01, 2019

    Looking at China as it is

    Brigadier Abdur Rehman Tarrar wrote ‘Cheenami’ to present what China in reality is, which is way different from the perception created by...

  • October 08, 2019

    A man with the potential to leave a legacy

    He was kind of burrowed in files that took over considerable portion of his mammoth table. By the time we were done with interview in hardly 20...

  • September 29, 2019

    Listening to Islamabad mayor

    The mayor is supposed to be the most important man when it comes to taking decisions about the outlook and uplift of the city. This, unfortunately,...

  • September 15, 2019

    Islamabad universities shine and rise

    Four of the seven Pakistani universities that could make it to top 1,000 universities of the world are located in Islamabad. They are: Quaid-i-Azam...

  • September 01, 2019

    A ray of light from Faisal Mosque

    If you think of Faisal Masjid as just a worship place, think again. On the back of the mosque lies one of the country’s most vibrant research...

  • August 26, 2019

    Are human values real or abstract?

    Rawalpindi : Writers at a book launch ceremony argued over the future of humanity in the wave of rapid technological changes.Author Hameed Shahid...

  • August 26, 2019

    Cloth bags beginning to become a capital sign

    Islamabad is a city of bureaucrats, its roads overflowing with mighty vehicles flashing green number plates. But you are amiss if you think that...

  • August 19, 2019

    Together we can, Mr DC

    Islamabad leads Pakistan’s metropolis from the front in launching positive initiatives, hence justifying its status as the capital of the country....

  • August 15, 2019

    Adieus Chinese Embassy DCM

    Deputy Chief of Mission Chinese Embassy, Lijian Zhao, has headed back to Beijing head office in China. He served his country in Pakistan for four...

  • August 04, 2019

    Welcome to Islamabad, dear students

    People from far-off areas come to Islamabad with their young children before start of semesters in universities. Most of them intend to take...

  • July 28, 2019

    What do media graduates cook?

    I did not recognise him at the first sight. But he did. Black brackets were set deep round his eyes where a flicker of past shine was still...

  • July 21, 2019

    Harnessing youth potential

    Pakistan seemingly sits on a powder keg. It has one of the highest numbers of youth population in the world, which in an ideal situation is supposed...