Women’s Participation in Politics in Pakistan

GIDS Working Paper No. 06-21           Fareeha Zafar Professor Graduate Institute of Development Studies (GIDS) Lahore School of Economics, Lahore Anum Sami MPhil Student Lahore School of Economics, Lahore Abstract While the exclusion of women from the political arena results from several structural, functional and individual factors that vary in different social contexts across countries, the common […]

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NON-FICTION: TEACHING IN TONGUES

By Faisal Bari Published in DAWN on December 19, 2021 Reforming School Education in Pakistan and the Language Dilemma By Zubeida Mustafa Paramount, Karachi ISBN: 978-9692102346 330pp. We have a broken system of education in our country; not many will dispute that. An estimated 22 million youngsters are out of school, even though Article 25A of Pakistan’s[…]

Gender-based violence: A growing concern

By Maheen Irfan Published in The Express Tribune on December 19, 2021 KARACHI: It was in May 2019 (roughly about a year before the Motorway rape incident) that author Mohammad Hanif wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian titled, ‘Pakistan: where the daily slaughter of women barely makes the news’. In the article, Hanif said that so[…]