November 2020 marks 30 years of Pakistan’s ratification of the UN led Child Rights Convention (1990). At the very juncture, the 3rd extension of Pakistan’s GSP plus facility and its commitment to eliminate ‘contemporary forms of slavery’ under Sustainable Development Goals (Target 8.7), compels Pakistan to put an end to child labour and child domestic […]
The Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training, along with the premier, either fail to understand the difference between ‘uniform system of education’ and ‘uniform curriculum’ or they juggle the terms willfully to forge political deception. Right from PTI’s campaigning for power, they have incessantly talked about the problem of amir ka bacha and ghareeb […]
In simple terms, culture is a complex whole – encompassing language, world view, arts, attitudes and rites of life. Religion falls within the ambit of culture: not other way round, as it is usually perceived. In the last couple of centuries, right from inter-cultural alienation and universality of human behaviour, to the clash of civilizations, […]