The repeated failure of public bodies to provide information and the Information Commission's inability to enforce compliance, raises serious questions about the effectiveness of transparency laws.
in mirpurkhas a 21 year old medical student fahmida reportedly shot herself at home. her sister says she faced harassment from teachers and some boys and a fake instagram id was used to defame her. another thing: even harassment cells in sindh universities are often run by men..
The best thing about Islamabad police is that no amount of public outcry over long, unnecessary queues and wasted time at barriers makes any difference. Maximum inconvenience is official policy.
Naveed Masih, a #Christian sanitary worker at the Punjab Assembly, went to clean MPA Sabtain Shahβs room before iftar and was shot dead inside that state facility in #Lahore.
His life was not disposable. We demand justice for Naveed and protection for all minority workers.
Amanullah Khan is the beating heart of the Quaid I Azam Universityβs History Department (Islamabad).
One could not wish for a finer colleague.
incredibly proud of him as he joins a constellation of authors with his first book!
It just released from Vanguard & it tells a story written in fire & blood about the borderlands of a fallen empire. Do get the book!
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If you are a third world public sector academic like me, you are going to get insulted a fair bit. The fact that you have a βfunny soundingβ name and work at an even funnier sounding place (like the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad) means that naturally the great and the good keen on βdecolonizationβ in the West and in your own neck of the woods, are going to assume you are shady if you can string together sentences in English as well (or better) than they can. Working at QAU since 2003, Iβve racked up a good amount of such experiences, and here are just the tip of the iceberg. Enjoy the post and do leave your comments for posterity!
1.A foreign academic writes you an email appreciating your work (now my life is complete!). They send you the article they wrote using your published research. Turns out in said paper they never actually cited you. Well, isnβt that a hoot. The thing to understand is that metropolitan scholars feel entitled to extract the knowledge surplus from local yokels, but they wouldnβt want the prestige of their citations diminished by referring to your sorry hide.
https://t.co/PoxOVKrrT8 send your paper to an international journal. Itβs a good paper. Based on fresh archival sources that no one else has seen. But your name is tough to pronounce, and you are from Pakistan (of all the places!). So, they put your paper through FOUR peer reviews. Not the usual two, but four. All four come back positive. I mean really positive. So they kinda have to publish your paper or look like douche bags. Some years pass and you submit another paper to the same journal. Their editors reject it at the initial stage and donβt send it for peer review (because they know they will get stuck having to publish it).
https://t.co/Gx3gEbbukw get invited to deliver a keynote at a conference. You agree as youβve just published a new book and think βWow, these guys must have noticed my moves!β A bit later you get informed that the invitation was sent to you in error. Well dang!
https://t.co/ZpJz7gai5q help visiting foreign doctoral candidates βdoing Pakistanβ. Arrange interviews for them, get them access to books and archives, take them around, make sure they have no trouble. They get their degree, publish their book. You get a copy, not so much as an acknowledgment of your help or, more gallingly, your university.
https://t.co/jTUN2TQ6w7 international publisher, noticing youβve published a decent number of award-winning books, solicits a proposal from you. You tell them, well Iβm working on this n that β macro history, theory, and all that jazz. They go silent. Then sometime later they email you to the effect that we donβt think your interrogation of ideas constitutes academic work β please hire a literary agent and get back to us if you want to publish with us (but hey, you are the ones who solicited the proposal from me!). The subtext being people with weird names working at weird sounding places in weird countries arenβt supposed to have frameworks or ideas of their own.
And as indicated, this is just the tip of the iceberg. I could fill a small book with examples like these. But then, who would publish it?
Bajaur, Waziristan and the rest of Pakhtunkhwa are bearing the brunt of conflict and state apathy. Mainstream media's silence and political indifference expose the facade of Pakistan's federalism. When will the voices of Pashtuns be heard?
The US never "wins" wars. It topples regimes, commits genocide, destroys economies, creates chaos, lines pockets, loses soldiers, and feeds global instability. The goal is never winning, but rather profiting off of death and misery, and to that end, it wins every time.
Itβs pretty amazing to see the four statements from Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and EU on US strikes on Iran side-by-side. The wording is pretty much verbatim, esp the first two paragraphs. They all have the same script.
BBC Persian says Iranians are fleeing Iran via the Armenian border.
The license plate is Arabic, and there's Hebrew text on the bag.
It's literally Zionists fleeing Zionistan via the Egyptian border.
What have the Americans accomplished with their nighttime strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran?
1. Critical infrastructure of the nuclear fuel cycle appears to have been unaffected or sustained only minor damage.