By Syed Afiat Shah It was a bloomy, cool and pleasant summer day, almost twenty five years back. I reached my school as usual. On that day boys and girls were being separated from co-education system. As soon as we gathered for the assembly, one of my male teachers uttered with a smile on his […]
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It is believed that women are the most sensitive part of a society. In all cultures of the world, women possess the identity of a mother, sister, wife and daughter. In the context of a backward area like our homeland Chitral, women are believed to be the most respectable part of society. This identity of
Chitral, the largest district of KP, remains cut-off from the rest of the country for six months of the year due to the closure of the Lowari top, the mountainous range of Hindu Kush mountain. As a result, majority of the population in Chitral remains hibernated for many months. During this season, they also suffer
BANNED for life — Pervez Musharraf’s abortive return to politics has been brought to a screeching halt by the Peshawar High Court order of April 30, 2013. Parsing the logic of the order is a delicate business: Musharraf has clearly committed grave crimes against the Constitution and the superior judiciary was a direct target of
Jan-e-Alam Khaki SECTS and sectarianism have been an enigma for almost all world religions, and the cause of much strife. Almost all religions comprise sects and sub-sects, which appear to be a historical phenomenon, quite common across history. More often than not, sects and sectarianism have posed a great challenge to world faiths, leading often
