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Furqan AliThe Friday Times |
Despite decades of reforms, Pakistan’s education system remains in a state of perma-crisis. In an era of rapid technological transformation, the...
Iqbal, in his famous poem in Bal-e-Jibril , personifying God, penned: "Find the field whose harvest is no peasant’s daily bread— Garner in the...
In its last meeting, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to cut the policy rate by 250 basis points to 15 per cent. Per the MPC Statement,...
“All art is quite useless,” said Oscar Wilde in the preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray. Indeed, it was once considered “useless” in the...
I was scrolling through my phone when a message popped up in the official WhatsApp group, sharing the latest minimum wage notification. The...
“Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.” ― William Wordsworth, The Prelude The UN's most recent World...
Pakistan's investment-to-GDP ratio has been enervating. At a meager 13.1% in Fiscal Year 2024 — the lowest in the past 64 years — the country...
We recently observed the International Day of the Girl Child. The day signifies the aspiration to have a society bereft of the challenges girls...
“There’s nothing like the sight of an amputated spirit.” --said Lt. Col. Frank Slade (played by Al Pacino) in the movie titled Scent of a...
“We are the hollow men, we are the stuffed men, leaning together, headpiece filled with straw,” lamented T S Eliot: the ‘hollowness’ we have...