UNHCR reports around 70.8 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, in its annual Global Trends Study. An unparalleled number constituting around 1% of the world's entire population.
This record figure includes an internally displaced population of around 41.3 million, nearly 25.9 million refugees and an approximate number of 3.5 million asylum seekers . Despite the challenges of…
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The mobility of Pakistani women outside the home is a point to be debated on, regarding the lackluster attention given to it. Women’s movements are restricted, not only by social and religious norms, but also by patriarchal figures. These well accepted rules against women and their contribution to the nation’s economy is part of the…
Illiteracy is a plague that has held back Pakistan from truly thriving in the global sphere. However, lack of education and literate professionals is less of an issue than censorship. Barring literary journals, magazines, books and other forms of press media is the determining factor in the developmental stagnancy of the country at large. The…
SUPARCO, or Space & Upper Atmosphere Research Commission, is the national space agency of Pakistan responsible for aerospace research, aeronautics and space programs. It came into being in 1961 as a research wing of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, and later in 1981, it gained the status of a commission.
Pakistan has had its fair…
“So the paradox goes: No man who is really ignorant is ever aware that he is ignorant. That is its finest, most faulty manifestation; there can be no true ignorance without first some claim of intelligence or consciousness, or superiority or enlightenment.”
― Criss Jami, Healology
Dunning–Kruger Effect is a type of cognitive bias but…
Mental health treatment practices in Pakistan are still not ethically sound. As the education system surrounding mental health is still a work in progress, it is not surprising that there is a lack of skilled and capable professionals. In Pakistan, there are limited universities which offer majors in psychology, counselling and sociology.
There are…
The US and Pakistan have had a seesaw-like relationship since the Cold War when they formally created a strong foreign policy on one another especially during the USSR invasion of Afghanistan. Officials and media in the US have warned that US support to Pakistan should be cut citing reasons of terrorism, meanwhile Pakistan officials and…
Something that you just learned about seems to be cropping up everywhere in your surroundings; it could be information related to anything which now seems to follow you everywhere that you go. Are you overthinking it or is it really happening? Is it your paranoia or is something larger at work here? We present you…
The role of the provision of education traditionally falls onto the state in any given democracy. This is seen as a natural and irreplaceable duty within key debates surrounding educational services. However, in recent times this essential role has been challenged in Pakistan owing to the growing private education sector.
In Pakistan, the education sector…
Revolutionary Hollywood director Orson Welles once said that anthropology may be the most interesting subject for a long time, and he stated that had he not become a director; he would have been an anthropologist. Many people who end up studying anthropology feel the same way about it. It may be one of the most…