Lack of education, poverty, unemployment, religious fanaticism, law and order problem makes a deadly cocktail that let these kinds of things happen. A unique situation to the sub-continent, I should say.
Any country which wants to be a leader or which wants to be somebody in cutting-edge Science and Technology filed, it has to increase spending in the higher education. It is unfortunate that a progressive country like Pakistan is doing quite the opposite, 73% cut is a lot.
Higher education spending cut by 73 per cent
ISLAMABAD: Funding for the higher education sector has been cut by 73 per cent. Officials have attributed lack of cash and economic slowdown for the huge cut.
The government will now spend only Rs114billion, instead of the previously allocated...
Congratulations to the 'Slumdog Millionare' team. True to its name, the film was an underdog and sweeped the Oscars. I think stars and lady luck smiled on this movie, it was picked from a heap of direct-to-DVD movies by Fox Searchlight and decided to release limitedly in US and the rest is, as...
Without these brave people, the world will not be able to know what is happening at the ground level and things can go unchecked.
It is difficult to give security to each and every journalist and it may also hamper their investigative articles if Govt. snoops on their activities in the name of...
Riots after Shia youth shot dead in Karachi
* Rioters torch at least five vehicles, three shops, one printing press, a beauty parlour and a house
By Faraz Khan
KARACHI: Riots broke out in the city in reaction to the killing of a youth belonging to the Shia community.
Law...
'He saved me, but I could not save him'
Hamid Mir in Mingora, Swat | February 20, 2009 | 21:46 IST
Geo TV Executive Editor Hamid Mir, whose colleague Musa Khankhel was murdered in the Swat valley this week, asks why the media is being targeted in the area.
'The pen is mightier than the...