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News for Wednesday, 19 Jan 2011

‘Sustainopreneurship’ is the future

LAHORE - The LUMS Entrepreneurial Society (LES), since its foundation in 2005 has initiated several ambitious projects that inculcate entrepreneurial and leadership abilities amongst members as well as non-members. The...

Times are bad

Bad times can be pretty adhesive in nature. Wars, most famously, are said to bring nations together, temporarily cementing the cracks, brushing over the perpetual faultlines. Other calamities, like economic...

Flight of death

After the discovery of Qasim Siddiques school bag, allegedly from the runway of Allama Iqbal Airport, it would no more be possible to hush up the death of the school...

Politics and religion

Nowhere in the Islamic world has Islam been instrumentalised for the sake of political ends and gains, like the way it has been in Pakistan. This is because everybody has...

Liberal or not?

Pakistan is not a failed but a derailed state. Growing religious fundamentalism has mutilated its weak democratic polity. And the military has stretched itself to such an extent that it...

Arctic Antics

The latest news from the North Pole is that Santa has decided to trade in his red costume and sleigh for a yellow hazmat suit and wrench. A career switch...

13 Afghans die in latest roadside bomb

KABUL - A total of 13 civilians including children and women were killed Wednesday by a Taliban-style roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan, officials said. The blast hit a three-wheeled vehicle...

Engaging education

Education, irrespective of the content, has to engage a child, make him/her interested, and give something that he/she can apply and utilise to make sense of his/her world. Children are...

What Pakistan needs

At present Pakistan is dominated by intolerance, violence, injustice and many forms of extremism. How long the country can survive with such pathetic conditions? When fundamentalists, obscurantists, extremists, and terrorists...

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