By Bushra Zulfiqar  Globalization has yielded a series of intensified, entrenched and complex processes of economic, social and spatial restructuring of the world. It has differentiated outcomes for people depending upon their geography, social, spatial and ideological contexts. Analysing globalization stretches over multiple layers of economic, social, cultural and political realms. It is not possible [...]

I was up in the lush greens of Nathia Gali undergoing a management course when rains started after weeks of scorching heat in Pakistan. Initially an enjoyable and much awaited gift of nature, I celebrated with friends and colleagues over tea and steaming pakoras. Little did I know that within the next few hours, it [...]

By Bushra Zulfiqar The last two decades have witnessed an increasing emphasis on women’s empowerment as gender has moved at the centre of contemporary development debates. International commitments like the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) have brought women’s empowerment as an extremely [...]

Education is not only the path towards economic development and social progress but it essentially is also the push factor towards human excellence and intellectual liberation. It is the art of knowledge creation and the pursuit of unraveling the ultimate truths of universe, which intensely captivates human intellect. Education, if looked at objectively is the [...]

By Bushra Zulfiqar ‘Misfortunes come not alone, they come in battalions and this time it is a whole army.’ Issues are many, issues are inter-twined and complex. One feels unable to flag the highest priority dilemma in today’s Pakistan because everything has sort of crept up together, from increased militancy and terrorism to the Kerry-Lugar [...]

By Bushra Zulfiqar As I entered the bustling city, high red minarets of Baadshahi Mosque instantly captivated my attention. This was Lahore, the heart of Pakistan on an early October afternoon. Scorching heat and humidity was still in and out of the air, thanks to the globally warmed and heated climate. As our car passed [...]

This article points towards the explicit way terrorism has bonded Pakistanis globally…quite an irony which is at the same a potential opprotunity!