Opinion
Pakistan's Vanishing Scholars: The Crisis of Declining University Enrollment Last month, over a steaming cup of chai in Swat, my friend’s cousin—a bright 18-year-old fresh from intermediate college—shared a decision that stunned me. “I’m skipping university,” he said, eyes glued to his
education
The Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) has directed all Islamabad model schools and colleges to establish book banks from the academic year 2026–27, in a bid to make education more affordable and efficient. Under the initiative, free textbooks provided by the government will be collected back at the end
education
School teachers across Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa will soon be required to obtain a licence to continue teaching, the provincial Department of Elementary and Secondary Education announced on Tuesday. The move follows Sindh, which last year became the first province to introduce a teaching licence policy. The initiative aims to raise professional
National
Corruption, lawlessness, and poor governance plague Pakistan, from biker lanes to hospitals. Can accountability and education fix this broken system? Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has ordered rulers to stop drug counterfeiting and did an operation against involved persons. The question here is what order. He should simply give a target