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Raza Rumi- Commentary: IC Reorganization Requires Transparency and Inclusiveness in Decision Making ProcessesFor months, the Ithaca College community has been in a state of turmoil. The pandemic era has impacted every sphere of human activity including higher education. Within a year, the shape of IC’s present and future has changed causing consternation, especially among the faculty members. I have tried to keep up with the multiple conversations that …Raza Rumi
- Shanul Haq Haqqee: The Forgotten Literary Giant“Don’t know whose idea it is and what the target is. My personal goals have been very limited. Nor have I ever made literature my career or adopted a nickname. Adhered to hiding, never did I read poetry. Two letters of “Sitara-e-Imtiaz” suddenly became associated with my name with the patronage of Mr. Shafiqul-ur-Rehman. At …Raza Rumi
- The Spectacular Rise Of TLP And The Challenges AheadEven without a wider platform or broad agenda to achieve victory in the polls, groups such as TLP are poised to exploit the grievances of the general public Many Pakistanis – and the world at large – have been wondering how a religious group has been agitating for the expulsion of the French Ambassador from …Raza Rumi
- Will Sialkot Tragedy Change The State Policy Of Appeasing Religious Fanatics?The Sialkot tragedy should be a wakeup call for the incumbent government as well as the all powerful establishment. The brutal lynching and burning of a body in Sialkot is a continuation of violence in the name of religion that Pakistani state and society have accepted as normal. The remarkably widespread tolerance for heinous crimes and persecution …Raza Rumi
- From Lahore To Gwadar: Flawed Development Model Undermines Citizens’ RightsFor years, the local Baloch population has been complaining about their non-inclusion in the medium- and long-term development plans. Towards the end of 2021, thousands of people in Gwadar, Balochistan protested for their right to livelihoods that seem endangered due to the ‘developmental’ putsch in the southern port town. The sit-in continued for a month an […]Raza Rumi
- Pakistan In 2022: Hybrid Regime Will Unravel But Pakistanis Will Pay The CostThe ‘hybrid regime’ that has been governing Pakistan since 2018 became hostage to internal contradictions and external pressures throughout the year 2021. The year 2021 ended with a brewing political crisis and economic meltdown that was long in the making. During 2022, both these crises are likely to intensify — thereby resulting in regime change …Raza Rumi
- Civil Services Reform: Pakistan’s Lingering ChallengeThere is widespread consensus in Pakistan that the bureaucracy needs reform. However, focusing on the federal level alone and ignoring the requisite changes needed at the provincial and local level will not achieve the necessary socio-economic policy development results. In January 2021, the current government announced a set of administrative measures packa […]Raza Rumi
- Conversation On Book, “The Roots Of Fake News”PCIM and the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) hosted a conversation, moderated by Raza Rumi, with authors Brian Winston and Matthew Winston about their book, “The Roots of Fake News: Objecting to Objective Journalism.” Their conversation explores where the book’s dismantling of objective journalism—“a pompous contradiction in terms,” as Matth […]Raza Rumi
- The Intercept: Moderating Panel Discussion On Investigative Journalism, AccountabilityI moderated this event last week organised by the center that I direct – Park Center for Indepenent Media – and the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF). This was a discussion with Rodrigo Brandão and Sharon Lerner from investigative independent news outlet The Intercept held on Wednesday, March 24. The conversation centered recent stories … […]Raza Rumi
- Karachi Literature Festival: Panel Discussion On Fake News And DisinformationWe are inundated with information, so much that lines of truth, fact, and value have blurred. One has to dig deeper and do silting to get to what is actual. Who bears the fault for fake news? What is the agenda for disinformation, where it is set and whom it targets? What tools can help …Raza Rumi
- Commentary: IC Reorganization Requires Transparency and Inclusiveness in Decision Making Processes
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- Commentary: IC Reorganization Requires Transparency and Inclusiveness in Decision Making ProcessesFor months, the Ithaca College community has been in a state of turmoil. The pandemic era has impacted every sphere of human activity including higher education. Within a year, the shape of IC’s present and future has changed causing consternation, especially among the faculty members. I have tried to keep up with the multiple conversations that …
- Shanul Haq Haqqee: The Forgotten Literary Giant“Don’t know whose idea it is and what the target is. My personal goals have been very limited. Nor have I ever made literature my career or adopted a nickname. Adhered to hiding, never did I read poetry. Two letters of “Sitara-e-Imtiaz” suddenly became associated with my name with the patronage of Mr. Shafiqul-ur-Rehman. At …
- The Spectacular Rise Of TLP And The Challenges AheadEven without a wider platform or broad agenda to achieve victory in the polls, groups such as TLP are poised to exploit the grievances of the general public Many Pakistanis – and the world at large – have been wondering how a religious group has been agitating for the expulsion of the French Ambassador from …
- Will Sialkot Tragedy Change The State Policy Of Appeasing Religious Fanatics?The Sialkot tragedy should be a wakeup call for the incumbent government as well as the all powerful establishment. The brutal lynching and burning of a body in Sialkot is a continuation of violence in the name of religion that Pakistani state and society have accepted as normal. The remarkably widespread tolerance for heinous crimes and persecution …
- From Lahore To Gwadar: Flawed Development Model Undermines Citizens’ RightsFor years, the local Baloch population has been complaining about their non-inclusion in the medium- and long-term development plans. Towards the end of 2021, thousands of people in Gwadar, Balochistan protested for their right to livelihoods that seem endangered due to the ‘developmental’ putsch in the southern port town. The sit-in continued for a month an […]
- Pakistan In 2022: Hybrid Regime Will Unravel But Pakistanis Will Pay The CostThe ‘hybrid regime’ that has been governing Pakistan since 2018 became hostage to internal contradictions and external pressures throughout the year 2021. The year 2021 ended with a brewing political crisis and economic meltdown that was long in the making. During 2022, both these crises are likely to intensify — thereby resulting in regime change …
- Civil Services Reform: Pakistan’s Lingering ChallengeThere is widespread consensus in Pakistan that the bureaucracy needs reform. However, focusing on the federal level alone and ignoring the requisite changes needed at the provincial and local level will not achieve the necessary socio-economic policy development results. In January 2021, the current government announced a set of administrative measures packa […]
- Conversation On Book, “The Roots Of Fake News”PCIM and the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) hosted a conversation, moderated by Raza Rumi, with authors Brian Winston and Matthew Winston about their book, “The Roots of Fake News: Objecting to Objective Journalism.” Their conversation explores where the book’s dismantling of objective journalism—“a pompous contradiction in terms,” as Matth […]
- The Intercept: Moderating Panel Discussion On Investigative Journalism, AccountabilityI moderated this event last week organised by the center that I direct – Park Center for Indepenent Media – and the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF). This was a discussion with Rodrigo Brandão and Sharon Lerner from investigative independent news outlet The Intercept held on Wednesday, March 24. The conversation centered recent stories … […]
- Karachi Literature Festival: Panel Discussion On Fake News And DisinformationWe are inundated with information, so much that lines of truth, fact, and value have blurred. One has to dig deeper and do silting to get to what is actual. Who bears the fault for fake news? What is the agenda for disinformation, where it is set and whom it targets? What tools can help …
- Commentary: IC Reorganization Requires Transparency and Inclusiveness in Decision Making Processes
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- Trees of LahoreSalman Rashid Until the 1970s some one hindered and sixty species of birds were listed in Lahore. While the city had such green spaces as Lawrence Gardens, Aitchison College, the cantonment and Model Town, farm and forest on the outskirts began where Defence Society or Allama Iqbal Town and the innumerable societies now sprawl in […]
- The Lahore that I grew up in was a great placeI grew up in Lahore. All my life I lived here except for the seven years in the army and ten in Karachi. I returned again in December 1988 and have lived here since. I knew a Lahore that was a very beautiful city. It was a city of people who ere cultured, courteous and with […]
- Odysseus LahoriFellow of Royal Geographical Society, Salman Rashid is author of several books including jhelum: City of the Vitasta and The Apricot Road to Yarkand, Riders on the Wind, Between two Burrs on the Map, Prisoner on a Bus and Sea Monsters and the Sun God. He is the only Pakistani to have seen the North […]
- Lahore Metro – Pros, Cons & PerceptionsA state of the art metro bus system – brand new and unique in Pakistan – should make every Lahori proud of their city today. A lot has been written and said about this system. And as is the case with almost everything in Pakistan, the points of views are poles apart. Many people regard […]
- Lahore at its best
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