Game Shows: Silent Morale Killer
Television is one of the most modern methods of mass media communication which eventually has an enormous impact on the society. Unfortunately, the community itself stays unaware of the adverse effects of various television programs that are broadcasted. Behind the veil of ‘entertainment’ programs full of glitz and glam, a very different story awaits to […]
CRAZE FOR THE FIFA World Cup
The craze for Fifa World Cup is on its peak and the preparations are at immense pinnacle with the commencement date on the fourteenth of June 2018. As, this world cup arrives after every four years, the enthusiasm is raging among the fans and the impatience is rising each day as the dates become closer. […]
Conversation to Connection The Technical Loneliness
We are fond of texting, email and posting on social media more than conversation because these let us present the self as we want to be. We can edit and delete, retouch the face, voice, flesh and body to the extent we think is perfect. Technology is helping us getting away from the human relationships. […]
Re-defining Child Protection in Kasur (From Abuse to Amuse)
Kasur, known for the Sufi Saint, Bulleh Shah is a city and district headquarter, bordered to the north by Lahore, by India to the south and east, the city is adjacent to the Pak-India border of Ganda Singh Wala. However, in 2015, a globally doomed fame came to it’s credit by the child abuse videos of 280 children in […]
A 21st-century vision for our nation’s girls
Pakistan defiantly stood at No. 3on a list of World’s Most Dangerous Country for Women –right after Afghanistan and Congo – as recently as 2011, according to a Thomson Reuters Foundation Expert Poll. Excuses dressed as reasons abound. Surrounding them is a full barrage of threats, ranging from child marriages, violence, rape, dismal health care […]
Blasphemy, Social Media and Governance
We are living in exponential times; when the number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the total population of the planet, 2.7 billion searches are performed on Google every month, 47 million laptops, 1.5 billion smartphones sold and 40 exabytes (4.0×1019) of unique information is being put on the internet every year. […]
Digitization of Police in Punjab A right way forward Part-1
People of Pakistan are well familiar with the practice and culture of record keeping and crime handling in a better way. There has been no election in Pakistan in which each political party has not included the police reforms in their manifesto including the latest in 2013. Before 2002, the whole debate on the issue […]
Digitization of Police in Punjab – A right way forward Part-2
In the previous part, I explained 10 out of the 22 software that are digitizing the police in Punjab. In this episode, explanation of the other 12 is given. 11. IGP Complaint Centre (8787) Previously the complaints were received through post or a person had to travel to Lahore to submit his complaint in person […]
From Conversation to Connection
As the good people of this planet have become more reliant on making connections through technology, we have begun to ignore reality. Too often we choose not to engage with fellow human beings while growing ever more uninhibited by smart phones and other digital devices, even when in the presence of others. This excessive use […]
The Mars Mission
The Mars expedition, otherwise popular as the human mission to Mars, has been a subject of Sci-Fi since long. Many movies have been made depicting the human landings on Mars and discovering it to be livable for mankind. This one-way trip to Mars that everyone has been gushing on about represents the sole purpose to […]