Muslim Female Teachers are not behind
From the Blog iabhopal U.K.-based VArkey Foundation set up an annual Global Teacher Prize competition which honors an exceptional teacher who has made an outstanding contribution to the profession. The winner will receive a $1 million prize at an awards ceremony in March. Out of the short listed top 10 teachers, 4 are ladies including the following: (To see all the 10 click here) *A female Pakistani teacher*, Aqeela Asifi trained as a teacher when education in Afghanistan was free to all. She had arrived as a refugee at the Kot Chandana camp in Punjab (Pakistan) during 1992. The place had no operational schools in the area and strongly conservative attitudes meant the education of girls was frowned upon and female teachers were unheard of. Aqeela Asifi set up a school in a borrowed tent and worked hapakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
India/Pakistan: Sedition and blasphemy – Southasia’s déjà vu
From the Blog beenasarwar *Something I wrote last month about how sedition and blasphemy are the two sides of the same hyper-nationalist coin in India and Pakistan. Updated after the tragic bombing at a park in Lahore on Easter Sunday, published in Himal Southasian on March 30, 2016. * [image: People vote in the February 2008 elections in Lahore Photo: Wikimedia Commons / boellstiftung - Flickr] *People vote in the February 2008 elections in Lahore Photo: Wikimedia Commons / boellstiftung – Flickr* From Pakistan there is mixed news. Recent headlines on the country juxtaposed with news from India prompts the thought that the kind of fascism that Pakistanis have been fighting against is now erupting across India. The encouraging news from Pakistan includes its second award at the Oscars, the execution pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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