Women’s Education
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Is Pakistan primitive?
An intolerant minority sets the menu for everyone, in a comment thread and in a country. For two months we moderated so carefully against Islamophobia that we let the confinement…
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Pakistan’s dramatic drop in fertility
X.T.M argues that Pakistan’s fertility fall from 3.61 to 3.19 children per woman reflects urbanisation, education, female work and social media rather than ideology or theology. He says religious societies…
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The Myth of the “Average Pakistani”
X.T.M rebuts a commenter’s praise of a ‘liberal’ Shia couple from Baltistan as unlike the ‘average Pakistani’, calling the framing patronising and a colonial hangover, and arguing that Pakistanis prize…
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Browncast Ep 35: Tahir Andrabi on Primary Education in Pakistan
On Browncast Episode 35, Tahir Andrabi discusses primary education in Pakistan, arguing the matriculation exam and a colonial system built to pick winners fail most pupils, while educated girls drove…
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Education is our birth-right
A Hindu report on a Bengal schoolgirl who resisted child marriage and now appears in a textbook, with comment that education and voting are the first steps to emancipation.
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“our prayers were answered when the French came”
Selects striking lines from young people, including Pakistani girls and a child in Mali, on girls’ education, extremist violence and the French intervention in Timbuktu, with the poster’s bracketed comments.
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Boko Haram “not unreasonable”
The author is angry that Nigeria’s government has not rescued the abducted schoolgirls, and mocks a Guardian columnist who calls Boko Haram’s aim to impose Sharia not unreasonable, arguing that…
