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Students' Union : a way not a destination

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Once Upon a time there was a Students Union # Students_Union_today_tomorrow_And_Yesterday It’s been 35 years completed on students' union ban in Pakistan. Today if you ask a 25-year-old student about students ‘union, he will get astonished and will stare you in the face because he has never saw such a thing in his whole life. He did not know about, that there were elections to held regularly in every college and university, every year, in which students had to elect their representative, and in this way a council was formed, which had its secretory and president and other designations, and this wasn’t just a council but it was like a small government of students which has to work with the establishment of the institution i.e. Head, teachers and other staff to organize co-curricular activities for students like Poetic symposium (Mushaira مشاعرہ‎), debates, discussion forums, Bait Bazi (Urdu: بیت بازی), Qirat , Naath and sport competition. Book Fairs etc., Moreover, disti

The Vote, and Democracy

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What kind of democracy , where literate and illiterate have the same ballot to cost ? !! Are both kind of persons sustain the same level and position ?  Has both keep the same understanding level to national interest ?  Has both the votes hold the same weight  ?  If the answer is yes then there is a big flaw in this concept of democracy ?

Ashar

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Pashtun culture is rich and diverse, with many traditions and customs that vary across different regions and communities. Some common Pashtun cultural practices include the code of Pashtunwali, which emphasizes concepts such as honor, hospitality, and revenge, and the celebration of festivals such as Eid-ul-Fitr, Eid-ul-Adha, and Jirga. Ashar is one of the  rite in which one representative from each house in each village takes part. Ashar is organised for villagers' personal tasks that are difficult to complete individually as well as collective tasks. This tradition is unique in that these tasks are completed voluntarily and without compensation. Ashar includes the following tasks often as grass harvesting, building a new house or demolishing an old one, filling the roof of an under-construction house, and cutting woods for food if there is a wedding ceremony in the village. The number of people participating in Ashar is not fixed; rather, it is determined by the nature of the wor

What ever ,but democracy , not the dictatorship

The solution to all national; and international problems mostly can be best solved via democratic tools and procedures ,which is long lasting while those solutions by army are temporary and disastrous for a nation. We as a nation failed to grow because we suffers from dictatorship and their lobbies in political sphere. These establishment lobbies are always busy to blackmail politician and get benefited in response.  Current we see that there is a big cold war going on between Army lobbies and civil government with in the country.  so, lets see who win this time.