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December 23, 2020
ISLAMABAD: Imran Ali, the prime accused of lynching Mashal Khan, a student of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM) over the allegation of blasphemy in 2017, has moved Supreme Court seeking his acquittal from charges in the case.
He has filed an appeal in the apex court through his counsel Syed Abdul Fayyaz, praying to grant leave to appeal against the impugned judgment passed by the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on November 19, 2020 and prayed that he may be acquitted from charge in the interest of justice.
The Peshawar High Court had upheld the conviction by an anti-terrorism court of 33 people accused of lynching student Mashal Khan. It, however, converted the death penalty awarded to a prime accused into life imprisonment. Mashal Khan, a 23-year-old student of the Department of Mass Communication at AWKUM, was lynched by a mob over the allegation of blasphemy on April 13, 2017.
âSwipeâ right for death sentence. A Pakistani film matches Tinder with I-Fatwa
Pakistani filmmaker Arafat Mazhar s new animated film âSwipeâ isn t far-fetched. It imagines life with an app that crowdsources death sentences.
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Just when Pakistanis were increasingly experiencing âfreedomâ, using apps like Tinder, Imran Khan’s âNaya Pakistanâ â now a nightmare State for women, minorities, progressives â blocked dating apps for their ‘immoral content’. The message was clear: you can’t use technology to date people, but you can use it to support and encourage violence against those who you consider anti-Pakistan, anti-Muslim. This is why filmmaker Arafat Mazhar’s new animated film,
Pakistan has damaged its universities beyond repair by rewarding professors with phoney achievements
Across the world, organisations ranking institutes have been exposed as inconsistent, changing metrics from year to year, and omitting critical information. Dec 19, 2020 · 07:30 pm Times Higher Education declared Abdul Wali Khan University in Mardan as Pakistan’s top university, although it is known for violent intolerance, not research or teaching. | Fayaz Aziz / Reuters
Over half a dozen international “well-reputed” university ranking organisations annually publish their ratings. They tell you which university or department is better than which other, both within a country as well as between countries.
Feel free to swallow their poisonous bait but do so at your own risk. These cunning ones easily take simpletons for a ride. At best, you will get questionable stuff. More likely, it will be meaningless nonsense or a fat bunch of lies.
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Over half a dozen international “well-reputed” university ranking organisations annually publish their ratings. They tell you which university or department is better than which other, both within a country as well as between countries. Feel free to swallow their poisonous bait but do so at your own risk. These cunning ones easily take simpletons for a ride. At best, you will get questionable stuff. More likely, it will be meaningless nonsense or a fat bunch of lies.
An example: from the website of Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities which ranks thousands of universities globally the department of mechanical engineering at Quaid-e-Azam University was rated 76-100 in 2017. This placed it just below Tokyo University and just above Manchester University. Wow! Thereafter every year QAU improved its score and in 2020 it jumped into the 51-75 range putting it under McGill University but higher than Oxford University. The reader can google this and may discover othe
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