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Sometimes, everything may not be the same as it looks. Even the world’s most powerful men may have many grieves and sorrows. This can be best understood by the story of newly elected US president Joe Biden. At the very start of his political career, he lost his wife and daughter whom he loved the most. This broke him inside. But he had to stand up for America and the rest of the world. Who knew at that time that this inside broken senator would be US president one day?

I have currently finished his book titled “Promises to keep on life and politics”. Starting from his brought up, schooling, and early life career; the writer describes many historical events including Afghan-US and Iraq-US war. The book also describes his struggle from an ordinary lawyer to becoming a senator and then Chairman Judiciary Committee.

Shutting down educational institutions only makes sense when you do the same to other places as well. When restaurants, markets, and marriage halls are open and gushing with people, what is the sense in closing down schools? We need a stricter and rational lockdown strategy.

I was in the Taliban headquarters in Kandahar, Afghanistan when the hilly region of Bamiyan fell to them in the

Four people have been sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) on charges of alleged blasphemy. One of them is a religious scholar himself and another is a former professor of a college.

Nobody has raised the question on the jurisdiction of ATC over such matters and no one asked how religious dissent (if any) can be equated with terrorism after this verdict? Supreme court of Pakistan once termed ATC as a parallel legal system, which violated the constitution and constitutional rights of people. CJ Irshad Hasan Khan equated ATC with “justice rushed is justice crushed” in the judgement.

The Pakistani Nation has the potential to perform in every field of life. But instead of such potential, the outcomes are not satisfactory because of multiple identifiable lacking in policymaking and policy implementation, especially in sports. No doubt, national sports bodies lack capacity and competence but the role of educational institutes like schools, colleges, and universities in the promotion of sports is not satisfactory. A careful comparison of Pakistani universities with foreign universities candidly shows that a lot of improvement is required sports policy of our universities. With candid and concrete policy, universities also need funds to promote sports by providing suitable sports facilities. Sports may be the last in the priority list of university management. It needs serious attention because universities are like nurseries to provide sportsmen to the national bodies. A proper vision, well-defined aims, and elaborated objectives for sports policy is the need of the hour in higher education institutions in the country.