Beyond Borders: bridging the North-South divide for Sustainable Development Goals
Exploring the North-South divide, particularly, how institutions and global expansion have kept colonial values at the centre of it. Institutions and global expansion have always kept colonial ideologies at the heart of it. Exploring the North-South divide and its impact on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals there is a need to address the control of knowledge, resource and vulnerable position of the South that is often exploited.
Unveiling the Invisible: Pakistan’s Data Gap
With only seven years before Pakistan must meet its Vision 2030, it seems there is a hindrance to its path. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires reliable data that is not only gender inclusive but accounts for other marginalized groups to be included to create holistic solutions to the country’s growing problems. Currently, Pakistan ranks at 128/166 to achieve the SDGs.
Culture of State Archives in Pakistan
In today’s world archives are considered to be a creative cultural technology that shapes memory Culture of State Archives in Pakistan Dr. Nadeem Omer Tarar Archives as an institution of the modern state has predated the British colonial state in South Asia. The...
The Past as Present: DIGITIsATION of the Punjab Archives
The archives are a nation’s and a people’s DNA. Access to them and their examination is the only way to learn from the past and progress in the present and the future. The Past as Present: Digitisation of the Punjab Archives By Yaqoob Khan Bangash History ‘is...
Ignored archives mean historical dementias
The question is whether we are ready to face an authentic account of history distilled through archives? Ignored archives mean historical dementias Zafarullah Khan We are not a society of record. Shockingly we don’t preserve our historical records prudently and make...
