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...
Archiving Pakistan’s Diverse and Rich History
CAP’s Team Contribution Merriam-Webster dictionary defines archives as both a noun and a verb, “a place that holds public records and historical material, a repository or collection of information,” and the act to file or collect such materials.[1] However, an archive...
