Owais Mughal There was a time when passing intermediate/HSC (High School Certificate) with good grades could get you into a public university. Not any more. The standard of testing at HSC level is presumed to have fallen so low that not even public universities are accepting candidates on sole basis of passing HSC exams. The […]
Shahran Asim and Owais Mughal When we think of Urdu columnists, the image that comes to mind is of old men, always in shalwar Kameez / Pajama and resembling like poets. Sometimes (and not always) such columnists talk of their glorious past and also resort to sensationalism. We know this is a bit generalization but […]
Owais Mughal Have you ever thought of a situation where a policeman nabs a bad guy red handedly but instead of putting handcuffs he softly utters this verbal warning in very polite Punjabi: nayeen labhday laal gawaache tu matti na pharol jogia and the bad guy replies: gunah ka apne motarif hoon, ye iltija hai […]
