Amar Jaleelâs 2017 freedom of expression comments attract right-wing anger
Sindhi writer read out short story to make his point SAMAA | Web desk - Posted: Apr 4, 2021 | Last Updated: 13 hours ago SAMAA | Web desk Posted: Apr 4, 2021 | Last Updated: 13 hours ago
Photo: Sindh Literature Festival 2017/Ali Gohar Langah
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A four-year-old 2:18 minute video of Sindhi writer Amar Jaleel reading one of his short stories to demonstrate a point about the lack of freedom of expression in Pakistan at a literature festival has attracted the ire of rightwing circles with one cleric openly calling for him to be murdered by offering millions of rupees in head money.
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Single national curriculum censured at Sindh Literature Festival
Karachi
March 15, 2021
Unscientific approach of the syllabus and controlled curriculum have adverse effects on society, due to which students do not acquire the required knowledge to compete in the modern world.
The federal government wants to impose religious studies on students as part of the single national curriculum, after which students of madrasas and schools will be studying the same books. Inaccurate history is being taught at schools, and warriors are being glorified instead of local heroes who served humanity.
These views were expressed on the second day of the three-day Sindh Literature Festival during a session titled ‘Hum Bachchon Ko Kya Parha Rahay Hain’ (What we have been teaching children). It was moderated by the Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science & Technology’s Faculty of Social Sciences Dean Prof Dr Riaz Ahmed Shaikh.
A talk on hurdles in quest of democracy
Karachi
March 15, 2021
The audience in the Jaun Elia Lawn of the Karachi Arts Council relished former Senate chairman Raza Rabbani’s response after journalist Mazhar Abbas asked him who “basically” within his Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) had opposed his nomination against Sadiq Sanjrani in 2018 for three more years. Rabbani smilingly replied: “Just my luck!” And then everyone laughed together.
They were present on the stage to conduct a session titled ‘In Quest of Democracy’ as part of the Sindh Literature Festival on Sunday afternoon.
Abbas started off the discussion by throwing a question at Rabbani that whether what they did to Federal Finance Minister Hafeez Sheikh during the Senate elections had happened to them during the voting for the chairmanship of the upper house.
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