KARACHI: After passage of almost 150 years, the Pakistani society has realised the importance of the lessons on equality, tolerance, cooperation and coexistence, which were given by the great reformist, philosopher and educationist Sir Syed Ahmed Khan...
This was stated by the chancellor of the Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology (SSUET), Jawaid Anwar, while briefing the media about a series of programmes which the...
As we approach the second birth centenary of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, he is being criticised to the extent of being condemned with renewed vigour from certain academic and religious quarters...
A speaker at an academic conference was snubbed for mentioning Sir Syed’s role in impacting the Muslim mind and material conditions in the aftermath of the 1857 war...
KARACHI: Popularly known as a reformer, educationist and philosopher, not many are aware that Sir Syed Ahmed Khan published an Urdu text, listing and describing several notable historical monuments in Delhi which was titled Asar-us-Sanadid...
To mark his 200th birth anniversary, a seminar was organised at the NED University on Friday that presented his observations on the cultural and built environment of Delhi in the 19th century......
ALL along we somehow had the impression that Sir Syed Ahmed Khan (1817-1898) was the establishment’s blue-eyed boy...
As he is credited with formulating the two-nation theory — the ideology that entailed the Hindi-Urdu controversy and led to the creation of Pakistan — we thought that Sir Syed must be the establishment’s poster boy for nationalism and independence...
SIR Syed Ahmad Khan, a prominent 19th-century Muslim scholar, thinker and reformer of the Indian subcontinent, is vastly admired for his sharp observation of the challenges that faced his society...
Yet it appears that these legacies have not received due attention as today, the Muslim societies of South Asia are facing the same challenges that Sir Syed highlighted over a century ago...
KARACHI: Scholars shed light on Sir Syed Ahmed Khan’s educational, cultural, social and political achievements on Monday, eulogising him as a great visionary whose services would continue to bear fruit for the Muslims for centuries to come...
They were speaking at the inaugural session of a three-day international conference organised by the Department of Urdu, University of Karachi, to mark the birth bicentennial celebrations of the...
KARACHI: The Pakistan Post Office has recently released a commemorative postage stamp of Rs10 denomination and souvenir sheet of Rs20 on the occasion of the 200th birth anniversary of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan...
The stamp is designed by Adil Salahuddin and printed by National Security Printing Company, Karachi...
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan was among them...
In fact, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan’s role in promoting and establishing Urdu journalism was monumental...
Its intellectual pioneer was Sir Syed Ahmad Khan...
Belonging to a family which had roots in the old Muslim nobility, Sir Syed’s prolific authorship on the Muslim condition in India (during British rule) and his activism in the field of education, helped formulate nationalist ideas in the Muslims of the region...
KARACHI: The 19th convocation of the Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology at the Expo Centre here on Saturday saw some 1,529 graduating students bidding farewell to their alma mater amid feelings of joy and sadness...
“Only eight per cent of our youth opts for university while 92pc remain without a university education,” he said...
10Pearls University, which organises professional development programmes and trainings, has launched an e-learning portal with more than 100 courses related to technology and management, it said in a statement...
The portal, which has been launched to facilitate learning and skill development for both students and professionals, will have more than 100 courses and trainings and will host more than 60 webinars in the first phase... ...
Senior educator coach Ismail Kadir from the Asian Rugby who has reached Lahore will conduct various courses with the first course starting on Wednesday which will be followed by rugby ready, level-I 7s and Level-2 7s courses...
The practical sessions will be conducted at the Punjab University ground...
KARACHI: It was in 2012 that a young National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa) graduate Sunil Shankar impressed theatre lovers with his intrepid undertaking of Peter Shaffer’s complex play Equus at a festival held at the academy...
LAHORE: The nursing staff of the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital lodged a protest against their medical superintendent for withholding no objection certificates (NOCs) of their colleagues who want to join postgraduate courses...
In an application to the health department, the nurses said MS Dr Waqar Nabi Bajwa, through a letter addressed to the principal of the Post Graduate College of Nursing Punjab, had requested to grant permission to the...
NEW YORK: In an open letter 50 Republican national security experts have warned that presidential nominee Donald Trump “would be the most reckless president” in US history...
The group, which includes the former CIA director Michael Hayden, said Trump “lacks the character, values and experience” to be president