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Reading for Empathy: How Books Can Foster Understanding in Today’s Youth

by Maria Khan

In an increasingly interconnected and diverse world, empathy is a quality that holds immense value. It enables us to understand and relate to the experiences and emotions of others, fostering a sense of unity and compassion. One powerful tool for nurturing empathy in today’s youth is the simple act of reading. Books, with their ability to transport readers into different worlds and minds, have the potential to shape young minds into more empathetic individuals. In this article, we explore how literature can play a crucial role in developing empathy in today’s youth…

Beyond Harry Potter: Lesser-Known Book Series to Capture Young Readers’ Imagination

by Usman Shah

In the world of literature for young readers, there are some iconic series that have captured the hearts and minds of generations. The likes of Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, and Percy Jackson have become household names, inspiring millions of young readers to delve into the magical worlds of books. While these series undoubtedly hold a special place in the literary canon, there exists a vast treasure trove of lesser-known book series that can equally captivate young imaginations…

Diverse Voices in Literature: Expanding the Horizons of Young Readers

by Zoya Ali

In a world that is increasingly interconnected, young readers are presented with a unique opportunity to explore diverse voices and perspectives through literature. The importance of diverse representation in literature cannot be overstated, as it not only broadens horizons but also fosters understanding and empathy among young readers. In this article, we will delve into the significance of diverse voices in literature and how they can enrich the reading experiences of today’s youth…

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Cultivating a Reading Culture: Strategies for Parents Everywhere

by Ahmed Raza

In a world increasingly dominated by screens and digital distractions, cultivating a love for reading in children has never been more critical. As parents, we play a pivotal role in shaping our children’s habits, including their reading habits. A strong reading culture not only enhances a child’s cognitive abilities but also broadens their horizons, fosters empathy, and provides a lifelong source of joy. Here are some effective strategies for parents everywhere to encourage their children to embrace the world of books…

The Digital Age Dilemma: Encouraging Youth Worldwide to Read More

by Farah Khan

In an era dominated by digital screens and constant connectivity, the habit of reading among the youth has faced unprecedented challenges. The lure of smartphones, social media, and video games has made it increasingly difficult to engage young minds in the world of books. However, the benefits of reading are timeless and profound, touching upon cognitive development, empathy, and personal growth. To address the digital age dilemma and encourage youth worldwide to read more, we must explore the reasons behind the decline in reading habits and propose effective strategies to rekindle the love for books…

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The Digital Age Dilemma: Encouraging Youth Worldwide to Read More

by Bilal Khan

In the 21st century, the digital age has brought unprecedented changes to our lives. While it has opened up countless opportunities for learning and communication, it has also presented a dilemma: the decline in reading habits among youth worldwide. The allure of screens, social media, and instant gratification competes fiercely with the slow and immersive experience of reading a book. This article explores the challenges posed by the digital age and offers insights into how we can encourage young people globally to read more…

Digital Age vs. Bookworms: Balancing Screen Time with Reading in Pakistani Youth

In an increasingly digital world, where smartphones, tablets, and laptops are an integral part of daily life, the age-old habit of reading seems to be waning among Pakistani youth. The allure of screens, social media, and online gaming often overshadows the quiet pleasure of turning the pages of a good book. However, it’s essential to strike a balance between screen time and reading, as literature holds a unique power to shape young minds and contribute to personal growth…

Reading Beyond Textbooks: Fostering a Culture of Reading in Pakistani Schools

by Sana Ahmed

In the bustling educational landscape of Pakistan, where textbooks often take precedence, the importance of cultivating a culture of reading is frequently overshadowed. While textbooks are undoubtedly vital, promoting the habit of reading beyond them can significantly enrich the educational experience and enhance the intellectual horizons of Pakistani youth. In this article, we delve into the critical need for reading beyond textbooks and explore strategies to foster a culture of reading in Pakistani schools…

10 Must-Read Pakistani Authors for Young Readers

by Ali Hassan

Reading is not just a hobby; it’s a journey that takes us to places we’ve never been and introduces us to people we’ve never met. In Pakistan, a diverse and culturally rich country, literature holds a special place. While there are countless books to explore, let’s focus on some of the must-read Pakistani authors who offer young readers captivating stories, meaningful insights, and a deep connection to their roots…

The Power of Reading: How Pakistani Youth Can Transform Their Lives

by Ayesha Malik

In the digital age, where screens dominate our daily lives, the age-old practice of reading might seem like a fading pastime. However, the power of reading remains as potent as ever, and for Pakistani youth, it can be a transformative force that shapes their future in profound ways…

Behind The Bars

by Afifa Iqbal

It’s been 33 days since I killed my dad’s boss and I have been in jail for a month now. Life here is much like the free world; just more crude. Power and money are everything in here, too. I lacked both out there and I lack …

Time for a Change

by Maliha Awan

It was a beautiful sunny day. The sun was brightening at its full and everyone was busy in their routine work. Mr. and Mrs. Aslam were in a hurry and were going towards the hospital. Soon, they reached there and Mr. Aslam went to pay the dues …

Innovation of New Technology in Education System

by Ammara Hanif

Can you recall any sort of gadget or technology in your school classroom except for a mobile or computer? But in this modern era, technology has become an essential part of learning for students and teachers because it has eradicated the barriers of communication and facilitates to …

Oh My God…..I’m a Mom

by Eman Tariq Mama

I want to get married. This was proclaimed by my five year old when he and I were lazing around on a random summer afternoon. As I got over the shock of having this conversation twenty years ahead of its actual time, a part of me, …

The Living Books

by Hareem Syed

I was never into reading books, it is still a hard nut to crack for me. I remember how I once tried to read that one romantic novel and every time I would open it, its pages would bring such a soothing mildness but with a lot …

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محمد مبشر انوار

میراث محمد مبشر انوار علم مؤمن کی کھوئی ہوئی میراث ہے اور یہ مؤمن کا حق اور فرض ہے کہ وہ اپنی بکھری ہوئی اس میراث کو اپنے دامن میں ہر صورت سمیٹے۔ آج امت مسلمہ کی بدقسمتی دیکھئے کہ اکثریت کے نزدیک ”تعلیم“ ہی در حقیقت علم ہے اور …

سیاق و سباق

رفیع الزمان زبیری

سیاق و سباق رفیع الزمان زبیری منگل 31 اکتوبر 2017 اس آپ بیتی میں روشنی بھی نظر آتی ہے اور اس روشنی کی تیز شعاعوں میں بہت سے راستوں کے منظر بھی کھلتے نظر آتے ہیں ’’سیاق و سباق‘‘ جمیل احمد عدیل کے تنقیدی مضامین کا مجموعہ ہے ۔ ڈاکٹر محمد امین ان …

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نعیم الرحمن فروغ

نعیم الرحمن فروغ ِ مطالعہ اور کتب بینی کے لیے اردو میں کئی اچھی کتابیں شائع ہو چکی ہیں جن میں نامور مصنف اور دانش ور محمد کاظم کی ’’کل کی بات‘‘ اور منفرد مزاح نگار محمد خالد اختر کے ’فنون‘ میں کتابی تبصروں کو آج نے ’’ریت پر لکیریں …

پاکستان میں قاری کتاب سے دور کیوں؟

صائمہ علی بی بی سی اردو

پاکستان میں قاری کتاب سے دور کیوں؟ صائمہ علی بی بی سی اردو ڈاٹ کام، اسلام آباد ادب کو علم کا زیور کہا جاتا ہے اور علم انسانی ذہنوں کی آبیاری کرتا ہے۔ تہذیبوں کو جنم دیتا ہے معاشروں کو پروان چڑھاتا ہے۔اور ایسا کرنے میں کتاب بنیادی کردار ادا …

کتاب بینی اور انسان ڈاکٹر ساجد خاکوانی

ڈاکٹر ساجد خاکوانی

حضرت انسان اور کتاب کا رشتہ بہت قدیم ہے، اولین معلمین انسانیت، انبیاء علیھم السلام، نے آسمانی ہدایت کو کتب و صحائف کے ذریعے ہی انسانوں میں متعارف کرایااور جب ان مقدس ہستیوں نے اس دنیاسے پردہ فرمایاتواپنے ترکے میں مال و زر اورجاہ و جلال و جائداوسلطنت واقتدارکی بجائے …

The important lesson of giving teachers respect

by Read Pakistan

World Teachers’ Day: the important lesson of giving teachers respect On this day of all days, Sunny Varkey argues that teachers must be encouraged, respected and receive proper investment across the world, to ensure that every child benefits from a decent education It’s World Teachers’ Day today – and we …

How to encourage students to read for pleasure: teachers share their top tips

by Read Pakistan

How to encourage students to read for pleasure: teachers share their top tips Here are some of the best ideas, initiatives and projects that teachers use to help students develop a love of reading. Photograph: Alamy.While students might trudge through set texts in lessons, how can teachers inspire them to …

Jannat Kay Pattay | Urdu Novel | Book Review | Read Pakistan

by Nemra Ahmad

Jannat Kay Pattay Urdu Novel by Nemra Ahmad Review by Mominah Ambreen (Student Ambassador of Read Pakistan) Introduction Every other human being on the face of this Earth is struggling, struggling with their own troubles and dealing with problems on their own. Some are strong and some pretend to be strong, …

Haalim | Urdu Novel | Book Review | Read Pakistan

by Nemra Ahmad

Haalim Urdu Novel by Nemra Ahmad Book Review by Mominah Ambreen INTRODUCTION Have you ever held an Urdu novel which you start reading and find out that it is completely based on fiction and supernatural thrill? Well, you should then. Haalim is written by the famous Urdu author Nemrah Ahmed …

10 greatest Leadership Books for Entrepreneurs

by Read Pakistan

Top 10 Leadership Books for Entrepreneurs If there is one aspect of entrepreneurship people want to get right, it is leadership. Because with the right leadership you can get your workforce to reach heights they didn’t think they could. And to be a good leader you have to make learning a …

Kids Aren’t the Only Ones Who Should Put Down the Screens

by Jennifer Garry

If you type the words “screen-free activities” into Pinterest, hundreds of results will appear at your fingertips. From nature-based ideas to crafts and science experiments, you’ll find enough technology-free fun to keep your kids busy for months. You can happily pat yourself on the back and …

Six Ways to Model Healthy Phone Habits for Your Kids

by Catherine Price

Photo credit: martinedoucet, E+ Collection/Getty Images There’s a lot of concern right now — for good reason — about what spending lots of time on smartphones does to kids’ brains. But what about us parents? Somehow, when we get caught up in worrying about our children’s potential …

The night I realized our bedtime read-alouds were coming to an end

by Kiley Frank

Photo credit: Kontrec, iStock/Getty Images Plus I consider myself to be a mostly unsentimental person. I don’t wear a wedding ring. I didn’t keep baby books. I’ve never gotten misty-eyed over the first day of kindergarten. It is an absolute joy to watch my children grow, …

Giving your Child a Smartphone is “Like Giving Them a Gram of Cocaine

by Jenny Hills

Nutritionist and Medical Writer Giving your child a smartphone is like “giving them a gram of cocaine”. This startling statement was made by an addiction therapist in the United Kingdom because of the increasing problem of smartphone addiction among teens. Spending long periods of time replying to messages on Instagram, …

Innovation of New Technology in Education System

by Ammara Hanif

Can you recall any sort of gadget or technology in your school classroom except for a mobile or computer? But in this modern era, technology has become an essential part of learning for students and teachers because it has eradicated the barriers of communication and facilitates to …

Our love affair with ebooks

by Read Pakistan

Our love affair with ebooks is over March 11, 2019 By Michael Kozlowski Digital books were once heralded as being a replacement for print and everyone in the bookselling and publishing industry were scared. It looks like our love affair with ebooks is over, primarily due to stagnant sales and a resurgence …

Book sales are up and physical books are thriving

by Natasha Frost

It’s a tale as old as time, or, at least, the internet: None of us are reading any more, the physical book is dead, Amazon has killed the independent bookstore, and it’s all only going to get worse. But this year, the story looks like just that—a fiction. We …

Do e-books help children learn to read?

by Read Pakistan

A recent US survey commissioned by the children’s books publisher Scholastic found that 65% of 6-11 year olds prefer to read print books even when e-books are available on tablets. In the UK, a National Literacy Survey found that children who read stories both on tablets and in print are more likely to …

7 smart ways to use technology in classrooms

by Read Pakistan

Sep 13, 2017 / Hailey Reissman istock Many schools and teachers have an uneasy relationship with technology: they decry its power to distract young people but see it as a necessary evil to be tolerated, or at least strictly limited. Fargo, North Dakota, third-grade teacher Kayla Delzer believes that technology can truly revolutionize education …

Children are meant to learn, not earn.

by Naghma Sherin Afridi

Nobody knows what happens behind closed doors

8-year-old Zohra Shah breathed her last after she suffered terrible injuries, cut marks on her arms and legs, scratch marks on her torso and torture marks on her genitals by her employer for setting birds free. She was taken to work by an aunt without the family permission, with more likelihood that her father was behind the arrangement. As reported by the police, the girl had wounds on her thighs which were consistent with sexual assault, and was also bleeding from her genitals…

The 2019 Best 5 Countries for Education

by Read Pakistan

In just a few decades, countries of the world will be governed by today’s youth. Their thoughts and actions will be shaped by what they know and have experienced, making education, in many ways, one of the best predictors of a nation’s future success.
The 2019 Best Countries for Education are ranked based on a perception-based global survey, which used a compilation of scores from three equally weighted country attributes: well-developed public education system, would consider attending university there and provides top quality education…

How to Build Your School’s Reading Culture

by Read Pakistan

25 Ways to Build Your School’s Reading Culture From books on buses to little free libraries, creative ways to spread the book love. Lindsay Barrett on March 19, 2019 The story that went viral earlier this year about the teacher who had the genius idea of installing a basket of books on…

Create a reading culture in your school

by Lauren Shapiro

Creating a reading culture in your school By Lauren Shapiro Time and time again, I find that the schools seeing the most progress with reading are those with a strong culture of reading that reaches into every part of school life. The striking thing about these schools is not just that students…

The magic of Whole School reading

by Read Pakistan

Nobody knows what happens behind closed doors

The magic of Whole School reading How to turn your school into a “reading school” – Drop Everything and Read! For fifteen minutes a day, everyone in school – from pupils, to the headteacher, to the school caretaker – drops everything and reads! Photograph: www.alamy.com Louise Kanolik & Ela Turker…

Closing libraries means abandoning society’s most isolated and vulnerable

by Read Pakistan

As mental health services continue to be cut, librarians are becoming an informal lifeline for people with serious problems A mobile library in Rock, Cornwall: ‘One day a week, my mobile library stopped at a small rural community based around a bus stop.’ Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images For most of …

A childhood spent in the libraries of Quetta

by Read Pakistan

Stories from an attic: A childhood spent in the libraries of Quetta Vaqar Ahmed In those days, books were written for either children or for adults. There was nothing specifically for a teenager or a young adult. —Creative commons Unlike the densely populated and highly volatile Quetta of today, the …

The magic of libraries

by Read Pakistan

‘The magic of libraries’: Why we need them, by Joseph Coelho Published on: 03 October 2017 Author: Joseph Coelho Author Joseph Coelho mounts a passionate defence of libraries – and explains how they really help our communities. I grew up next to the best library in the world, West Hill Library – my …

The calamity of the disappearing school libraries

by Read Pakistan

The calamity of the disappearing school libraries Debra Kachel Professor of School Library and Information Technologies Program, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania From coast to coast, elementary and high school libraries are being neglected, defunded, repurposed, abandoned and closed. The kindest thing that can be said about this is that it’s curious; …

Public libraries, e-lending, eating out and rasgullas

by Read Pakistan

Public libraries, e-lending, eating out and rasgullas Rauf Parekh COLONEL Muhammad Khan, one of Urdu’s celebrated 20th century humorists, once wrote that when a librarian complained that the number of visitors to the library was dismal and rarely did a book get issued, he suggested that to lure the readers …

The History and Importance of Women’s Literature

by Read Pakistan

The History and Importance of Women’s Literature By Adrienne Rivera. Women’s literature has often been defined by publishers as a category of writing done by women. Though obviously this is true, many scholars find such a definition reductive. What makes the history of women’s writing so interesting is that in many …

If you’re not spending 5 hours per week learning, you’re being irresponsible

by Read Pakistan

Why did the busiest person in the world, former president Barack Obama, read an hour a day while in office? Why has the best investor in history, Warren Buffett, invested 80% of his time in reading and thinking throughout his career? Why has the world’s richest person, Bill Gates, read …

The Value of Children’s Literature

by Martha Crippen

Giving children access to all varieties of literature is extremely important for their success. Educators, parents, and community members should help students develop a love and passion for reading. Not only is reading literature important in developing cognitive skills to be able to succeed in a school …

Why Reading Books Should Be Your Priority, According to Science

by Read Pakistan

You’re not doing yourself any favors if you’re in the 26 percent of American adults who haven’t read even part of a book within the past year. By Christina DesMarais CREDIT: Getty Images More than a quarter–26 percent–of American adults admit to not having read even part of a book within the …

Book sales are up and physical books are thriving

by Natasha Frost

It’s a tale as old as time, or, at least, the internet: None of us are reading any more, the physical book is dead, Amazon has killed the independent bookstore, and it’s all only going to get worse. But this year, the story looks like just that—a fiction. We …

HARMONY (Poems)

by Zeebat Iqbal

H A R M O N Y (POEMS) BY ZEENAT IQBAL HAKIMJEE GARDEN OF EDEN My spirit soars up to …

THE LAST DIVE (Short Story)

by Zeenat Iqbal

THE LAST DIVE Short Story for children by Zeenat Iqbal Hakimjee His income depended on going underwater. If, whatever …

THE EVIL SPELL- Short Story

by Zeenat Iqbal

THE EVIL SPELL Short Story by Zeenat Iqbal Hakimjee In the year 1907, there lived a witch in the village …

THE SILK CUSHION INN- Short Story

by Zeebat Iqbal

THE SILK CUSHION INN Short story for children by Zeenat Iqbal Hakimjee In heaven, on a cloud, was the …

THE DANGEROUS ESCAPE- Short Story

by Zeenat Iqbal

THE DANGEROUS ESCAPE Short story for children by Zeenat Iqbal Hakimjee Once I went to Murree, where climbed a …

Life of The Moon

by Zeenat Iqbal

LIFE OF THE MOON Short story for children by Zeenat Iqbal We’ll build our house on the moon,” said Sunny …

THE MAGIC OF CLEANLINESS

by Zeebat Iqbal

THE MAGIC OF CLEANLINESS Short story for children by Zeenat Iqbal Twenty kilometers west of the bounty road a small …

Poignant Page in the Life of Daughter of Eve

by Faryal Bukhari

Poignant Page in the Life of Daughter of Eve Short Story by (Faryal Bukhari) Her head is rested on window’s …

The Terrifying Trunchbull | Short Story

by Aniqa Mazhar

THE TERRIFYING TRUNCHBULL Short story by Aniqa Mazhar I know bullies can be terrible and they make life miserable, but …

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سمیرا عنایت

اقرا (سمیرا عنایت) وہ اپنے ننھے منے ہاتھوں سے فرش زور زور سے صاف کیے جارہی تھی۔ آٹھ سال کی …