The Eqbal Ahmad Centre for Public Education (EACPE) seeks to foster the use of science and reason to understand nature and society and so better enable all citizens of Pakistan to participate fully in the political, social, economic, and cultural life of their society; to exercise their democratic rights and responsibilities; to value human rights, democracy and the rule of law; to promote cultural and religious diversity; to raise awareness of global issues and the natural environment; and to advance the goals of international peace and justice.
EACPE is named to honour the life and work of distinguished Pakistani academic, activist, and public intellectual, Dr. Eqbal Ahmad.
“The EACPE record is very impressive, and hopeful — a rarity these days. About the webpage (design), I don’t have anything useful to say. Have little experience that’s relevant. To me personally, the range and choice of topics is appealing and impressive. I can’t think of any useful way to improve it.”
— Noam
(Received on 5th May, 2017. As a member of the EACPE board, Professor Noam Chomsky was asked to suggest how to improve our main page)
Secularism in pakistan will only prevail when secular values would be developed through secular policies adopted on state level. The strong stratification among all citizens must be eradicated. The very first step to secularization in Pakistan would be to bring some fundamental modifications on it national identity cards, NICs that the state is suppost to issue to its nationals. It has to remove the ‘religion’ caption ON the NIC. Let every citizen be the citizen of pakistan irrespective of religion. Some necessary details need to be put on the card like gender, age, address, father or family name.
I have watched few discussion on ‘Password by Dr.Baland Iqbal’ on you tube before, from Rawal TV Canada. I am pleasantly surprised this gentleman Dr Baland Iqbal is a doctor of medicine but he is creating very intelligent dialogues.I strongly recommend these discussion on some national tv. I am very impressed with this particular discussion with.Dr.Pervaiz Hoodbhoy. As usual he is very clear in his views.I think these words are very important that human morality is nothing but acquired or learned habits.
hat off sir,for you
We should learn and teach our children that humanity comes first and we are citizens of this world.