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Pakistan’s UK recruitment boom is over – what comes next matters more

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By Akif Khan, Tariq H. Malik
| The PIE News Verified
The era of volume-led growth in Pakistan's UK student recruitment market is giving way to a more disciplined and sustainable approach, rewarding institutions that invest in compliance, local presence and long-term relationships, argue Tariq Malik and Akif Khan. Pakistan didn’t just grow quickly as a UK recruitment market. It grew faster than the system could handle. In less than five years, the country moved from a secondary source market to one of the UK’s most important student pipelines.
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Why Pakistan’s Schools Fail To Build Thinkers: Obedience Over Innovation

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By Akif Khan
| The Friday Times Verified
After more than three decades of teaching, learning, observing, and unlearning across Pakistan, Europe, East Asia, and other parts of the Global South, I have stopped asking why Pakistani students struggle to think independently. I now ask a more disturbing question: why would they ever learn to? From school to university, our education system is not designed to build thinking humans.
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Bondi Beach Shooting Reveals How Misinformation And Old Narratives Spread Fast

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By Akif Khan
| The Friday Times Verified
On 14 December 2025, Bondi Beach in Sydney became a crime scene. A public space associated with leisure and sunlight was punctured by gunfire. Within hours, before Australian police had released confirmed identities, a familiar script began circulating across social media and partisan news outlets. They claimed that the attackers were Pakistanis. Some accounts went further. They hinted at links to Kashmir, to Islamism, to the usual geography of blame. This narrative did not originate organically.
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