Tug of War: The crisis between the US and IranBy: M. Abul Hascham Barkhaya on January 18, 2020The beginning of a new decade was convulsive because an elected snollygoster president of the United States (US) ordered the assassination of the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds force, which further exacerbated the already turbulent situation in the Middle East. As a retaliation, Iran fired multiple ballistic missiles on two airbases […]
The Advantages of Being a Woman in Todays’ WorkforceBy: Lamia Sameen Malik on January 17, 2020An increasing number of well-recognized organizations like IBM, General Motors, and The Hershey Company are employing female CEOs as the trend towards women in leadership positions seems to be on the rise. As a matter of fact, there are more women running Fortune 500 businesses at the moment than at any point in the 63-year […]
Is climate change bringing us to the verge of apocalypse?By: Zehra Batool on January 17, 2020Pakistan continues to be the most affected country by climate change. Despite the endless efforts to spread awareness, we tend to ignore its extremity which has led to worsening consequences. Climate change is massively threatening to the lives of Pakistan’s population, and as a matter of fact, people in different parts of our country are […]
A Government Prone to AmbiguitiesBy: Nouman Muhib Kakakhel on January 16, 2020Pakistan Army (Amendment) Act, 2020 regarding re-appointment/ extension of Chief of Army Staff was received with open arms and passed without hurdles by members of both lower and upper house of the parliament and become an act by getting Presidential assent. All this happened after Supreme Court of Pakistan in a case challenging extension of […]
Dealing with Educational Poverty: A Nobel ApproachBy: Nadia Hassan on January 16, 2020Educational poverty is most prevalent among the several diverse forms of poverty. It is the one that originates and amplifies the other issues for the poor, such as lack of opportunities, awareness, discrimination and so on. Therefore, development theory has declared this a fundamental factor contributing to poverty as a whole. Other forms of poverty […]
Remittance: A tax saving instrumentBy: Fatima Tariq on January 15, 2020Tax planning is the technique of forecasting the tax liability and reducing it to the minimum. Income Tax planning, therefore, is considered as an organization of financial matters of someone in such a way that no legal procedures or laws violated, the full benefit is taken from all tax exemptions, deductions, allowances, tax credits and […]
Damned Before TrialBy: Nouman Muhib Kakakhel on January 14, 2020Enactment of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Control of Narcotics substances, 2019 overriding Federal law of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997, came as a thunderbolt on Narcotics cartels operating throughout the province being more deterrent in nature due to its inclusion of unnerving penalties like death and up to life imprisonment for a smaller quantum of substance as compared […]
A small piece of land between superpowersBy: M. Abul Hascham Barkhaya on January 14, 2020Gilgit Baltistan (GB) is an unaccepted piece of land in between three superpowers. Technically it is administrated by Pakistan but it is the only piece of land in this known world where inhabitants want to be a constitutional part of a country but the country is not accepting them as their part. The status of […]
We’re running towards a future that might cease to existBy: Ranim Peracha on January 14, 2020From fashion, entertainment, fancy food to uncountable luxuries, we humans want it all. One can’t deny that it feels nice to pamper yourself and get loads of stuff (read: buy and consume material things that you don’t need) but ‘the heart wants what it wants’. Are we to blame though? We open our eyes, entering […]
Undertaking the Judicial chemotherapy in PakistanBy: Muhammad Ishaq Rasheed on January 14, 2020Dissent and reforms go hand in hand with each other. In more developed and civilized societies, dissensions and highlighting of an issue should suffice to bring reform. But if we talk about Realpolitik, we don’t live in such a part of the world. Do we? Here protests go unheeded, what to talk of dissensions and […]