Is the world warm welcoming to climate change?By: Yasir Zia on December 10, 2019In the environment of modernisation, every person wants to breathe but what is the cost of this wish? To find the answer to this crucial and time-sensitive question, we have to understand the catlike changes in our thinking, which ultimately lead to changes in our surroundings via our actions. If I ask a question, what […]
Improving air quality in LahoreBy: Umar Najeeb Sansi on December 10, 2019Access to safe air is a basic human need. Lahore is suffering from air pollution throughout the year. However, its worst effects can be seen in the formation of a new season called “Smog Season” between October and January. Lahore is surrounded by numerous things: eight thermal power plants, hundreds of brick kilns, thousands of […]
Why the US criticism of CPEC is mere speculation?By: Hannan R Hussain on December 10, 2019Washington’s critique of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is becoming a bit predictable. Alice Wells, the top US diplomat for South Asia, reiterated the Trump leadership’s long-term position on CPEC last month. She claimed that aid was an illusion, Pakistan was headed for a debt trap, and Beijing would consolidate all profits. Interestingly, what […]
Religious freedom: a theological and historical perspectiveBy: Sadia Suši on December 9, 2019Religious tensions and overall instability across parts of the Muslim world, especially in the Middle East, tend to lead towards a general misconception about Islam being an antagonistic religion and inherently opposed to any form of religious freedom or pluralism. However, contrary to such a misleading notion, the right to religious freedom is a fundamental […]
Farangi Mahall: The Harvard of the EastBy: Rehan Khan on December 9, 2019In the last years of the 17th century in India, a league of zealots stormed a house; killed its owner and set the entire house on fire. In less than an hour, everything, including a private library, was reduced to ashes. Qutbuddin–an exceptional philosopher and the owner of the house–was dead. His assassins were enraged […]
‘Halal’ corruption!By: Shakir Lakhani on December 9, 2019After a very long time, we heard some good news. Petrol prices were decreased by 25 paisas per litre. My petrol consumption being about a hundred litres every month, I’ll be able to save the princely amount of 25 rupees in December, with which I’ll be able to buy one tomato and gift it to […]
HIV — the idiosyncratic virus of modern eraBy: Dr Faisal Ali on December 9, 2019Human beings are the products of psychological and cosmological arrows of time. In spite of assisting in the creation of the human race, these arrows of time have also evolved; flabbergasting screenplays in the form of life and death. The voyage of mankind to the future has always been trammelled by various types of scenarios. […]
Corruption: mother of all evilsBy: Saddam Hussain Samo on December 9, 2019The daunting challenge for Pakistan is to eradicate the evil of corruption from its land, as it is responsible for almost all challenges faced by the country today, including inflation, fiscal deficit and poor public infrastructure. Corruption cannot be eliminated, but it can be brought to such a minimum level that the local citizens are […]
World beater councilBy: Mohammad Farnush on December 9, 2019I have been in pain, affliction and agony since I was a child. These have come from Lord for making me a strong man. Lord selected me for special duty. Therefore, I have been living in fear and hope for several years. I have lived in Iran in two periods: Pahlavi and the Islamic Republic […]
Repeating the same mistakeBy: Saddam Hussain Samo on December 8, 2019Historically, Pakistan’s military has been blamed for impeding democratic progress in the country through continuous intervention and imposition of martial law on different occasions. However, the contribution of our democratic leaders towards the dismantling of democracy is always ignored. Owing to their immaturity and lust for power, these leaders have a record of hitching conspiracies […]