SDGs & civilian nuclear technology in PakistanBy: Mahvish Malik on May 24, 2020On May 28, Pakistan celebrates the annual anniversary of its first nuclear weapon test. Pakistan’s nuclear weapons are aimed to secure its traditional national security and maintain deterrence stability in South Asia. Pakistan’s nuclear diplomacy has underscored its national policy to deter aggression from India. It collaborates with the international community against threat to nuclear […]
Oil prices crash — what will happen now?By: MEHER AZEEM HAKRO on May 24, 2020Coronavirus terror has shaken the world. People have also stopped travelling around the world. Countless aeroplanes have been grounded. Factories have stopped; streets, small and big roads are deserted. Factory owners are upset. Small traders, street vendors, workers and daily wage earners are crying of ruin. Since the global economy is interlinked, there is now […]
La La Land: Elite Capture, Regulatory Capture and Institutional CaptureBy: Sheraz Zaka on May 24, 2020Pakistan is a country which has become an elitist state where the interests of elite class are considered to be of paramount significance. Theentire elite has feterred the country under the shackles of its vested interests. The recent sugar crisis is an example which clearly demonstrates that why people with commercial corporate interests enter into […]
Fight with COVID-19 with fragile health systemBy: Khurram Shahzad on May 23, 2020The outbreak of pandemic COVID-19 disturbed the whole world’s economic, social, religious, political, and financial structure. Covid-19 has become the reason for closing multiple businesses and destroyed the world economy badly where underdeveloped countries like Pakistan are already dealing and struggling to overcome poverty and hunger. To discuss some issues like Pakistan’s response on COVID-19, […]
War against coronavirusBy: Dr Muhammad Nauman Zahid on May 23, 2020COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease-2019) is a highly contagious respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus named SARS-CoV-2. The perilous coronavirus has sent a shiver down the spines. This virus belongs to family of coronaviruses. They infect mostly bats, pigs, and small mammals. But due to their ability to mutate, they can jump from animals to humans, […]
Australia-China tussle-2By: S P Seth on May 23, 2020I had ended my article, Australia-China tussle, (Daily Times, May 2, 2020) by observing that it would be interesting to see how it plays out. Well, both sides maintained their strong views. The Sydney Morning Herald, for instance, ran a long commentary by Pater Hartcher, who is both its political and international editor, titled: China […]
Child Labour Laws and Pakistan’s International CommitmentsBy: Changezi Sandhu on May 22, 2020Unfortunately, not even a single day goes without at least one case (reported or unreported) of child abuse, rape, murder, kidnapping, torturing, or becoming a victim of marital disputes and enmity. Even children’s rights are infringed by forced labour; forcing them to work in a hazardous environment and their employment as minors watching because of […]
Behavioural Biases and Endemic COVID-19By: Z M Akhtar on May 22, 2020The world is under the attack of coronavirus and there is hardly any country, which is safe from it. Medical experts and researchers are searching for a vaccine to cure this pandemic and save millions of people. Nobody exactly knows when the world will be free from it and what will be the exact forecast […]
The Perfidy of PrejudiceBy: Mehboob Qadir on May 22, 2020Prejudice, by itself, is mean but if it is perfidious, it becomes ugly. Add to it religious or sectarian sanction and what you have is a truly hideous instrument of discrimination based on caste, creed, race, the colour of the skin or what may be under the shadow of God, so to say. Moral prejudice […]
The pandemic and juvenile justiceBy: Sarmad Ali on May 20, 2020The recent outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic across the globe has not only threatened globalization that the world secured after the demise of the Soviet Union but also threatened lives of ordinary human beings and those behind bars for offences which they did not commit at first place. The pandemic of COVID-19 has threatened civil […]