Islam’s contribution to Europe — IIAlhazen’s contemporary al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis) of Cordoba, considered the father of modern surgery, influenced generations of European physicians. He was the author of the main surgical textbook used i...
FATF grey list implicationsAs if domestic political crisis was not enough, Pakistan has been hit by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The lame duck government which is tottering to complete its last few months is telling...
India’s derision of CPECIndia, which has been opposed to China since it received a drubbing from it in the 1962 Sino-Indian War, spares no stone unturned to denigrate it. Pakistan was never accepted as a sovereign state by I...
International Women’s Day. Just celebrations?One can’t help but wonder how women domestic workers and low paid factory employees can benefit from ‘Women’s day events’ held at posh hotels. What do such events do for women who have been victims of...
Who will bell the cat?The sordid misconduct of parliamentarians, political elite and the political parties that we witnessed on the day of Senate elections was not surprising at all; it was predictable and was a direct res...
Façade of Senate pollsSir: The members of Senate are supposed to be in good standing to represent federation. Unfortunately leaders of political parties have been abusing their powers in choice of selecting candidates, giv...
UN should intervene in Sri LankaSir: The present Buddhist-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka needs new solution. Sri Lanka has history of minority-majority serious conflict still being probed by UN. Like India Sri Lanka also does not use sec...
Taxes for servicesSir, Sovereign independent State levies taxes on citizens to provide basic services, security of life and property. To perform these functions, it employs citizens on merit, invests in development of...
Women empowermentSir: No society can achieve success without giving rights to the women, socio-economic development and dream of prosperity can materialize only through women empowerment. This has been quite rightly a...