75 Years of Failure in Narrative Economics By: Dr Hasnain Javed on August 17, 2022I continue to scroll through newspapers to read about how the last 75 years of the country have been painted. There is a plethora of content on the political saga, the economic performances and the social marginalization. However, there is an integral theme missing in everything I have read so far about Pakistan’s 75-year journey. […]
Climate Change: Educational Oversight (Part III) By: Ghania Usman and Saud Bin Ahsen on August 17, 2022Recommendations Hence, keeping in view the severity of the climate crisis, everyone should act as a stakeholder in Climate Change. If UNDP is a global advocate, the government of Pakistan should assume the role of national advocate and engage with people-peasants, students, individuals, businesses, civil society organizations etc. Everyone must play their part in advocacy […]
Combating the Global Food Crisis By: Munir Ahmed on August 17, 2022The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is ringing bells to get the rich countries to focus on 345 million people that are facing acute food insecurity in 82 countries while aiming to reach 152 million in 2022. It needs US$22.2 billion this year to feed 152 million hungry human beings. A Recent WFP report […]
Implementing Disaster Risk Reduction Framework in Pakistan By: Muhammad Awais Umar on August 17, 2022The dynamic nature and associated uncertainties of natural disasters greatly threaten socio-economic sustainability. Countries with limited financial resources and inadequate infrastructure are more vulnerable to such threats. The sixth assessment report (AR6) of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change has ranked the South Asian region as the most vulnerable region to climate change-related disasters. The […]
Playing with Fire: The Inconsistency of the US in its Taiwan Policy By: Nauman Ahmad Bhatti on August 16, 2022The strategy of the United States regarding Taiwan is highly problematic. Taiwan is a hard spot for both the US and China. Where the White House insists that it supports the One China policy, the actions of other segments of the government suggest otherwise. This inconsistency is especially highlighted by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent […]
Start Negotiations on Kashmir By: Dr Qaisar Rashid on August 16, 2022On April 11, 2022, the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) took over the reins of Pakistan, with Mian Shahbaz Sharif and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari as Prime Minister and Foreign Minister respectively. It was expected that the new government would make headway on the issue of Kashmir. That is, the new government would speak to India about […]
The Assassinated Dance for Literature in South Asia By: Juan Abbas on August 16, 2022“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known.” This is what Charles Dickens should have elaborated on when pursuing his ever-so ambitious timelessness. Instead, it played into a mystical array of both inefficiency, […]
Can the Least Popular, Oldest President in History Still Win? By: Harlan Ullman on August 15, 2022Despite some recent successes, President Joe Biden’s popularity ratings remain at all-time lows for any White House. Can Biden survive and reverse this condition as past presidents have? Or is recovery impossible for a soon-to-be eighty-year-old president? Jack Kennedy survived the Bay of Pigs fiasco. While LBJ did not recover from Vietnam and Richard Nixon […]
It’s Reko Diq, Again By: Iftekhar A Khan on August 15, 2022It’s our good fortune that huge deposits of copper and gold exist in the depths of Reko Diq, the rugged land of Balochistan which is the most underdeveloped province in the country. But it’s our bad luck that we are unable to make use of the hidden wealth touted to value at $260 billion. Now […]
One Year in Diplomatic Isolation By: Numan Bacha on August 15, 2022Today marks the completion of one year of the fall of Kabul to the Afghan Taliban. While the fall of Kabul to the Taliban apparently came to pass on August 15, 2021, it can be well-argued that the pre-fall developments in Kabul had actually paved the way for it to happen. Lately, in an interview […]