The Big-Boss America By: Talha Mahmood Rajput on August 21, 2020“Americans do not have the sense of the tragic, and because you do not have the sense of the tragic; you do not know what is happening to us in Asia, in Greece, in Vietnam, in Cambodia,” said Eqbal Ahmad, a Pakistani political scientist, while delivering a lecture on “revolution in the third world countries” […]
Why democracy fails in third world: democratic government of Pakistan (Part 1/II) By: Anna Kazmi on August 21, 2020The Latin term “demokratia”literally means the rule of the people. This takes into consideration all the demands of the populace, what changes they desire, how they would like their needs to be met, and what steps they expect their government to take in order to make headway against the defective areas of the country. The […]
Telemedicine initiatives in Pakistan By: Sadaf Liaqat on August 21, 2020The COVID-19 pandemic has made us face the new norms of life and adapt to new constraints. It has also portrayed the rifts in our healthcare infrastructure. As the pandemic recedes and its threat to the health of people is subsidizing, it is time to reflect and contemplate on root causes, plaguing the health service […]
Nadia Ashraf Death: Suicide or Homicide? By: Dr Zahid Khan Marwat on August 21, 2020The sudden death of Nadia Ashraf shocked the entire academic circle of the country. She was a promising student of the Dr Panjuani Centre for Molecular Medicine and Research, Karachi University, committed suicide after being harassed by her PhD supervisor, Dr Iqbal Chaudry. Before committing suicide, Nadia told her close circle, “Dr Iqbal will not […]
Feminism in Pakistan By: Zafar Aziz Chaudhry on August 21, 2020The idea of Feminism comes to mind when one wants to emphasise the implicit equality in the opportunity of both genders that constitute humanity. In an economic system, the family is the nucleus of growth and production. Whenever this fundamental nucleus is threatened by internal or external forces, the entire economic system is likely to […]
Debating the 18th Amendment By: Zia Ullah Khan on August 21, 2020The 18th amendment, which has been introduced into the constitution of 1973, is a landmark achievement in the up-and-down constitutional history of Pakistan. With the emergence of the amendment, all powers globally considered to be exercised by federating units, under the federal republic, have been devolved to the provincial governments. It’s also worth mentioning that […]
Green Change is Hard but Necessary for Pakistan By: Syed Asim Ali Bukhari on August 20, 2020The Clean and Green Pakistan vision of the current government seems to be following Newton’s law of motion, in which equal but opposing forces are acting on the country’s natural environment and apparently causing no change in the objects state. On one side, the government announces the Billion Tree Tsunami project for environmental sustainability and […]
The US-Israel Axis By: Amreen Mir on August 20, 2020Amidst a global pandemic, which has nearly turned to an endemic, the diplomatic shift in the Middle East has left an indelible mark on the history of the Muslim world. On Thursday, a tweet by American President, Donald Trump declared a historic peace deal between the UAE and Israel, in exchange for Israel abandoning its […]
Pragmatism in foreign policy By: Abdul Sattar Rahuja on August 20, 2020Pakistan has the capacity and capability to expand its foreign policy pragmatism in the contemporary challenging world. Civil government and military establishment are now riding the same camel. Thus, the lingering foreign policy hurdles must be addressed at once on a mutually consulted mechanism. Stress and strains in Pak-Saudi relations and the battered economic condition […]
Congratulations, Afghanistan! By: Juma Khan Sufi on August 19, 2020Today is the 101st Day of Afghanistan Independence. Our brothers are celebrating it with much enthusiasm and fanfare. Let us congratulate them from the bottom of our hearts. The befitting felicitations for Afghans would be wishing them success in the ongoing peace process and wishing Afghanistan to usher in an era of peace before another […]