Deciphering India’s Economic Potential on August 8, 2023The growth trajectory of India’s economy in the current decade warrants global attention. Having already broken into the top five global economies, India’s rapid growth, spurred by a vast and young population, makes its future potential seemingly boundless. However, the narrative is a double-edged sword. A potent combination of significant economic growth and demographic advantages […]
Tackling Climate Illiteracy in Pakistan on April 7, 2023The devastating floods that ravaged Pakistan in 2022 have left the country reeling, with a staggering 33 million people affected, eight million displaced, and a tragic death toll of over 1,700. The nation now faces the daunting task of dealing with the aftermath of this catastrophic event. The escalating crisis in Pakistan has caught the […]
Donate wisely on January 18, 2019Pakistanis are one of the most generous and charitable people in the world. Their generosity has been tested through the course of precarious times that the country has faced in its 71 years history. It is these uncertain times that the people of Pakistan come to the aide of their fellow citizens by open-handedly offering […]
Mediating for peace on May 30, 2018As we enter the post-globalised era, the Afghan conundrum remains an unsolved mystery in international affairs. The issue entails perplex dynamics of Afghan politics, embedded in religious fervour that is coupled with warring ethnic groups that have long sought control over the “Graveyard of Empires”. The country has always been defiant, and has quashed, within […]
The dilemma of our training industry on February 16, 2018Empty clichés, hollow promises, unrealistic depictions, futile motivation, tall tales… This is not a description of a politician addressing his constituents during a political rally. It is a description of something that has somewhat become an industry in our country, and which is growing at an unprecedented pace without literally any regulation or criterion. Training […]
Expectations from the new CII on December 6, 2017After one year of dormancy, the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) came back to life with the appointment of new council and a chairman by President Mamnoon Hussain on November 3, 2017. The previous council, chaired by the much spotlighted MNA of JUI-F Molana Muhammad Sherani, had attracted unprecedented public outcry for its controversial statements […]
The turning tides on November 19, 2017The geo-political landscape, nature of alliances and strategic realities are transforming so swiftly that if Thomas Hobbes were to explain it as a modern political scientist, he would have, without the shadow of a doubt, reiterated vociferously what he had said more than four hundred years ago: Bellum omnium contra omnes, a Latin phrase meaning […]
Our wordplay conundrum on October 6, 2017Watching TV talk shows these days on Pakistani new channels requires high-level de-riddling skills to decipher the meanings. Bursting with ideas, they have a lot to say. But usually indirectly, through their flawless wordplay and exceptional hold on vocabulary. A nation skilled at wordplay and indirect speech, we are gradually fulfilling the criteria of a […]
Engineering terrorism on September 28, 2017Very often when we focus our energies on one thing, we tend to turn a blind eye towards other things worth equally of our attention; the result is, of course, chaos. Same has been the case with our anti-terrorism mechanism and strategy. Pakistan is a country blessed with abundance of youth with almost sixty per […]