Dr Fawad Kaiser

No one expected the international arbitration court to be the last word that China had no legal basis to claim longstanding rights over most of the South China Sea, which is rich in resources and carries out $5 trillion in annual trade. The ruling also faulted China for its seemingly aggressive attempts to extend its […]

A public outcry has followed the revelation that NAB sanctioned the surprise refusal to prosecute an accused senior civil servant in a major corruption case. Corruption is everywhere and is not peculiar to Pakistan but its effects are more visible here simply because the rate at which it is operated is beyond imagination and the […]

Conditions for Muslims have steadily declined in Myanmar, with the Rohingya Muslims of Rakhine State left with facing the gravest threat. Although about a million Rohingya Muslims among Myanmar’s predominantly Buddhist 52 million people have lived in Myanmar for generations, most people view them as foreign intruders from neighbouring Bangladesh. They face discrimination and violence […]

Just as cannibalism and chattel slavery are mostly extinct in the modern world, it is possible that other forms of violence, such as terrorism, wars between countries, could one day disappear soon. Violence reduction might be like other types of technological progress that is, not linear and not exorable, but highly likely over the long […]

Cyber criminals are increasingly turning to “sextortion” attacks in which they blackmail victims with the threat of exposing explicit photographs or messages. Sextortion is a form of online blackmail, where criminals try to befriend victims and trick them into sharing pictures or may use malware to target victims’ webcams and take pictures themselves in order […]

Pakistan relies on its universities to deliver far more of its research than any other third world nation, and Pakistan’s innovation agenda will rely heavily on universities to drive it. Currently, Pakistani universities are significantly underfunded for the research work they do in comparison to other regional countries. Its universities teach students funded jointly by […]

It is possible to reform the different stages of the Civil Superior Services (CSS) examination, which include the preliminary, main and interview. The preliminary examination, only qualifying in nature, can address the subjects of conceptual skills, abstract thinking and problem solving skills. It can be just a multiple choice question paper, and using decentralised and […]

The national media is moaning the disappointing results of this year’s competitive examination for civil services. In 2016, 9,643 candidates sat for the written test of the Central Superior Services (CSS). Sadly however, only 202 or 2.09 percent qualified, and the rest failed the test. This is the lowest percentage of successful students since 2011. […]

The co-relation between national interests and state security has never received such scholarly attention before. Plans for operationalising the Special Security Division (SSD) for China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) have been held up by civil-military interface. The success of CPEC is dependent on a unified strategic policy and insulation of the threat scenario. The internal security […]

With the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) once again embroiled in a row to bring the powerful under the rule of law, and hurtling towards an anti-corruption movement, it could be set to lose confidence among the people and the establishment. And hence the attention may turn to the position of the PTI leader, Imran Khan. An […]