A day with IGP Punjab on September 28, 2023Brilliance comes in several forms. One of them is the current Inspector General of the Punjab (IGP) police, Dr Usman Anwar. A few days ago, hosted by a famous anchorperson Suhail Warraich, Geo television aired a program, “Aik Din Geo Kay Sath” (a day with Geo Tv), which shed some light on the routine of […]
Messages of the Delhi Declaration on September 12, 2023By hosting the two-day (9-10 September) G20 Summit in New Delhi, India finds itself jubilant. The summit declared personifying the theme, “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” (the world is one family). That is, the collective well-being is the global well-being. On the first day, India was successful in seeking 100 per cent consensus from the participants on the […]
Challenges Before the Interim Government on September 1, 2023Pakistan is in the hands of the interim government (called the caretaker government). Days assigned to it constitutionally are ninety. Nevertheless, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has announced to consume four months for the delimitation of electoral constituencies. By the constitutional mandate, the ECP can declare a growth in the number of voters in […]
Immigration to Germany on July 28, 2023On June 23 this year, the German Parliament (Bundestag) passed a new law, which modified the Skilled Immigration Act of 2020. The new law aims at attracting immigrant workers to Germany from outside the European Union. This was how the gamut of immigration reached from Pakistan to Nigeria. The new law, meant to modernize German […]
Where is Pakistan’s Chandrayaan? on July 20, 2023On July 14, the Chandrayaan-3 spaceship lifted off from the Launchpad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. Chandrayaan, the moon mission, is expected to reach the Moon’s South Pole for a soft landing with a lander and rover on the lunar surface (where water is expected) by August 23-24. By doing so, India would […]
Pakistan, IMF and EU on July 11, 2023Last week, making an unprecedented move, the resident representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Esther Perez Ruiz, met Pakistan’s politicians, from both treasury and opposition benches, to seek their support for policy objectives envisioned in the proposed $3 billion Stand-By Agreement arranged for nine months. Though the IMF’s representative considered it necessary to seek […]
The Pak-IMF stand-by agreement on July 5, 2023Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have finally struck a staff-level agreement for the provision of $3 billion for nine months as a bailout package under a stand-by arrangement (SBA). The agreement replaced the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) which Pakistan entered in 2019 and which was to expire on June 30. The SBA is […]
Modi-Biden Bonhomie on June 28, 2023On June 26, Pakistan’s Foreign Office could not restrain itself from summoning the US Deputy Chief of Mission and issuing him a demarche. The objective was to convey Pakistan’s displeasure on the US-India joint statement, which was issued after a meeting between US President Joe Biden and visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June […]
G-20 meeting in Kashmir on May 20, 2023From May 22 to 24, India would host the third G20 Tourism Working Group meeting at the Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC), Srinagar, the capital of Indian-held Kashmir. In 2023, India holds the G20 presidency. Taking advantage of its position, India wants to air four main messages. First, Kashmir is a tourist spot loyally aligned […]
Bilawal Bhutto’s visit to Goa on May 10, 2023On May 4-5, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister (FM) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari visited Goa to attend the Foreign Ministers’ meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), being hosted by India, the current chair. After more than a decade (since 2011), Pakistan’s FM was visiting India, where the local media was also excited to receive the guest. Unfortunately, […]