Dr Qaisar Rashid

Just a month ago, on the eve of New Year, news started coming in from Cologne, Germany, on how the refugees and asylum seekers of North African and Arab origin (mostly from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) had groped and sexually assaulted more than 100 German women in the city centre outside the central railway station […]

A country’s relations with other countries predicate on the kind of age it is passing through. The way Pakistan and Russia have infused warmth in their bilateral relations of late shows that that there can only be temporary foes in the world. There is no permanence of enmity; hostility is meant for dissolution. Nevertheless, the […]

Reward — even if couched in appreciation — retains an inherent power of emboldening the virtuous resolve of the recipient, besides smothering undesirable penchants if any exist. To produce an effect, reward dwarfs reprimand in significance. Very few are privy to this theme. On the whole, Pakistani society is yet to mature to fathom the […]

Pakistan has finally decided to undo the act of Liaquat Ali Khan who, in 1949, as the Prime Minister (PM) of Pakistan, turned down the request of the then USSR to visit it; instead, he visited the US in May 1950. The former USSR must have been annoyed at this. Fuel to the fire was […]

The word disability — a connotation of impairment — is a social construct. Embedded in the term ‘Persons with Disabilities (PWDs)’, disability carries two faces: one is put on by the disabled whereas the other is donned by society. Whereas the genetic and acquired aspects of impairment may render a person unable to live life […]

The word disability is a social construct while impairment can be called a medical construct. The existence or appearance of an impairment leads to a disability. The intensity of impairment determines the intensity of the consequent disability and the reciprocal chances of recovery. Some persons are born with impairments while some persons acquire them later […]

The Lahore police are an interesting but intricate police force. They seem to have developed an inclusive formula under which they are authorised to detain and humiliate law-abiding citizens after detaining and humiliating a certain number of law-breaking citizens. That is, after dealing with criminals with an iron hand, the Lahore police take it upon […]

The tumultuous history of India and Pakistan does not let them settle in peace. Kashmir is still a disagreement between the two countries, which happen to be nuclear rivals in South Asia. Both India and Pakistan at least agree that the issue of Kashmir is yet to be solved. Unfortunately, the hatred, which has been bequeathed […]

South Asia, where two nuclear rivals — India and Pakistan — are situated, is unique in the sense that in this region peace is enforced through the fear of nuclear strike, which is called nuclear deterrence. To sustain the quest for deterrence, a nuclear arms’ race is going on. The pile of nuclear arms and […]

It is insecurity that beckons deterrence to forestall — under the fear of consequences — any probable infraction by an attacker. Nuclear deterrence also falls in the same ambit and is considered an instrument to strike the balance of power between adversaries. There are three tiers of nuclear deterrence practised by South Asia’s two nuclear […]