Dr Qaisar Rashid

The major threat to the quality of education comes from its unchecked commercialisation, be it at the national or international level. Scotland, which recently aspired for independence from the UK through a referendum, is not immune to this evil, especially when it comes to offering higher education to overseas students, as depicted by the report […]

A deal can be credible, workable and lasting if both the signatory parties interpret it as being in their benefit and claim to have gained more than they have lost. This is true about the nuclear deal that has taken place between Iran and six major world powers in Vienna, Austria, under the auspices of […]

Ostensibly, the dynamics of the world have changed. The world has fast traversed the era of economic war between countries — a special feature of the post-Cold War era — and has entered the era of economic cooperation, in which neighbouring countries collaborate with one another economically so that the whole region reaps dividends. Europe […]

Some days ago, on June 22, a few Taliban militants detonated a car bomb outside the National Assembly in Kabul. The attackers launched rocket-propelled grenades at the building before they were killed by the Afghan national security force. The government of Afghanistan laid blame on Pakistan by saying that the bomb was loaded into the […]

The beginning of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was the rise of the consciousness of an ethnic identity in the Muhajirs (those who migrated in 1947 from India) followed by a reaction to the purported suppression of their identity by the non-Muhajir. The end of the MQM in the foreseeable future is possible fragmentation followed […]

In South Asia, political gaffes are the norm. Pejorative words are uttered carelessly. Hence, the job of the minions begins with either defending the malice or doing damage control. A defence is put forth that the words should not be taken out of context, as though within the context they were innocuous. Similarly, a variety […]

In his June 7 address to the audience at Dhaka University during his Bangladesh trip, Indian Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi said: “Pakistan aaye din (every other day) disturbs India, jo naako dum la deta hai (creates a nuisance), terrorism ko badhawa (deta hai)…ki ghatnaayein ghatthi rehti hain (promotes terrorism and such incidents keep recurring).” […]

On May 12th this year, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visited Kabul on an official invitation, along with army chief General Raheel Sharif and ISI chief Lieutenant General Rizwan Akhtar, and started a new chapter of Pakistan’s Afghan policy. They said that Pakistan considered attacks (under the ruse of the “spring offensive”) launched by the Taliban […]

On the nuclear front, no other region of the world has been experiencing developments quite like the South Asia region has. The decade of the 1990s prompted its de facto nuclearisation when the region’s two giants, India and Pakistan, went nuclear in May 1998, though India had tested its nuclear weapon in 1974. The Brasstacks […]

Creativity is an activity that creates something new such as an idea, either from nothing or from the recombination of old ideas. The former can be called a better form of creativity than the latter. In either case, incubation is an important part of the creative process. Nevertheless, in 1926, Graham Wallas, an English psychologist, […]