Dr Qaisar Rashid

Though Pakistan is a good learner, learning itself is an arduous process. Nevertheless, the year 2022 became able to teach Pakistan several lessons. One of the major lessons was that the economy had to become the mainstay of Pakistan’s recognition and vitality. Recognition, because Pakistan’s name was equated to a begging bowl: Pakistan knocked at […]

On January 23, an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Karachi acquitted all accused, including Senior Superintendent of Police Rao Anwar, of the murder of Naqeebullah Mehsud. Five years ago, in a fake police encounter, the Karachi police killed Mehsud along with three other young men (Muhammad Sabir, Muhammad Ishaq, and Nazir Jan) on the suspicion of […]

Not many people realize the significance and relevance of research, especially before taking a decision. The same is becoming true for government officers. In Pakistan, most people think that research is academic and not administrative. That is, research can be learned and applied to earn an academic degree and not to achieve an administrative feat. […]

On January 7, an Islamabad-based think tank, the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS), released its annual “Pakistan Security Report 2022.” The report compared the security situation in 2021 and 2022. The report noted that the TTP remained rooted in Afghanistan and that this factor alone gave the organization the requisite leeway to be a […]

On December 22, for the fiscal year of 2023, the Senate of the United States (US) passed a $ 1.7 trillion omnibus spending package, including $200 million for promoting gender equality in Pakistan. This amount is 20 times more than the amount allocated for Pakistan in December 2020 ($10 million) for the fiscal year 2021. […]

On March 1, 2020, Germany enforced its new Skilled Immigration Act, which claims to extend opportunities for qualified professionals and skilled workers from outside the European Union to come to work and live in Germany. Currently, led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SDP), in coalition with the Green party, has been […]

Politics has ravaged almost every system. The process of the promotion of bureaucrats is no exception. Playing politics to promote favoured bureaucrats is akin to playing with the administrative future of the country. On December 9, Prime Minster (PM) Shehbaz Sharif approved the recommendations of the Central Selection Board (CSB) for the promotions of officers […]

On November 27, the Gulf News published the interview of Pakistan’s outgoing Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa. Related to foreign policy, the interview is quite revealing of an important facet, which spurns the necessity of bringing Pakistan’s Foreign Office in the loop. The aspect is that military diplomacy complements Pakistan’s foreign […]

Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right, besides a fundamental human faculty to subsist in the world. Freedom of expression comes with four dimensions. The first dimension is that freedom of expression gives liberty, though under certain reasonable restraints, to express oneself by speaking or writing. The availability of freedom of expression nudges one […]

One of the easiest ways the Pakistanis have learnt to resolve the Kashmir issue is to substitute the name of the Kashmir highway for the Srinagar highway. This happened in the capital Islamabad in August 2020. The renaming was done to express solidarity with the Kashmir cause. Solace was found in the fact that the […]