Pakistan’s cash crops — vegetable production on April 29, 2020Vegetables constitute an integral component of our cropping pattern but the increasing pressure on food and cash crops has limited the area under vegetables to about 3.1% of the total cropped area. Because they have a shorter maturity period vegetables fit well in most farming systems. Vegetables provide proteins, minerals and vitamins required for human […]
Pakistan’s cash crops — Fruit production on April 27, 2020Pakistan is climatically capable of growing fruits easily and in abundance. Evidence for the growth of fruit and vegetables in the subcontinent has been provided from ancient times, citriculture is known from the Indus valley for some 4000 years. The climatic diversity is such that it allows cultivation of nearly all types of fruit- temperate, […]
Lock-Down Patterns Differ on April 25, 2020The advent of a new type coronavirus with quite unprecedented characteristics such as high contagiousness, long incubation time – stretching to 14 days which necessitates the isolation time of two weeks -has put the world in a fix. By the time the danger was recognized the virus had already spread across borders, regions and oceans. […]
Pakistan’s Cash Crops Wheat Production ( Part Ii) on April 17, 2020Food security is of central importance to national security. That it was not been realized is surprising given that the sieges of forts and were only successful by forming them into cities starvation Now it will have to remain central to our security imperatives. With a population of more than 200 million people more than […]
Losing out on an un-winnable war on January 16, 2020The recently published papers on the American war in Afghanistan are astonishing in their clarity but not a real surprise. The facts about what has been going on in Afghanistan during the last almost twenty years is quite known to all. The globalized world is still globalizing at an astonishing pace, lies and fabrication have […]
Indian economic woes on September 19, 2019Contrary to general world perception, India’s economic woes are increasing by the day. India’s once-impressive economic growth, averaging above 8 per cent over some time, slowed to below 5 per cent in the last year while inflation rocketed into double digits. Maryam’s Uncle Modi’s changing of the status of the autonomous state of Jammu &Kashmir […]
Fascist Ideologies Nazi and Hindutva Swastikas on August 29, 2019The ultranationalist ideology of Hindu tv a or Hindu-ness was formulated by Savarkar in 1923, it is the predominant form of Hindu nationalism in India. It is championed by a full network of organizations including the Hindu nationalist volunteer organisations Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Hindu Sena – all belonging to […]