Holding Up Half The Sky on March 8, 2023“Women hold up half the sky” was how Mao Zedong famously described the critical importance of equal rights and equal participation of women in national life. Pakistan’s founder, Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah was even more emphatic about women’s role when he said “No nation can rise to the height of glory unless women are side […]
Ambassador Lodhi excited about Pakistans rising economy on August 27, 2016NEW YORK: Pakistani Ambassador to the United Nations, Dr Maleeha Lodhi, rang the closing bell at the NASDAQ Stock Exchange in New York on Friday to signal the ceremonial end of trading for the day on Wall Street. She also spoke on the occasion, saying that the Pakistan’s economy was on the upswing as it pursued the […]
Beyond boots and bombs on November 30, 2008The terrorist attacks in Mumbai have dramatised how the urgent will often take precedence over the important for the incoming Obama administration.The attacks have plunged relations between Pakistan and India into unpredictable territory just when a series of policy reviews in Washington are focussed on overhauling strategy in Afghanistan.With Afghanistan in a “downward spiral” Washington […]