Pakistan vindicated at UN on June 4, 2021President of the UN General Assembly Volkan Bozkir addressing a joint press conference with Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood on last Thursday after the conclusion of his visit to Pakistan said: “I think it is the duty, especially Pakistan’s to bring this Kashmir issue to the United Nation platform more strongly”. He also reiterated that all […]
Electoral reforms — inevitable imperative on May 26, 2021One of Pakistan’s most unfortunate realities is that whenever political parties on are the losing end of elections – they refuse to accept defeat. Not only that, they go on to term the whole thing a charade, a rigged affair. Even worse, they, at times, resort to agitating against the government in a bid to […]
Pakistan is a trusted partner for peace on May 20, 2021Pakistan has played a pivotal role in facilitating the US-Taliban peace deal while promoting intra-Afghan dialogue to end the devastating war in Afghanistan. Yet Kabul continues to look askance at Islamabad’s role and intentions despite this country having taken several initiatives towards engagement to improve bilateral ties; while offering reassurances that it is not playing […]
Electoral reforms inevitable on December 16, 2020Abraham Lincoln described democracy as government of the people, by the people and for the people. In the modern era democracy is acknowledged as the best form of representative governance as majority of the countries of the world have a democratic dispensation, though they have different modes of electing the members of the legislatures. In […]
ECONOMIC RECOVERY CLAIMS CORROBORATED on November 30, 2020Prime Minister Imran Khan while addressing the ‘Pakistan Strategy Dialogue ‘ under the auspices of World Economic Forum told his global audience that after enduring the debilitating impact of first wave of corona virus and various economic challenges, the economy of the country was now stable and moving in the right direction. This recovery he […]
RIGHT STEPS TOWARDS POVERTY ALLEVIATION on February 2, 2020The PTI government took yet another significant step towards poverty alleviation and amelioration of the indigent and poor through the launch of EhsasKafalat Card inaugurated by Prime Minister Imran Khan on 31 January. Under the new initiative Rs.2000 monthly cash payments will be made to seven million women envisaged to benefit from it. Coming under […]
WHY WORLD MUST ACT NOW on September 16, 2019The address to the mammoth public rally in Muzaffarbad by Prime Minister Imran Khan was a pragmatic and visionary discourse of a statesman par excellence who was unravelling the gravity of the situation in IOK to his people in the backdrop of the unilateral action by the Modi government to end the special status of […]
Pemra Not At Fault on July 14, 2019The cabinet in its meeting on 9 July took serious view of the interview of the former President Asif Ali Zardari by Hamid Mir for Geo TV which was taken off the air immediately after it started. The Prime Minister particularly seemed irked by the episode and it was decided to ask PEMRA to justify […]
Naya Pakistan – a nightmare on May 26, 2019It would be an understatement to say that the promised emergence of Naya Pakistan has failed to actualize. In fact the dream for Naya Pakistan has turned into a nightmare for all those who believed in the unrealistic and utopian ideas of Imran Khan about making Pakistan a vibrant and prosperous nation with no problems […]
BRI: A ROAD MAP TO GLOBAL PROSPERITY on April 28, 2019Prime Minister Imran Khan was right on money when addressing the second Belt and Road Forum in Beijing he said “In a world of geopolitical uncertainty, of rising inequality and barriers to trade, the BRI offers a model of collaboration, partnership, connectivity and shared prosperity. The phenomenal rise of China as world’s world second biggest […]