Managing a dry Pakistan on April 6, 2018With a population of more than 200 million people, Pakistan is facing a daunting task to manage the worst water crisis. It is not only shortage of water for crops but the availability of water for general consumption in most of the urban centres of the country is also becoming a major challenge. On March […]
Undoing the destruction of Karachi? on March 30, 2018During his visit to Karachi on March 19-20, the Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Imran Khan made a passionate appeal to the people to ‘give us a chance and we will bring the change as we have fulfilled our commitment by bringing a change in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.’ It was the second time in two weeks that […]
East Pakistan’s road to separation on March 23, 2018On 23 March 1940 the demand for separate Muslim states in the Northwest and Northeast was put forward by the ‘lion of Bengal’ AK Fazlul Haq in the Muslim League meeting held in Lahore. After 31 years, on March 23, 1971, flags of independent Bangladesh were raised in every nock and corner of East Pakistan […]
Bridging the knowledge gap on March 16, 2018Walls of ignorance and retrogression cannot be dismantled without creating a society which is knowledge friendly. Tolerance, enlightenment and wisdom create conditions for a country aspiring to excel in science and technology. Why Pakistan, despite 71 years of independence from the colonial tutelage of Britain has failed to create a knowledge economy and society? Why […]
Co-opting the Afghan Taliban? on March 9, 2018The Afghan President Ashraf Ghani after the holding of an international conference for peace in Afghanistan on February 28 in Kabul expressed his readiness to hold talks with Taliban in order to give a break to his country from more than 16 years of violence and war. Co-opting Taliban is a relatively new phenomenon because […]
Where are the real issues? on March 2, 2018With foreign exchange reserves with State Bank dwindling to $ 12 billion and exports not touching beyond $ 21 billion, Pakistan’s predicament is deepening with each passing day. Human and social development, which should have been the priority of those who are at the helm of affairs, is at its lowest ebb. More than 25 […]
Security pact for the Middle East? on February 23, 2018In his speech delivered on the occasion of annual Munich Security Conference on February 16, the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani came up with an innovative idea for a security pact for the Middle Eastern countries in order to establish peace and resolve contentious issues in the region. The Amir of […]
Korean sports diplomacy on February 17, 2018On February 9, winter Olympics began in the South Korean county of PyeongChang, located in Ghangwon province. The source of attraction and fascination in South Korean Olympics is the participation of a 22 member team of Olympians from North Korea. In the opening ceremony, North and South Korean team entered under a unified flag. History […]
Vietnam and Afghanistan on February 9, 2018In an interview given to the Washington Post the other day, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi warned that, “Afghanistan could become another Vietnam for the United States if it tried to resolve the Afghan dispute through military means.” It is not for the first time in the last 39 years that a parallel has […]
The map controversy on February 2, 2018The map of India which was depicted by the then High Commissioner of India to Singapore, Mr TCA Raghavan during his talk on ‘Indian Foreign Policy’ at the Rajaratram School of International Studies (RSIS) Nanyang Technological University, Singapore delivered in February 2011 included Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) as part of India and showed Afghanistan as a neighbour […]