Sexual violence as weapon of war on June 21, 2020On June 19, 2015, the United Nations General Assembly (A/RES/69/293) proclaimed 19 June of each year the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, in order to raise awareness of the need to put an end to conflict-related sexual violence. The date was chosen to commemorate the adoption on 19 June 2008 […]
COAS to Kabul on June 16, 2020According to the Voice of America (VOA), on Afghan President Ghani’s request, Military Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa travelled to Afghanistan on 9 June 2020, where his delegation held talks with President Ashraf Ghani on bilateral issues and matters related to Afghan peacemaking efforts. Gen Bajwa also held talks with the Afghan Chief Executive, Abdullah […]
Senior Judiciary can greatly help Strengthen Pakistan’s Economy on June 10, 2020A country can be called a sovereign country if it can make independent policy decisions without internal vulnerabilities and external pressures. Only that country can make such decisions, which has a strong economy and defence capability. This is necessary to withstand foreign pressures, face foreign threats to the security and have the capacity to return […]
India exposed on May 29, 2020In the post-cold war and post 9/11 scenarios, the US started looking at China as the next competing power that could challenge its superpower status. Hence, the US started pursuing a policy of containing China’s peaceful rise by consolidating its cold war alliances in the Asia Pacific region, and choosing some of the new allies, […]
Impressive relief package on May 23, 2020To support the people of Pakistan and the industry and the businesses facing the losses being suffered during the lockdown imposed to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, the government of Pakistan (GOP) has provided a major financial relief to the people, the industry and the businesses. In this context, the KPMG has published a report on […]
China’s Important Role for a Sustainable Peace in Afghanistan on May 17, 2020As a neighbour to Afghanistan, China favours a sustainable peace in the country it shares a narrow border with. China wishes that crime and violence do not spill over from Afghanistan into its Muslim majority Xinjiang Region. Since 2001, during the war on terror in Afghanistan, China has not taken any side therein. It has […]
Blacklist India due to religious intolerance on May 11, 2020As reflected in the world media outlets in the last few days, a major development has occurred regarding India’s religious discrimination and intolerance, that the United States’ Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), in its Annual Report 2019 has called for the State Department to Blacklist India by adding in its list of countries with […]
Pakistani diaspora’s commendable role in other countries to fight COVID-19 on May 5, 2020As the world is confronted with fighting the coronavirus pandemic, Pakistanis living in several countries have volunteered to make valuable contributions, to help fight the virus as the front line workers to save precious lives. According to Al Jazeera dated 9 April 2020, Pakistani taxi drivers in Barcelona were also fighting the COVD-19 in Spain […]
Blaming China for spreading COVID-19 would not help fight the virus on April 28, 2020After the outbreak of coronavirus in Wuhan city of China in the third week of December 2019, the US considered the virus as China specific and did not foresee that it will spread so quickly to the whole world. According to the Independent dated 25 March 2020, the US took the virus as China’s virus […]
Pakistan’s fight against COVID-19 on April 27, 2020Coronavirus was first traced in China’s Wuhan city in the third week of December, 2019. The Pakistan government alerted the people and closed its borders and air flights to and from China. However, the first two cases of coronavirus in Pakistan, noticed on 26 February 2020, returned from Iran, despite screening of the returning pilgrims […]