The Oracle is spying a world whose politics, economics, state dynamics including power composition and societies, will be undergoing significant change. The US National Intelligence Council ‘Global Trends 2040: A More Contested World’ report published back in March draws five distinct world scenarios of what the world will look like in twenty years. These compendiums […]
UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030
On March 1st, 2019, under Resolution 73/284, United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2021–2030 as United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The UN Decade Strategy 2021-2030 promises to strike a heavenly balance between the object of Nature with the subject of Man. Pakistan being amongst the first seven countries threatened with the calamities of climate change […]
Local governments and the Tiger Force
Our dictators have always been fond of democracy just like our democrats who have always been in love with dictatorships. Our democrats always approached power to centralize in a single individual and our dictators always wanted power to be distributed over the long range of society. Our democrats have always been rejectionists of local governments […]
Two presidents and the single peace deal
What happens when you run out of leadership? You become a laughingstock and an ever-brawling pack of people. You become clueless of national vision and immerse in conflicting confusions. The Afghan peace process is fast turning into a quagmire of disagreements played out in the clumsy Ghani-Abdullah hands. The regime that was installed and protected […]
The twin crones of coronavirus
Roads are sparsely traffic commuted; cities’ noise is a little more pacified; shopping malls are variably deserted and everyone is masked facing an invisibly super massive sight of fear. It is coronavirus in our neighborhood which is spreading havoc with the loads of intense despair as no vaccine to kill the devil has yet been […]
Education System and Education Philosophy: The Twins we miss in misery
Is it the cause of politics alone which has effected into rendering us a bunch of reactionary people with the precipitous societal breakdown and eroding intellectual servitude or do we need to really look out for some other adversaries, too? The story of civilized and developed nations is not one scripted in solemn lines of […]
The Magic of defiant Jalib: Uncommon Poet of the Common People
It is Jalib’s 27th Anniversary today and so it marks nearly a stretch of half a century between his prime poetics and us. His legacy is poised in the embellishing relic of teaching us how to live a life by practically living it and setting us the trajectory. Life has debt on each one of […]
The 73 years of Truman Doctrine
The Truman ghost is all alive saying even today what it said on March 12, 1946, which started off the cold war in open valor that lasted till the disintegration of the USSR in 1991 when the Doctrine’s apparently set mission was officially accomplished. Whereas, in actuality, The Truman doctrine is an eternal legendary American […]
Trump in India
Donald Trump deceived political science but proved his faithfulness to romantic literature. His visit of India seemed more like a homecoming reunion, soaked in sincere emotions and selflessness. Trump repeated his tradition of giving surprises. He spoke his heart out only to shock the Indian media, which after the Air Force One had long taken […]
Cloning Malaysian Look East Policy for Pakistan
Being a colony firstly to the Emperor and then to the Queen, the Malays were a nation that was not disciplined, prospective, motivated and organised. A traditionally manual agriculture-based economy with complex ethnic divides, the Malay people were thought as of low mental resolve and ones who were not fit for managing state and trade […]