Pakistan’s climate change strategy on June 5, 2018Pakistan was ranked seventh on the 2017 Global Climate Change Risk Index for countries most vulnerable to climate change. Increasingly frequent and intensive floods, heat waves, and cyclonic activity, has resulted in substantial financial, material and human loss in the past few years. This is even more alarming, considering Pakistan was ranked at 135 among […]
We need more dams on May 25, 2018According to the latest facts and figures available from official sources, the development of new water and hydropower projects is important to cope up with the ever-increasing demand for water and energy. The per capita water availability in the country has decreased due to rapid growth in population and depleting water storage capacity of the […]
Revisiting Iqbal museum on April 21, 2018The nation observes the death anniversary of Pakistan’s great thinker and poet, Dr Allama Muhammad Iqbal on April 21. He had awakened the Muslims of the sub-continent and, more importantly, he had also presented the concept of a separate homeland for the Muslims where they could lead their lives according to their religious tenets and be socially […]
Our longest surviving constitution on April 21, 2018The first constitution was made and enforced in 1956, making Pakistan the Republic of Pakistan. It proved to be a short-lived document and was abrogated in October 1958 when President Major General Iskander Mirza and first Muslim Commander-in-Chief of Pakistan Army General Muhammad Ayub Khan had connived and imposed first martial law in the country […]
Mainstreaming of tribal areas on April 17, 2018The federal government started on mainstreaming of Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) rather speedily early last year so that the people living there get their fundamental rights, British era’s legacy Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR)repealed and replaced with national judicial system through extension of jurisdictions of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and Peshawar High Court to these […]
Kashmir Solidarity Day on February 8, 2018Like every year, the government and the people of Pakistan are observing February 5 as the Kashmir Solidarity Day with the twin purposes of reiterating support for the oppressed people of Indian Occupied Kashmir and to draw the attention of the international community towards the brutalities of Indian security forces against Kashmiris who are demanding […]
Youm-e-Takbir 2017 on May 28, 2017 Pakistani nation is celebrating another Youm-e-Takbir, with the continued blessings of Almighty Allah, on May 28, 2017 marking the country’s becoming nuclear power, the first in the Islamic world and seventh after USA, Soviet Federation (formerly Soviet Union), Britain, France, China and India on this day in 1998. On this historic occasion, every Pakistani […]