CSR agenda in national affairs on September 18, 2018It is a twin strategy that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in national and multinational organizations need to address, on the one hand, the urgent needs of the less-privileged, and on the other, initiating a training and development program for them in order to enhance their job-oriented skills and help them move forward in their professional lives, by reassuring them and giving them the … [Read more...] about CSR agenda in national affairs
The essence of foreign policy on August 29, 2018Deviating from the status quo in Pakistan’s foreign policy is a tough ask. Especially amidst internal pressures, distractions, external obligations and compulsions that need no introduction. It is the question of our state extending a genuine olive branch to our antagonists with dignity and honour. It requires a great deal of skill and acumen in the diplomatic arts. A tough ask indeed! With all … [Read more...] about The essence of foreign policy
Celebrating the spirit of freedom on August 11, 2018 Independence Day is rejuvenation of the young nation vowing hearts and souls out for Pakistan in letter and spirit. From Karachi to KPK young sentiments reflect such original belief that Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal envisioned and Quaid-I-Azam realized as the dream of the creation of Pakistan came true. Children are engrossed decorating stalls and streets with buntings and flags of … [Read more...] about Celebrating the spirit of freedom
From Karachi to KPK: Child labor on May Day on May 1, 2018It is highly revealing how the entire nation and indeed the whole world commemorates the 1st of May as Labour Day, while countless children sweat and struggle for their livelihood throughout the entire year. The holiday, moreover, means little for the impoverished children who work even on May Day in Karachi’s Kharadar, Meethadar, Ranchor Line, Jacob Lines, Orangi, Korangi areas as monkey, … [Read more...] about From Karachi to KPK: Child labor on May Day
When breaking news backfires on October 7, 2017The public’s memory is short. Twelve years is not too long a time to forget the devastating earthquake that struck Pakistan’s northern areas and Islamabad with its catastrophic fallout obliterating life and property and gearing NGOs, national and international governments to play their respective roles in relief measures. The media also played it’s role, but it is unfortunate … [Read more...] about When breaking news backfires
Pakistans unrecorded world record holder on June 4, 2017KARACHI: Imagine the then three-year old kid, Ali Raza from Karachi, Pakistan, affected and inflicted helplessly by polio, pursuing his passion with exemplary vim, vigour and vitality to be number one in bodybuilding and almost turning it into dream-come true reality by at least being unrecorded world recorder holder as an incapacitated body-builder! Seeing is believing how miraculously Ali Raza … [Read more...] about Pakistans unrecorded world record holder
Pakistan Day…in search of freedom on April 26, 2016The telling blow society suffers from mud-slinging, changing loyalties and misuse of power through inefficiency, corruption and nepotism needs no introduction. How can a nation with lofty ideals be on the road to welfare amid a perpetual feeling of rampant insecurity, when personal whims and fancies reign supreme and where opposition is merely for the sake of opposition? It is a question of … [Read more...] about Pakistan Day…in search of freedom
Counselling at the crossroads on July 18, 2013As a business promotion strategy, a posh institution once experimented to modernise, revolutionise and revitalise education by following the western system of counselling blindly and making a mess of it altogether. The proprietor merely wanted to introduce counselling in order to give his institution a trendy, fashionable or modern disposition but his miserly, tight-fisted and penny-pinching … [Read more...] about Counselling at the crossroads
