HEAT WAVE STRIKING THE COUNTRY, CAUSING FIRES TO ERUPT IN HILLS
NEVER HEARD OF HEAT WAVE PRIOR TO THE SUDDEN STROKE Back in the day, when summer season were to arrive, we had never heard of anything as a heat wave. In the year of 2015, a heat stroke was heard to strike the country with immense pressure and power. At the time, it wasn’t considered […]
Devaluation of Pakistani Currency
The Pakistani currency debilitated to a proceeding deficient following the central bank that kept on to mitigate its hold over the rupees amidst ascending economic stress and conjecture that Pakistan might require International Monetary Fund assistance. The currency was consistent at 109.5 per dollar in Karachi succeeding the losses of three days. The rupee has […]
Pooling PAK-US Interests in South Asia
The recent abrupt cuts in military and financial aid of Pakistan – its front line ally in war against terror, have deteriorated the bilateral relations of the both in a similar manner. The tilt of the US towards India – a country on which Pakistan’s foreign policy depends heavily is adding fuel to fire. The […]
The Taliban, sectarianism and Chhotu: A proposed hierarchy for Operation Zarb-e-Ahan
Contemporary terrorism is evolving at an astounding pace. Terrorist organizations in Pakistan keep changing their recruitment, attack and propaganda strategies. They are innovative and adaptive to changing circumstances. And they have a tremendous regenerative capacity. On the islands of the River Indus in Rajanpur, Punjab,and the kacha areas bordering Sind and Baluchistan, a violent criminal […]
Resistance in Land Record Digitization
From “Pert Patwar” to “Pert Sarkar” Pakistan is a country where millions of land dispute cases remain stuck in the courts of law because of the inefficient and erroneous land records. Courts, lawyers and the litigants remain in ultimate confusion because of extreme duplication and cheating in the public record documents that help both the […]
There will be unparalleled devastation, unless,
Because of the excessive presence of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide in its outer atmosphere, the Sun’s rays that bombard our planet’s surface are causing it to retain more heat. Nature appointed these gases to help Earth store the Sun’s energy to keep the world mostly temperate. But these excess gasses are disrupting a […]
Digital Dividends and the Policy Impasse
Comparing National and Punjab IT Policy Drafts – 2016 Once the Abraham Lincoln said, “If I had 60 minutes to cut down a tree, I would spend 40 sharpening the ax and 20 cutting it down”. Same is true for policy formulation, which the experts call “sharpening the ax”. In Pakistan’s IT sector, sharpening the […]
Stillbirth.WK – Addressing the human
In an age of scientific and medical advancement, most of the causes of maternal mortality and morbidity should be avoidable. For a Pakistani woman, the risk of dying from pregnancy-related causes is 1-in-80 compared to 1-in-4,085 in industrialized countries. Such high maternal mortality is indicative of neglect of women’s health, and especially alarming is the […]
Shanghai, not SAARC
The impact of Pak-India inclusion within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization There was good reason to hope, in 1996, that China and Russia could work effectively with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to reduce the militarization of the region after each signed a treaty to work together. A year later, the Shanghai Five pledged to work toward the reduction […]
SCO, OBOR and Pakistan (Part – 2)
“Recipe to Progress” Pak-China Relations: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a full opportunity for Pakistan to coagulate its relations with China and The Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) will offer an edge to Pakistan to improve the mutual relations with the Chinese Academy of Railway Sciences or (CARs). Plus, the Pakistan’s entry into SCO alliance would […]