The genesis of the 1965 War lay in the Indian effort to take over Kashmir soon after independence by inducing the Maharaja of Kashmir to accede to India rather than to Pakistan contrary to the spirit of the independence agreement. This perfidy was seemingly planned by the British Viceroy of India Lord Louis Mountbatten (and…
On 13th August, 2020 UAE and Israel signed an US-brokered agreement that has come to be known as the ‘Abraham Accord’, implying that the three parties represented the three Abrahamian religions Islam, Judaism and Christianity. The announcement released following a joint call between President Trump, the Emirati crown prince and the Israeli prime minister describes the…
According to a recent Foreign Policy South Asia Brief by Ravi Agrawal the start of intra Afghan talks is uncertain as prisoner release has once again stalled. France and Australia have objected to the release of several Taliban prisoners accused of killing French and Australian nationals and soldiers. Afghanistan’s government is withholding the release of…
For thousands of years, Navies of the world duked it out for supremacy. Over the millennia, the importance of a strong Navy has grown. From the ancient Egyptian Battle of Delta to the now-infamous World War II; massive battles using aircraft carriers, submarines and more brought about the modern era of naval warfare. Ever since…
as a reflective exercise, this article allows for a birds’ eye view on the journey being taken by all payment service providers, and particularly VRG Pakistan as they strive to make use of the State Bank’s PSO/PSP license and literally, ‘take banking to the streets’ and under-developed areas via the e-wallet solution [*2262#] and AMA…
The Kashmir issue has become the world’s oldest unresolved dispute in the modern international system in which respect for human rights matters less for the occupational forces of India. The Indian expansionist behaviour in the South Asian region has become a major cause behind the disputed land of Kashmir, which is a bone of contention…
Kashmir is termed as ‘jugular vein’ of Pakistan as all major rivers originate from there. The agricultural prosperity, and power generation of the country is dependent on the waters of these rivers. It is an unfinished agenda of partition. By 15 August 1947, all the 600 princely states except Junagarh, Hyderabad, and state of Jammu…
Rid the country of debt-servicing to usher in a new paradigm of developmental budget. It’s high time to unshackle the economy from the bailout syndrome. Only then can Pakistan’s economy stand on its feet. It goes without saying that Pakistan’s economy had been in a state of mess, ineptitude and criminal negligence, especially in the…
August 05 was observed as “Yum-e-Istehsal” [Exploitation Day] by Pakistan and the Kashmiris the world over to commemorate India’s illegal annexation of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ&K) in 2019. This unilateral Indian action has violated the “Shimla Agreement” and various statutes of international laws. None of India’s neighbours is happy with its aggressive Kashmir policies….
Dear Readers, The quest to create “world-class” universities has become something of a global obsession in the past decade as governments across the world have put the development of competitive higher education and research systems at the heart of their national economic strategies. The Islamabad based National University of Science & Technology (NUST) has grown…
