For Pakistan credit and debit cards alone are not enough, mobile phone devices probably will become the primary tool for payments. A young demography and increasingly tech-savvy generations ensures a unique role for mobile payment services. ‘Fintech’ short for financial technology-refers to technology-led innovation in financial services aiming to exploit the gaps in coverage and…
Within a very short period the COVID-19 pandemic has broken up economic, social and also intellectual traditions existing for decades and were thought to be unchangeable. The way we look at ourselves intellectually and the rest of the world has started changing the past, present and future. The renewed scathing critique of racism that started…
Introduction Quran is the ultimate, final and the only book of guidance for humanity till eternity. It is well protected by Allah and complete, there is no doubt about it. The Quran is the only authentic written text. Quran asks the believers to obey Allah and His Messenger Muhammad (pbuh). While Quran provides the guidance…
A lot of the concerns mentioned in the previous article generally comes down to standards of project management, part of which includes identifying multiple possible means to an end, and equally considering for worst case scenarios. Issues of mismanagement, low adoption of technology, and incidents of corruption were unexpected, as these were all previously handled…
Transparency and learning lessons from mistakes once made is no virtue of most countries. Even when after a disaster a commission is installed to find out what went wrong and who was responsible there is a glaring lack of consequences for the people who made the mistakes and for the structures that lead up to…
Delaying of decisions to defy needed change is fatal any country. A well known proverb says ‘Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.’ The ongoing pandemic has put severe problems in front of our country, its economy, the state institutions, etc. and decision making is part of this. Many problems had already…
Bombs Blasts/IEDs Two school teachers were killed in a motorcycle bomb explosion in Damadola area in Mamond tehsil (revenue unit) of Bajaur District on June 4, reports The News. Locals said that Abdur Rahman, a teacher of a private school and resident of Bara Damadola, and Ismail, a Government schoolteacher and resident of Lar Kanday…
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic all the nations across the globe are engulfed in a war like situation. The pandemic has at large shaken the global geopolitical and the socio economic fabric of the world. Countries and the global leaders are levelling their best to overcome the pandemic outcomes however no big successes have been accredited…
The 1962 war between India and China was triggered by the unresolved border dispute between the two young republics that became independent nations in 1947 and 1949 respectively. Australian Journalist Neville Maxwell had been working in New Delhi as correspondent and observed at first hand the drama that ended with a crushing Indian defeat. In…
One of the most impeding characteristics in Pakistani society is the striving of people to do favours and to get favours in return, whether in cash and/or kind. To live life in Pakistan one needs patronage and/or protection for simple things like going to an office and applying for whatsoever. Even for access to a…
