Pakistan’s National Security Dilemma According to a recent corporate announcement VEON, the parent company of JAZZ, has partnered with STARLINK to launch Direct-to-Cell satellite services in VEON-operated markets, aiming to expand connectivity to remote and underserved areas. Jazz is Pakistan’s leading mobile network and digital services provider. This collaboration will integrate Starlink’s technology into Jazz’s…
The Filipino is a truly global labour force. Filipino workers can be found in hundreds of countries around the world. It is astounding to think that this archipelago in the middle of the Pacific can produce so many people who leave for so many destinations around the world. Daily, nearly 5000 people are leaving the…
Relations between Russia and North Korea have a long history. Both countries are neighbours; they share a border along the lower Tumen River, which is 17 kilometres long. When World War II ended, Korea, which had been a Japanese colony for 35 years, was liberated and then divided by the Soviet Union and US at…
The escalation of the number of infected and dead caused by corona virus are accompanied by growing restrictions for the public are bound to create panic among our population. Relatively new terms like ‘pandemic’ or ‘quarantine’ are new for many and details of their meaning have not been properly explained to the larger public with…
The three days of presenting Pakistan to the international community that gathered at Davos are over. As for many years before it has been a very busy three days with the organizers who have worked endlessly before and during the event, exhausted but happy. Depicted negatively in international media Pakistan has presented itself again in…
Founded in 1971 by German economist and entrepreneur Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum (WEF) is a not for profit organization that gained formal status in January 2015 confirming its role as an International Institution for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum’s mission is “committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic,…
