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…
Dear Readers, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi won the 2019 elections based mostly on anti Muslim and anti-Pakistan slogans, that his policies would be entirely anti-Muslim and anti Pakistan was a given. On 5 August 2019, Articles 370 and 35A of the Indian Constitution were revoked, stripping the State of Jammu and Kashmir of its…
Since its inception Pakistan is supposed to be a parliamentary democracy and a federation. But the rules of functioning for such a set-up have never been understood by the rulers. From the very beginning personal, family and group interests of the civilian rulers have ruled the roost and political parties have been created as a…
Today is the first anniversary of India’s single-handed introduction of the way they think the Kashmir problem would be solved. On 5 August 2019, the Government of India revoked the special status of special autonomy, granted under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution to Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir—a region administered by India as a result…
Mass poverty and pandemics are both facts of life that involve millions of people at the same time. The same can be said for relief measures thereof they have to cater to millions of people after those have been identified at the same time. In a country like Pakistan with over 200 million people to…
Beautifully situated on the shores of the Bosphorus straits connecting the Marmara Sea to the Black Sea and regarded as the border between Europe and Asia. Istanbul is one of the most important cities of Eurasia, a transcontinental metropolis of 15 million today. Founded around 660 BC as “Byzantine”, it was renamed in 330 AD…
The corona pandemic and the new social movements created by it has stirred up apart from racism – another critical topic: “colonialism” and how to deal with colonial history. With pandemics isolation fostering frustration, the dispute has turned violent in many places. Protesters rallied in Columbia to demand the confederate flag’s removal from South Carolina’s…
Dear Readers, under the Ehsaas program the government took the bold initiative to support citizens in need during the COVID-19 pandemic which is responsible for a global economic slowdown. the Ehsaas program has distributed PKR 153 billion to over 12.5 million beneficiaries. Despite introducing innovative measures like the so called “smart lockdown” to curb the…
Despite the ongoing pandemic hitting India more than China, India has been engaging in blunders like anti Muslim policies and the Kashmir settlement laws in the disputed area of Indian Held Kashmir (IHK) in utter disregard to UN Resolutions and international laws and norms. Force multiplying their problems Modi and his BJP Govt is now…
History teaches us that the falling apart of empires not only creates many successor states but the relation between those states and their neighbours are often marred by conflicts, conflicts that include quarrels about who is the rightful successor of the previous empire and multiple border conflicts. Furthermore, the successor states have to find for…
