Dear Readers, The first twenty years of the 21st century witnessed significant global transformations one being Eurasia, the landmass encompassing Europe and Asia covering 35% of the earth’s surface and home to five billion people in over 90 countries, producing 65% of global GDP. Both continents were organically bound since millennia by trade, conquests and…
Despite the ongoing global economic crisis being aggravated by the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic, this year has brought outstanding results for the KHORGOS “dry port” on the border between Kazakhstan and China, which links China with Central Asia, Russia and Europe. On October 6, 2020 when after less than five years of its opening,…
On his way home from work on a Friday afternoon in a quiet suburban town north-west of Paris an attacker, later identified as an 18-year-old of Chechen origin, who came to France as a refugee, cornered Samuel Paty, a middle-school history and civics teacher on the street, and stabbed him repeatedly. Witnesses say the killer…
Ten days before the Elections in 2016 Hilary Clinton was leading most election forecasts, for all practical purposes Trump had already lost. However a forecast is a forecast only and nothing more; an election is only decided on Election Day, everyone can make up or change his/her mind right in front of the ballot box….
Pakistan Meteorological Department has confirmed that Karachi received the heaviest rain in a single day ever in its history when 231 mm rain fell in just 12 hours, the highest rainfall record over the last 90 years. Hub Dam water level crossed 338.5 feet, the highest level in 13 years. During August 2020 only, Karachi…
The son of Waleed, one of the most respected of Quraish clan elders in the time of our Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), Khalid showed early prowess as a more than ordinary soldier, being physically very strong, aggressive in nature and extremely courageous. at the Battle of Uhud, the first of his two battles against the Muslims,…
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…
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…
