Recently the Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey H.E Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Pakistan accompanied by a high level delegation including the Minister of Economy and the Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communication. A large number of prominent entrepreneurs and industrialists from leading private Turkish companies in the sectors of energy, construction, urban…
IndoreAt the time of partition (1947) the INDORE state had an area of 9519 sq miles. His Highness MAHARAJA IDHIRAJ REJESHWAR SAWI SHREE YESHWANT RADHOLKAR BAHADUR was the ruler of INDORE. MALHAR RAO was the founder of the HOLKAR dynasty starting life as an owner of 12 districts in Malwa which he received as a…
IntroductionIn the present environment of universal turmoil especially in the post 9/11 scenario, the Muslims have become a target of universal hate propaganda and Pakistan is perceived to be at the core. The extremists justify terrorism under the garb of Islam. Thus the ignorant facilitate the anti Muslim lobbies to propagate and project all Muslims…
A young teenager wrote in his diary; “I’ll not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony”. His name was Peter O’Toole and by 1962, he surely was not a common man just like the character of T.E. Lawrence that he played. O’Toole died on December 14, 2013. He is known…
As anticipated, the Afghan Loya Jirga has endorsed a much awaited bilateral security agreement (BSA), allowing an unspecified number of American troops to stay on in the country after 2014. “Given the current situation, and Afghanistan’s need… the contents of this agreement as a whole is endorsed by the members of this Loya Jirga,” said…
Commercial diplomacy stands for further strengthening of economic integration, internationalizing, expanding across borders trade and above all stimulation to national economies. It is a new tool of engagement and creating trustworthy bilateral relations. It is the mother of all types of diplomacies in the new arena of globalization 3.0. It is the sign of economic…
Consider the theatrics of the absurd by some political clerics at the killing of the terrorist responsible for slaughtering thousands of innocent Pakistanis. Indeed pathetic that the fundamentally moderate Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) should label Tehrik-e-Taliban-i-Pakistan (TTP) Chief Hakimullah Mehsud a “Shaheed”! To safeguard their fiefdoms, politicians and clerics often turn to appeasement of militants. The Army…
Democracy is representative of the will of the majority, our major problems stem from experimenting with various models of ‘imperfect’ democracies. A social state in a true democracy is one in which everyone has equal rights without hereditary or arbitrary differences of rank or privilege. By this simple yardstick alone, do we really have democracy…
According to both legal opinion and mass public perception, prima facie the case against Gen Pervez Musharraf for treason is legally a “slam dunk”, he is guilty as charged. According to Article 6 the extra-constitutional measures Musharraf used on Nov 3, 2009 to remove the SC judges is “treason”. Will the trial court have the…
Power is nothing more than the ability to get others to do what you want. For doing that you require tools of coercion or payment, or “hard power”, and tools of attraction, or “soft power”. Soft power is when a state, an organization or even an individual exercises power with means other than violence and…
