It will be a privilege to publish letters from from readers about articles written in previous issues or giving suggestions. No letter will be printed which indulges in personalized attacks or is meaningless in the context of DJ Qibla Direction In The need for Islam to keep pace with time, as ordained in the Holy…
EU’s recent trade concession giving tariff waivers to 75 categories of textile imports from Pakistan for three years has evoked exaggerated criticism from EU textile firms contending that since 75% of these relate to textile clothing, leather and related products, it would potentially destroy 140000 jobs in the EU countries. For the record these goods…
Chilean Miners the Not many in Pakistan knew that 33 miners were trapped for more than two months deep beneath a Chilean gold and copper mine and were rescued on Wednesday 13 October 2010. A marvel of engineering and precision, first in drilling down a 2,041-foot shaft through the rock to reach the miners and…
Travelling abroad one hears a constant refrain about Pakistan, when is the anticipated change going to take place, and how is it going to happen? Even non-Pakistanis interested in Pakistan felt that something had to give and soon. Talking to the “Geneva Asia Society” in Geneva, and then at a fund-raiser for David Miliband in…
Dear Readers, Pakistan has been dubbed a ‘Failed State’ or a ‘Failing State’ especially by foreign ‘experts’ and ‘think tanks’ who more often than not do not have good insight or understanding about the intricacies, the minutiae of what makes our politics and the people of this nation tick. Pakistan faces severe challenges, but no…
Terrorist Activities in PakistanSuicide BombingsTen persons, including two children, were killed and over 65 others sustained injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up at the shrine of Abdullah Shah Ghazi in the Clifton area of Karachi in Sindh on October 7, reported The News. The twin blasts occurred within minutes of each other at…
Air Cdre (Retd) Khalid Iqbal looks at the inconsistencies in the FMCT that seeks to ban production of fissile material without taking into account existing stocks. The high level meeting called by the UNSG on 24 September, 2010, concluded without taking any decision on resolving the deadlock being faced by ‘Conference on Disarmament’ (CD), pertaining…
Brig (Retd) Muhammad Mehboob Qadir looks critically at how and where went wrong and believes the real hope for the future lies with the common people. The Military’s barrack language ordinarily is a mix of directness, officiousness and many a times, of incomprehensibility. Possibly it is a logical result of the environment of apprehension and…
AbstractForeign policy always plays a very important role in the socio-economic development, geo-political alignment, geo-strategic association and military axis among nations. In international power politics, it determines levels of isolation, sanctions or configuration of a country with others. Every country uses it as an effective tool to achieve its targeted socio-economic goals, trade volumes, internal…
IntroductionA huge 5 years foreign funded project implemented covering the whole of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa aiming at provision of rural water supply and sanitation ended in 2009. The Project was designed to improve not only the existing water and sanitation services but also hygiene behavioral patterns amongst the beneficiaries. Active community participation including capital cost-sharing and…
