Disasters have been taking place in the Pathfinder Group before also involving loss of life/property. However, on 13 September 22 around 3:30 pm something entirely different happened i.e. experiencing a windstorm followed by rain in one of our facilities in Karachi due to which the upper story of our Majeed Camp Building was completely damaged….
The seminar was held on 26th October 2022 on “Pakistan & Argentina Relations” at the Quaid-e-Azam House Museum, Institute of Nation Building under the auspices of Karachi Council on Foreign Relations (KCFR) with his Excellency Mr. Leopoldo Francisco Sahores, Ambassador of Argentina to Pakistan. The event was moderated by Cdr (R) Sadeed A Malik, Secretary…
In the summer of 2006, a group of British citizens of Pakistani descent were arrested for planning to use liquid bombs on multiple trans-Atlantic passenger flights. After long trials, many were convicted and sentenced to long prison terms. It was one of the largest counter-terrorism investigation in United Kingdom (UK) utilizing all law enforcement resources….
PTI will most probably win the elections in 2023 as already predicted. Khan’s recent U-turn on the conspiracy spiel comes as no surprise. The backtracking statements, perhaps means a venture into a more stable outlook for the party’s political future. If they come back into power, the real question is: How will they fix Pakistan’s…
Pakistan has been urging the international community, including the United States, to comprehensively engage with the Taliban. But Islamabad’s true interests are unclear, as anti-Pakistan terrorist groups freely operate in Afghanistan and Pakistan–Taliban relations remain poor. During Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s September 2022 trip to the United States, he repeatedly argued for full…
The war of 1971 is an unforgettable event in Pakistan’s history because the outcome of this war was not in favour of Pakistan and placed the government of Pakistan under heavy pressure of regional and global politics. It was an exceptional point in Pakistan’s political history where the nation faced a big loss, and the…
Bomb/IED BlastsA tribal elder was killed and five others, including a Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader, were injured on November 8 after their vehicle was targeted with a remote-control bomb near Chamrok Chowk in Khuzdar town (Khuzdar District) of Balochistan, reports Dawn. Police said the bomb exploded when PPP leader Abdul Latif Shahwani was travelling…
A national economy which depends on income from just one source will always be vulnerable, especially when that income comes from non-renewable resources. The prosperity of an economy usually relies on the successful implementation of economic diversification. In 2016, Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman unveiled a new five-year economic strategy, “Vision 2030”, to transform…
Consider these eye-watering statistics: inflation galloping at double digits, steepest rise in interest rates for 33 years, a two-year recession to look forward to, unemployment nearly doubling by 2025, longest downturn since records began! This is not the outlook for a developing, third world nation. It is the economic forecast for one of the developed,…
In his poem “the Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, the classic English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge gave the message that has become a metaphor for killing the innocent and what follows once the sin is done. It became known as “killing the Albatross”. It is alluring that these metaphors of classic literature remain relevant even…
