Executive Summary An opportunity for IranEven twugh the new chief of the international nuclear watchdog body has pledged to resolve the West’s ongoing stand-off with Tehran over the latter’s nuclear programme, the issue has become knottier than ever before in the aftermath of last month’s presidential election in Iran. Yukiya Amano, who was appointed as…
One has to hand it to Asif Zardari, on the face of it he has politically out- maneuvered Mian Nawaz Sharif yet again, or has he? Despite being under pressure lately Zardari has notable accomplishments. The success of sorts in Swat has been bought at a heavy price, the sacred blood of our young martyrs…
US President Obama on July 13, 2009 ordered US security officials to look into allegations that the Bush Administration resisted efforts to investigate a CIA-backed Afghan warlord over the killings of hundreds of pro-Talibaan prisoners in 2001. The prisoners were in the custody of Gen Abdul Rashid Dostum, a prominent Afghan warlord who served as…
The Supreme Court (SC) had given notice to former President Gen (Retd) Pervez Musharraf to explain his position in the “Judges Case” on July 29, 2009. Musharraf decided not to comply with the SC notice on the evasive legal technical grounds that it was not served on him. I have known Pervez Musharraf for over…
In a country affected by low intensity conflicts, economic mismanagement and political corruption at all levels, constituting a foreign policy which can protect its security interests is really a cumbersome job but even then there are some red lines which nations draw and are not meant to be crossed at any cost. These red lines…
Historians must give credit to India that over the past 62 years, it has always been the first South Asian state to introduce new lethal weapon systems into the region. The Pokhran nuclear test in May 1974, ironically called ‘The Smiling Buddha’, or 24 years later, the unprovoked ‘Pokhran-II’ May 1998 nuclear tests testify to…
Recent Elections and the Result “Most remarkably, Rafsanjani’s son told a visiting American reporter before the June 2005 presidential election that, if elected, his father would change Iran’s Constitution to reduce Khamenei’s power by making the position of the Supreme Leader a ceremonial role akin to the King of England” (Karim Sadjadpour -‘Reading Khamenei: The…
“The aim of the education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think-rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men”, Bill Beattie. The history of education according to Diefer Lenzen – the president of…
Appraisal System in Pakistan The scarlet thread of any successful management system in any organization hinges around the system of performance appraisal adopted in that organization. Performance appraisal is the systematic evaluation of individuals with respect to their performance on the job and their potential development.1 Hence it can be defined as a process by…
