Most recently, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visited Qatar. During the visit, both countries signed a “game changing deal” of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). Now Pakistan can import up to 3.75 million tons of liquefied natural gas a year from Qatar. Main Focus of the Visit The main focus of the PM Sharif’s visit included…
Headquartered in Geneva, the World Economic Forum (WEF) is independent, impartial and not tied to any special interests. For progress to happen, people from all walks of life with drive and influence must come together to make positive change. Committed to improving the state of the world, this rather extraordinary international organization for public-private cooperation…
Economics is a complicated discipline and happiness too. Both have their own parameters, dimensions, dynamics and directions. Both also have their limitations, litmus tests and the last but not the least, long term plans, policies, projects and programs. Now it has become a hot topic among the policy makers, think-tanks, researchers and academia because of…
The US Defence Intelligence Agency Director Lieutenant General Vincent R Stewart said in his recent testimony to the US Senate Armed Services Committee that Pakistan’s military operation Zarb-e-Azb and the Karachi operation have been successful in reducing violence in Pakistan: “Counter-insurgency operations along Pakistan’s Western border and paramilitary operations in Karachi have had successes in…
Abstract In the changing dynamics of global politics, the burgeoning sea trade is getting rapidly complex with more focus on commercial activities and resultant economic prosperity. In this politics, Gwadar port has its unique strategic and prominent geopolitical importance because it would connect three regions, namely oil, gas and uranium rich Central Asia, strategically important…
Balochistan would remain the soft belly of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) for a decade or two. And in this context, the current security sate in Balochistan is likely to stay by and large the same. Internal disturbance and foreign interference are likely to continue. Direct and indirect foreign interference is likely to remain a…
Washington’s management of its wobbly and contested Middle East policy has just become whole lot more difficult and complicated with the worsening of tensions between Riyadh and Tehran following the recent Saudi execution of an elderly Shiite cleric on dubious terrorism charges. On the one hand, there’s Saudi Arabia, the uncontested leader of the Arab…
IntroductionDr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal is the best articulated Muslim response to Modernity that the Islamic world has produced in the 20th century. His response for a creative engagement with the conceptual paradigm of modernism at a sophisticated philosophical level through his prose writings, mainly his The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam which presents his…
Amr bin Al-Aas (rta) was born in a very rich high-class family of Makkah. His father, As bin Wa’al, owned a business of perfume trading, by joining which Amr (rta) had the opportunity to travel to neighboring countries and gain great experience of dealing with different people. Already in his young age, Amr (rta) established…
The Republic of Uzbekistan is full of wonders, it has been a hub of tourism, natural beauty and cross culture and it has now become a rich country for tourists. It has unique location at the crossroads of the Silk Road which has always connected people, minds, projects and civilizations. Tourism: A Global Force Tourism…
