Introduction It was established in Part-1, (previous issue of DJ) that the age of Hazrat Ayesha (RA) has been misreported due to historical, reporting error and poor memory of the narrator. Quoting unreliable/doubtful/abrogated Hadiths is blasphemy, derogatory, and taken offensive by Muslims. It is time now that the Muslim scholars publicly announce abrogation of this…
According to CGAP, it is estimated that around 1.2 billion adults worldwide were able to gain access to formal financial accounts for the first time between 2011 and 2017, which represents a 35% growth over a six-year period. This tremendous feat was achieved due to the efforts of players other than banks such as mobile…
Introduction Without addressing “financial inclusion” on a war footing it will be impossible to close the gap between the haves and have-nots with respect to benefitting from the banking system. Their lives must be brought into the financial comfort zone by access to services, products and commodities presently available only to limited number of citizens…
Despite entering the era of digital age the approach of our government institutions, with control of our resources in the hands of the few, is to act in accordance with their normal modus operandi and delay the process. This is done to the detriment of the masses and is a true reflection of the colonial era…
In its broadest definition “Culture” is “the way we do things”, corporate culture is the way an organization is organized. Defined by the people who manage and work in the organization it partly comes about naturally. On the other hand, Corporate identity is a western term to describe ways for making a company distinctive and…
The troubled history of India-Pakistan relations has always remained a gravitational point of international academic debates. The intellectual circles from different corners of the world have produced sufficient literature on the changing dimensions of the India-Pakistan rivalry based on their varying viewpoints. Thus, the contesting arguments of global intellectual communities witnessed similar trends in the…
Context The New Cold War paradigm and great power rivalry framework is settling in and beginning to define international affairs. After Europe and Pacific, the Middle East is emerging as another hotly contested theater between the global powers. While Ukraine has been consuming most of the media bandwidth, matters related to Iran’s nuclear program and…
1. PREAMBLE 1.1 There is a common saying that women, work and weather are unpredictable in Europe and these factors may change anytime without warning. While European nations have mostly overcome the deleterious impacts of such negativities, the developing world is still struggling to conserve the natural environment. However, at the present, Planet Earth is…
Imagine two opposing parties slugging it out in a court of law and then both accepting the ruling wholeheartedly afterwards. Imagine indicted individuals coming to court or jail without displaying victory signs. Imagine the truth actually coming out during a hearing. Imagine the competence, or lack thereof, of the prosecution and defence open for public…
In the last three decades countries like China along with Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore and South Korea have achieved enormous levels of growth in trade, education, development, research and economic stability. This rise of these countries has far-reaching effects on the regional politics of Asia and on the politics of global dominance. The center of…
