Cdr. (R) Sadeed A. Malik We have gone into the dirt the way things are happening all over, we should get out of it and start reconstruction and I may clarify right here that we are a completely non-political entity. We had aimed that we will be inviting majority students and younger lot of Pakistanis…
Vladimir Putin and Imran Khan were at their best in body language, and didn’t leave behind an iota of doubt in letting the world realize that they are the new allied allies. The Russian czar and the Pakistani prime minister, irrespective of upheavals in Ukraine, were straight faced and meant business. It was squarely reflected…
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt elected four times and one who led his country in the Great Depression and World War II, had quipped, “freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.” So is the case with one of world’s last decolonization agenda on Kashmir. Gripped under siege and terror for more than seven decades,…
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) launched the Asaan Mobile Account (AMA) scheme at the central bank’s headquarters in Karachi on December 13, 2021. The soft-launch event was attended by the Governor and Deputy Governor of the State Bank, CEOs of some of the largest banks in Pakistan, chairmen of the National Database Registration Authority…
As a developing country Pakistan constantly faces serious dilemmas pertaining to socio-economic and security reasons as well as in the diplomatic field. After a long struggle, Pakistan has been successful enhancing its security and with respect to diplomatic relations restoring parameters acceptable to international norms. However, the gap in the socio-economic field still needs to…
“I have a dream: cried Martin Luther King as he visualised a socially-knitted mosaic in the United States in the heydays of racism. So do I, and millions more of my contemporaries! Having eulogised peace and geostrategic cooperation for decades, the dawn of the synopsis of geo-economics is now close to our heart. Powerbrokers at the…
This scribe’s earliest memories of Yahya Khan are from the early 1960s when he arrived in Dacca as GOC 14th Division. Our dwelling then was close to the Flagstaff House with a clear view of its porch. Overview of Yahya’s early military career Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan Qizilbash was born in 1917 (Chakwal, West Punjab)….
Bismillah Ar Rahman Ar Rahim. I can deliver this talk in Urdu language as the people here understand this but the target of my talk is also Bangladesh who will not fully understand, “Aami Bangla bolte pari, but aami chesta korbo k English bolbo” so that everyone can understand. I want my words to reach…
Pakistan-Iran relations have remained mired in half-hearted initiatives, coupled with misgivings and suspicions. Notwithstanding the fact that they share more than a 1000-kilometre border, common denominator of religion and an irritant-free geostrategic commonality, they have been poles apart. Joint economic ventures as well as trade and travel format are Greek at large. Big-ticket projects were…
Mark Twain, the greatest American humorist, said, “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” Though he lived and died before World War-I, he was prophetic in essence. The post-exit scenario of the United States from Afghanistan is a perfect case study as to how a theatre of civilization, and subsequently a superpower, doomed…
