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…
This article is being outlined when the FIFA World Cup in going on in Qatar and this reminded me and actually forced me to write about the great leadership of the Qatar Government and the will of the ruling Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani. I can recall those days when Qatar was bidding…
The arrival of Narendra Modi in Indian politics as the fourteenth prime minister of India in 2014 started a new era in Indian politics because in the rule of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) many revolutionary steps were taken under the leadership of Modi. The influence of Modi’s ideology on Indian politics designed several political,…
The current global order has witnessed a pragmatic shift with the rise of China through the notion of economic power. On account to this, maintaining constructive relationships with its neighboring countries has become a principle strategy for its economic development and promotion of foreign trade.Geographically, China shares a common border with four (Bhutan, India, Nepal…
So tell the tale — perhaps they will reflect. [Koran 7:176] The Word IslamThe Arabic word ‘Islam’ means “to turn oneself over to, to resign oneself, to submit.” In religious terminology it means submission or surrender to God, or to God’s will. The Koran uses the term and its derivatives in about seventy verses[1] but…
So tell the tale — perhaps they will reflect. [Koran 7:176]The Koran and The Messenger Introduction The book, “The Vision of Islam” by American Professor couple Dr. Sachiko Murata and Dr. Professor William C. Chittick [Shamas-ud-din Chittick] covers the four dimensions of Islam as outlined in the Hadith of Gabriel, practice, faith, Ihsan/ spirituality, and…
Rarely a recent conflict has been more replete with lessons for the policy making elite than the Ukraine-Russia war. This marks the end of the optimistic bonhomie of the 90s and definitively starts another era of a new Cold War between the US and its allies on one side and Russia and China aligned nations…
Pakistan is now over 75 years old and in all these decades Pakistan has seen multitudes of ups and downs. Many enormous milestones have been achieved. Pakistan and its people have played a critical role not only in the region but in the international community as well. The evolution of Pakistan has been marked by…
Pakistan and Tajikistan have always enjoyed the benefits of their cooperative ties in multiple domains, and the governments of both states have developed various formats of collaboration in social, economic, and political dimensions. The geographical proximity between Pakistan and Tajikistan generally has let the two leaders consider each other as close neighbors. A short strip…
