Pakistan has been plagued with child abuse, rape and sexual assault cases for years and yet nothing much of substance has been done to curtail this social degeneration! The recent episode being the rape of a woman driving late at night with her three children from Lahore to Gujranwala. Her car ran out of fuel…
PROLOGUE Climate change has become a global phenomenon. The United Nations (UN) has constituted Inter Governmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) and 155 countries have signed the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC). Climate change is mainly manifested by global warming, an issue about which the UN is extremely conscious about and is actively engaged…
Quite clearly, the inadequacy of IAF’s Su-30MKI and MiG-29 twin-engine fighters in the air superiority role led to the decision to acquire the Rafale, ostensibly a more modern and capable multi-role fighter. While both Russian fighters are highly maneuverable in a visual dogfight, as evidenced in several IAF exercises with RAF Typhoons and USAF F-15s,…
The erstwhile “Lion of Kashmir” Shaikh Abdullah dynasty is not well reputed amongst the Kashmiri people. As long as Chief Minster ship of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJ&K) is within the family, they lick the boots of whosoever rules New Delhi. The moment the mantle passes on to someone outside their family, they…
“Do not mix truth with falsehood or hide the truth knowingly”(Quran;2:42) Introduction God created the universe and humanity is here to live in obedience to God with freewill. He has granted freedom of choice to the human through intellect, reason and guidance, resulting in individual responsibility and accountability.[1] God sent the messengers to each community…
INTRODUCTION General Proliferation of covid-19 since December 2019 has engulfed the whole world with unprecedented chaos hitherto unknown to humanity. The humankind has never witnessed such a crisis situation from the time of its creation on a dimensionless scale. Widespread psychological stress and strain among the peoples of the world with underlying unabated fear and…
Imagine this: two alpha students fighting in the playground, the whole school is distracted, teachers are running around to separate the two, it is a difficult and challenging time for everyone. In the geo-political arena, this is similar to how trade wars work! What is a trade war? A trade war happens when one country…
The genesis of the 1965 War lay in the Indian effort to take over Kashmir soon after independence by inducing the Maharaja of Kashmir to accede to India rather than to Pakistan contrary to the spirit of the independence agreement. This perfidy was seemingly planned by the British Viceroy of India Lord Louis Mountbatten (and…
as a reflective exercise, this article allows for a birds’ eye view on the journey being taken by all payment service providers, and particularly VRG Pakistan as they strive to make use of the State Bank’s PSO/PSP license and literally, ‘take banking to the streets’ and under-developed areas via the e-wallet solution [*2262#] and AMA…
The Kashmir issue has become the world’s oldest unresolved dispute in the modern international system in which respect for human rights matters less for the occupational forces of India. The Indian expansionist behaviour in the South Asian region has become a major cause behind the disputed land of Kashmir, which is a bone of contention…
