Presidential Election was held on December 4, 2016 in Uzbekistan; according to Uzbekistan’s Central Election Commission acting President and Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev won the election with 88.6 percent of the vote which is 1.51 percent more than what late Islam Karimov got when he was first elected president in 1991. Uzbek Central Election CommissionAccording…
IntroductionEvery year on 12th of Rabi-ul-Awal (Islamic lunar month) majority of Muslims all over the world celebrate the birth of Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) as a token of love. This year coincidently this event was on 12-12-2016. Muslims love their Prophet more than anyone else. He had such an amazing personality that even his arch rivals…
Terrorist Activities in Pakistan Suicide AttacksAt least 62 persons were killed and more than 100 were injured in an explosion at the shrine of Shah Norani in Khuzdar District of the Balochistan province, on November 12, reports Dawn. “52 people have died and dozens injured in the incident,” confirmed Balochistan Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Ahmed…
When Pakistan was rated the second most corrupt country in 1996 by Transparency International (TI), a joke started that Pakistan was actually placed on the first position but the govt persuaded Tl to place Nigeria ahead of Pakistan. We may have had a good laugh then but almost twenty years (and many govts) later, Pakistan…
This article is dedicated to the valiant officers and men of the Pakistan Navy who continue to demonstrate unconquerable courage and stand as an impregnable wall both at sea and ashore against the sadistic and callous architects of terrorism. “If anyone slew a person unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the…
Nothing encapsulates and perhaps embodies the spirit of globalisation better than world trade, most of which is carried out via the medium of the sea. Maritime trade can thus be said to be the pivot around which the global economy as well as our collective social well-being actually revolves. The enormous natural resources on land,…
The evolving strategic competition between the great powers introduces the counterbalancing forces emerging from different states. The ongoing and unending struggle to dominate the world by expanding the political sphere of influence has remained an undeniable feature of a state’s foreign policy which rarely supports the status quo in international system. Irrefutable forces of wars…
Terrorist Activities in Pakistan Bomb/IED BlastsOne Fazal Manan, the younger brother of Malik Taj Khan, a well-known pro-Government tribal elder, was killed in a roadside bomb blast in the Tarkhoo area of Mamond tehsil (revenue unit) in Bajaur Agency in the evening of September 25, reports Dawn. Officials quoted eyewitnesses as saying that Fazal Manan…
Noting that Pakistan’s public debt remained very high, the interest bill being higher at current debt level than the country’s entire development budget, IMF President Christine Lagarde pointedly said that the perception of corruption in Pakistan was hurting its prospects to grow. Addressing our immediate political crisis inadvertently (or was it deliberate?), the IMF President…
With around 215000 confidential documents about offshore entities and their secretive off-shore accounts becoming public, the “Panama Papers” became history’s biggest leak ever. Revealing financial and attorney-client information about scores of outright criminals, drug smugglers, etc. current and former world leaders alongwith their close relatives and/or friends, were linked to tax evasion, money-laundering, etc. Having…
