Editorial – Magazine

What you have in your hands is just the fourth issue of ‘Global Village Space Magazine’ – and we have already made our job...

Zulfi Bhutto: The man and his legend lives on

Editor GVS analyses how in Bhutto’s phenomenal success and tragic failure, Pakistanis can discover themselves with all their hopes, aspirations, and fears. In a well-researched piece, he questions: Was he overthrown in a CIA-sponsored political agitation – Spring revolution of 1977?

The founding of PTI: From an idea to a social revolution

An objective commentary on Pakistan-Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) would remain inconclusive without an understanding of the environment in which it was formed. Contextual understanding explains that...

Pakistan’s faithful and Resilient Christians in the face of adversity

For the last three consecutive years, terrorists have targeted Christians on every Easter. Suicide bombers in March 2015 hit two Sunday services in Youhanabad,...

Losing a generation: The expense of malnutrition

A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts -Wordsworth These beautiful words by Wordsworth ring hollow...

Dr. Vaqar Ahmed speaks on CPEC reliance for Pakistan

There are two points to consider when discussing Pakistan’s reliance on CPEC. First, what other options do you have? For example, if you want...

Concerns and predictions on CPEC reliance for Pakistan – Dr. Aadil

If CPEC is an over-reliance then what is the other substitute for Pakistan. I don’t see an alternative, I don’t see any other country...

Concerns and predictions on CPEC reliance for Pakistan – Dr. Atiq Rehman

Since CPEC loans are not calibrated. We don’t know what the costs and benefits are, whether they are concessional loans or market loans. Sure,...

Pakistan’s World of Cement: Opportunities and Challenges

Cement is arguably the most important, and widely used, building material in the modern age. It’s used in homes, in office buildings, roads, bridges...

Is CPEC a chess piece in Great Power Rivalry?

“There have been real accomplishments in CPEC’s first phase – but the international context for the scheme still needs to be fixed”. In at...

China interested in free trade and providing more jobs: Ambassador Yao

GVS: Pakistan China relations have often been described as "deeper than the ocean, higher than the Himalayas" what defined these relations from early 1960's when...

Jinnah’s dream of South Asia is only possible when India joins CPEC

The problem with both India and Pakistan, which is also a major source of the unending hostility between our two countries, is that we...