Perfume: German TV series explores dark secrets of human psyche
Katharine was a beautiful party singer. On her funeral all mourners were men. Elegant Nadja Simon, super serious Mathias Kohler and prosecutor Grunberg could...
Kalamkari: Ancient Art of Fabric Painting
The term Kalamkari is of Persian roots, and is derived from the words kalam; meaning pen, and kari; meaning craftsmanship, collectively meaning drawing with...
How can Muslims stop living in history? GVS Exclusive Interview with Prof. Ahmet T....
GVS Assistant Editor Farah Adeed sat down with Dr. Ahmet T. Kuru, Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University, USA, to discuss...
Challenges faced by our Agriculture Sector
The agriculture sector is the backbone of Pakistan’s economy. It contributes around 18.9% to Pakistan’s GDP and employs 42.3% of its labour force (Ministry...
CEO FACE talks about FFC’s farmers program
What is FACE? What it stands for? Why & How it came about?Food Security and Agriculture Center for Excellence, referred to as FACE is...
FACE – FFC’s Farmer’s Support Program
The Food Security and Agriculture Center of Excellence (FACE), set up in 2019, by the Fauji Fertilizer Company (FFC), is a registered not-for-profit initiative...
China and the history of its Special Economic Zones
At the cusp of the 1980s, China started a series of reforms that would result in it becoming the fastest growing economy in the...
Why Pakistan’s SEZ law may need fixing?
Recently, the PM gave the go-ahead to 3 new special economic zones (SEZs), including National Science & Technology Park, Islamabad, JW-SEZ China-Pakistan SEZ Raiwind...
SEZs are the lynch pin of Govt’s Industrial Policy
A Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is an economic and tax policy lenient area used to promote industrial growth in a country. It promotes trade,...
SEZs and why Pakistan needs them
PTI government has made the creation of jobs as a topmost priority. One major way to create these is via industrial development, and Special...
PIEDMC: Role Model of Public-Private Partnership
PIEDMC – Punjab Industrial Estates Development & Management Company - is a section 42 company incorporated under Companies Ordinance of 1984. It is an...
Why QABP: What Investors need to know about QABP?
When investors think why QABP may be a good investment they need to start from the magical word: PIEDMC. Punjab Industrial Estates Development Management...
Quaid-e-Azam Business Park: SEZ fit to be part of CPEC
Almost all sectors of industry are taking a keen interest in the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) being built near Sheikhupura. More than 100 industrial...
Pandemic jolts governments away from Neoliberalism
The last time the world saw an economic recession of this magnitude was during the Great Depression of the 1930s, which exposed the limit...
Universal Health Coverage: A Revolution for the Poor
It is primarily because of the disparity between the quality of private and public sector healthcare in Pakistan that even the poor go to...
Poliovirus Eradication: An uphill battle for Pakistan
The country’s health security is an essential part and parcel of its national security and polio affects Pakistan in more than one way. As...
EXCLUSIVE: KP minister Taimur Khan Jhagra talks big, bold ideas
Taimur Khan Jhagra talks about the monumental Sehat Card Program and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s road towards universal health coverage. He talks in depth about the...
Social Media: Regulation Challenges for Pakistan
With the advent of the digital age and a technological revolution that has accompanied it, the space enjoyed by traditional media for the flow...
Building a more inclusive and connected Pakistan
Global digitalization and the move towards a more inclusive and connected world has been a widely debated topic for decades. Pushed in the beginning...
Social media in government is a game changer
As the entire country is pinned down into submission by the unbreakable shackles of the current lockdown, people are forced to form an actual...
Pakistan’s social media banning spree mainly hurts digital employment opportunities
Pakistan has from time and again enacted social media bans on websites (YouTube, Facebook, TikTok) mostly over objectionable content which hurts the sentiments of...
Shibli Faraz: Pakistan’s Information Minister Speaks
Most of the world no longer has an Information Minister, other than a few countries such as Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, etc., what exactly is...
With China menacing India’s northern borders, India looks for military allies.
With the People’s Liberation Army of China menacing India’s northern borders it is quite natural for India to look for military allies.On October 27,...
Pakistan’s strategic options after Indo-US Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement?
Days before the US elections, a significant development has occurred between India and the US, which will affect the strategic stability of the region....
Disruptive President: Trump 2016-20 legacy on US Foreign Policy
The last four years under President Trump were probably unprecedented in US history for the number of changes made on the foreign policy front...
Goodbye Trump! View from Beijing!
After “four dark years”, and three days of uncertainty, it is time for President Trump to bid the Oval Office farewell.The whole world watched...
FATF on Pakistan: Politics of Course – but where do we stand?
What is FATF? Financial Action Task Force (FATF), is an independent inter-governmental watchdog to combat global money laundering, terrorism financing and the financing of...
Biden: New Man in the White House; Pakistan’s way forward?
Elections 2020 have stained the American democracy, and the toxic political divide will continue to polarize the US politics for an indefinite period –...
Editorial – Magazine
America’s Divisive Elections When the dust will finally settle – and unless a strange thing happens beyond our conception – Joe Biden will take oath...