NLC, without doubt, has emerged as the key player on Pakistan’s logistic landscape. Editor GVS sits with DG NLC to understand the peculiar evolution of a military run organization that supports both the military and the government but relies upon a competitive market to survive -without any government funding. Can entities like NLC offer a solution to Pakistan’s myriad logistic challenges?
Pakistan is working to develop SEZs like the recent ground-breaking of Allama Iqbal Industrial City by FIEDMC near Faisalabad to benefit from China’s policy of Industrial Relocation. GVS team traces the evolution of SEZs from Ireland in 1950s to China in 1990s.
Climate Change and Water are inextricably linked; a recent World Bank report argues that Pakistan may not be as poor in water resources as it is mismanaged. GVS team analyses the way forward.
Public hanging negatively affects the psycho-social well-being of children by immunizing them to violence. The children who witness violence, such as public hangings, are more likely to reproduce it in later years.
In this hard-hitting piece, from GVS Magazine, an advocate Lahore High Court asks liberals of Pakistan that whose dignity matters in the eyes of law? Should courts be worried for the dignity of the pedophile rapist who abducts, torments, disfigures, and kills an innocent child or should they stand for the tortured families and a humiliated society? Difficult questions for a confused society!
Islamabad in latest global surveys has emerged a city safer than London, Paris and Sydney; Editor GVS sits with IGP Islamabad to understand how he and his small team have achieved this in a city that is expanding in all possible directions.
Why can not PEMRA be made stronger to handle the pressure of political and religious groups? In the fight of politics, freedom of expression must win. Zindagi Tamasha must win.
Editorial Periscope | February 2020
Our issue this month takes a look back at last year's events, which almost brought two nuclear nations to outright...
