National Logistic Cell: Embracing new challenges of Pakistan’s evolving industrial and trade landscape

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?

Special Economic Zones – A Global Overview

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 Mismanagement of water resources in Agriculture sector

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 Hangings: Draconian or Necessary Evil

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.

Public Hangings: Violation of Human Dignity

Ahmad Pansota, a young barrister from Lahore, argues that public hangings may traumatize society without achieving anything in terms of deterrence.

Child abuse & Public Hanging: Whose dignity matters?

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: Safer than London, Paris and Sydney?

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.

March 8 International Women’s Day

Ashifa Fatyana, Punjab’s Minister for Woman Development, talks to GVS and explains the initiatives her government is taking for women empowerment.

1917 Movie: Great Piece of Art and Epic Storytelling

Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes returns with a harrowing film set in World War I that recounts the story told by his grandfather. The...

Can Frozen 2 Become Highest Animated Grosser?

When the first Frozen hit theatres in 2013, it was unfathomable to think it would go on to become the highest-grossing animated picture of...

Poor Zindagi Tamasha and Weak Censorship Board

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.

Looking back, moving forward

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...