The focus in Pakistan is to promote multiple initiatives of essentially the same type in the same city or region. If we take the example of Islamabad, prioritized all-round development of one high-tech special economic zone, such as NUST-based National Science and Technology Park (NSTP).
Lt Gen. (r) Asad Durrani, a retired 3-star rank general in the Pakistan Army laments how core security matters, the NSPs at times pointed out that the incumbent policymakers and executioners, usually on post for a limited time, may not be aware of the history of the issue and its complexity
China is influencing the countries around the world through its economic policies. It is heavily investing in the infrastructure of developing countries. Goods and services are flowing from and into China because of the cheap and affordable prices.
Today, India keeps on arguing that the Kashmir dispute is a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan, and hence it can’t be brought to the international fora for its peaceful resolution. Historically speaking, it is a fact that Pakistan attested the latter in the Shimla Agreement of July.
Pakistan’s geo-economic strategy is doomed to fail if it cannot build a solid foundation. China attained consistent double-digit growth over multiple decades before it embarked on its geo-economic agenda. Other main practitioners possess vast reserves of energy resources.
Abdulrazak Gurnah FRSL (born 20 December 1948) is a Tanzanian-born novelist and academic who lives in the United Kingdom. He was born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar and moved to the United Kingdom in the 1960s as a refugee during the Zanzibar Revolution.
The current situation in Ethiopia is adding to a cycle of concerns that will keep the vehicle of humanitarian crises moving for months or worse, years. Internal conflicts can affect a country more than external pressures, as the man-made humanitarian disaster in Tigray demonstrates.
Kazakhstan shares a 6,846-kilometer-long border with Russia, the world's second-longest frontier. The country hosts a Russian minority that accounts for 20 percent of the population. Ethnic Russians carry their empathy for the motherland on their sleeves.
For an average person, Islamophobia as a phenomenon emerged post 9/11 and became politically acceptable during the 2010’s decade. An examination of Western discourse on the Islamic world, however, suggests that stereotyping Muslims is an old phenomenon.
Today, due to widespread vaccinations in the world's major oil and gas-consuming economies, global oil demand is rapidly returning to pre-pandemic levels (the U.S., China, Europe). With more mobility and traffic patterns, life is returning to normal.
U.S Indo-Pacific Strategy declares China, Russia and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) as the new rivals and ramped up its new cold war in the Indo Pacific. The immediate contest is referred to as a ‘tri-polar tug of war’ between these three emerging threats in the Indo-Pacific.
While the United States has left Afghanistan, it has frozen the Afghan financial assets worth $9.5 billion and crippled its banking system due to tight restrictions, constraining in turn, the Taliban from paying its public employees and delivering essential services and goods like health care.
