Being a developing country with a high inflation rate, Pakistan implements full dollarization for its industrial imports. This itself refutes the concept of debilitating exchange rates affecting the trade of the country. Pakistan’s goods and services exports amounted to nearly $31 billion.
The Russell Tribunal focused on genocide, de-colonization, the phenomenon of settler-colonialism including land-grabs, coercive patriotism, and the theme of nuclear war and threat to global peace. Different witnesses from IIOJK also narrated their accounts of atrocities faced by themselves.
The country, which was the front-line ally was either stigmatized with the double game or responsible for the creation of the ‘Frankenstein Monster’ and ironically attacked by its own allied forces. The state of Pakistan was sandwiched between two opposing forces: the allied and radicals.
A cursory look into various constitutions endorses the same for example the US guarantees freedom of speech to every citizen under the First Amendment to Constitution 1787 however imposes Restrictions on incitement, defamation, fraud, and obscenity,
Pakistan’s fear of strategic encirclement by a hostile Indian and anti-Pakistan government in Kabul is a sound threat, substantiated facts from history. However, the current discourse is flawed in two ways; first, India is not the crucial factor in this assessment of encirclement;
It was time for the right-wing group of leaders in BJP and Shiv Sena, as well as PM Mrs. Indira Gandhi’s majoritarian politics. Some of them could hardly cover themselves with the fig leaf of secularism. The right-wing Hindutva groups were not just unabashed.
Unfortunately, after the painful experience of truncation of Pakistan, we seem to have learned no lessons and are once again striding the dangerous path. Instead of making preparations to recapture the lost pride, we seem to be fast losing our direction.
27th December marked the 224th birthday of Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, famously known by his pen name, ‘Ghalib’. He was born in 1797, in erstwhile India that was ruled by the Mughal Empire, shortly before the British arrived. Ghalib wrote in both Urdu and Persian languages.
Former ISI chief Lt General Asad Durrani said the OIC has proved to be good for nothing once again. According to him, no immediate action plan and pledges for humanitarian aid to Afghanistan were seen. The OIC summit in Islamabad has diverted global attention to the war-torn country assets
Keeping in view the realist paradigm of power maximization, the ever-growing strong relationship between Pakistan and China is viewed with concern by India. It has raised significant alarm bells in Indian political and military circles.
For Pakistan, clean, renewable energy is the answer to two looming challenges, first is the rising threat of climate change and consequent environmental disasters, and secondly, the expensive electricity generated by imported oil and coal power plants financed by Chinese loans.
Central to this has been the campaign for the hearts and minds of the local population. In fact, it appears that even now, the Taliban in cities are actively trying to construct legitimacy for themselves but the international community seems to have other plans for the newly made government.
