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The family of nations is balancing on the edge of an abyss as mushrooming religious and ethnic intolerance becomes the norm. Western as well as non-Western societies have helped pave the road towards the abyss: the West by abandoning the post-World War.

With a median age of 23 years, Pakistan is a predominantly young country confronted with a number of structural challenges. Continued investment in the technology sector often distinguishes developed nations from developing nations.

Middlemen or defense agents were banned for years after the multi-million dollar scandal in the 1980s involving alleged kickbacks paid to politicians and officials in the purchase of Bofors guns when Congress was in power. India keeps learning the wrong lessons from defense scams.

A high-profile meeting of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has adopted a landmark resolution on the major achievements and historical experience of the CPC's 100 years of endeavors, according to a communique released on Thursday. The Party has proved to be a great, glorious, and correct party.

Soon after the 1965 war, Sheikh Mujib ur Rahman launched his Six points movement for provincial autonomy. Ayub Khan’s government asserted that this movement was using the issue of provincial autonomy as a smokescreen and its real aim was the secession of East Pakistan.

According to Dr. Farid A Malik, an Ex-Chairman Pakistan Science Foundation, PTI was the first political party that organized 'Think Tanks' which worked under the guidance of Comrade Ahsan Rashid Sahib. Policies were formulated and then presented to the Chairman.

The Republic Day violence at the Lalkilla in Delhi is another step that is hastening the reckoning of PM Narendra Modi with deliberate hatching a conspiracy to turn India into a Hindu nation. But the surprise is amazing because it is coming so fast one after another.

China is accused of pursuing a diplomatic policy of debt trap, which means luring poor countries into high-interest loan deals for building unsustainable infrastructure projects and when there is a financial crisis for repaying back the loan.

Saudi Arabia’s proposition of a more tolerant ‘moderate’ Islam is further called into question by its failure to legalize non-Muslim worship and the opening of non-Muslim houses of worship in the kingdom as well as its equation of atheism with terrorism, laments Dr. James M Dorsey.

According to the South Asia Terrorism Portal, Pakistan saw 319 terrorism-related incidents in 2020 and 169 associated deaths of civilians. For want of systemic singular response to counter-terrorism in Pakistan, one has to refer to foreign material of comparable jurisdictions.

Pakistan cannot afford to have an uncompetitive export-oriented sector. The country must stop following an outdated import-substitution policy that relies on levying protectionist duties as it has contributed to stagnancy in technological innovation and an anti-export bias.