While investment in youth is a promising and rewarding one for the economic and social progress of the nation, unfortunately, in Pakistan, such investment is limited, despite 60 percent of its population being below the age of 30. We look at the role one training institute set up by by the FWO with Japanese cooperation, Construction Technology Training Institute (CTTI), plays to help youth employment through prioritizing vocational skills.
Enforced disappearance has become a global problem and is not restricted to a specific region of the world. The feeling of insecurity generated by this practice is not limited to the close relatives of the disappeared but also affects their communities and society as a whole.
Former CIA station chief in Pakistan argues that fall of Kabul was inevitable because US and NATO misjudged strength of Taliban movement, imposed a system that was alien to locals and did not take regional players into confidence for a sustainable political model.
Umar Khalid Dar, a freelance writer based in Manchester, UK thinks the Taliban are the future of Afghanistan and they can bring stability. Regional powers like China, Russia, Iran, and Pakistan must spearhead the movement in recognizing the government.
According to Syed Zain Jaffery, India is infamous for its predilection for false-flag operations, and it is always concocting indirect covert schemes to harm Pakistan’s national interests, not just on its Eastern border but also on its Western border via Afghan proxies.
It was not a reclusive Mullah Omar, but Spanish- origin American philosopher, George Santayana, who had warned the world: "Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it."
Moied Javeed, a senior telecom executive in Pakistan thinks diverse thinking in Pakistan is not allowed as we are expected to conform to set societal norms from a very young age.
Dr. Nadeem Jan, a recipient of Tagma e Imtiaz, talks about how the US has made the humanitarian situation worse by freezing the aids and assets for Afghanistan and applauds Pakistan's efforts in helping Afghanistan in times of tribulations.
Dr. Farid A Malik, an Ex-Chairman of the Pakistan Science Foundation demands that official work at Government Officers Residences (GOR) must be stopped as those buildings are not put to good use and certainly will never benefit a common man.
Tariq Mahmood Khan highlights that despite having more glaciers than anywhere else in the world and its location in the Indus River Basin, Pakistan is at risk of acute water scarcity.
Asad Hussain, a practicing lawyer in Pakistan highlights the criminals that are living abroad and the nature of their crimes. These criminals are not just politicians from Pakistan but from across the world.
Dr. Farid A Malik, an Ex-Chairman of Pakistan Science Foundation discusses how reshuffling is not the solution to achieve good governance. In fact, the focus should be on the monitoring and supervision of the appointed bureaucrats.
