A Kashmiri family’s struggle from Baramulla to Ludhiana to Lahore
My great grandfather migrated from a small village called 'Reshi Wund' located in tehsil and district Baramulla in the year 1890. The migration was...
Universal health insurance in KPK manifests PM Imran Khan’s priorities
Imran Khan had once said that the Prime Minister of a country can be considered its father of the nation. The emerging humanitarian angle...
Indo-Pak Partition; The Last Laugh of British Imperialism
August 14; streets bleed green and white and the voices echoes “Pakistan Zindabad”. August 15; the voices of “Jay Hind” confined the environment. In...
The US brokered “Abraham Accord” between Israel and UAE
On 13th August 2020, UAE and Israel signed a US-brokered agreement that has come to be known as the ‘Abraham Accord’, implying that the...
Pakistan-Saudi Arabia relationship has tremendous potential
The remarks by Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi earlier this month wherein he described the Organization of Islamic Cooperation's (OIC) response on the...
Pensions: a never ending flow of money from the exchequer?
The pensions burden on the national exchequer has crossed the trillion-rupee mark. At Rs 1.1 trillion it is about 15 percent of the budget,...
In Modi’s India, nuclear bombs have become more dangerous!
On August 6, 1945, the first nuclear bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, Japan by the United States of America. The cloud...
Protecting land records from mafias
The institutional collapse of civilian institutions is grossly underestimated. The chain of command no longer exists in most government departments. Even able officers have...
The Grand Assembly and release of Taliban prisoners
On August 9, the Council of Afghan Elders (Loya Jirga) approved the release of the 400 remaining Taliban prisoners in custody. The Afghan President...
UAE-Israel deal: A betrayal of the Palestinian people?
In a move that has jolted Middle East’s geopolitics, on August 13, 2020, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) decided to ‘recognise’ the State of...
Status Quo & Absence of durable closure
Immediately after the 2002 elections, General Pervez Musharraf called up the maverick MQM leader Altaf Hussein to request him for support in government formation....
Pakistan’s Youth for change
The outgoing country director of World Bank (WB), Ilango Pachamuthu who hails from Sri Lanka made interesting remarks about Pakistan and its bulging youth...