According to investigative journalist Steve Coll’s article in the New Yorker, India, and Pakistan, after intensive track II diplomacy, had very nearly reached an agreement that would have demilitarized Jammu & Kashmir.

Capitalism run by the West and the international corporations and international mafias is the promoters of materialism, corrupt practices, war mongering, conspiracies, intrigue, and other vices.

Dictatorships are hardly converted into democracy as observed from North Korea to Russia to the Middle East to South America. Fortunately, in Pakistan, the masses need a genuine spark and movement sets off.

Climate disruption has terrible national impacts in developing nations, including interstate conflict, terrorism, cyberattacks, fiscal crises, high unemployment, and severe social instability.

For a few days news has been circulating that the Prime Minister of Pakistan along with a high-level delegation including Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is paying a visit to China. But what is unique about it?

Technological developments in one way or another are pushing the rival states towards a never-ending arms race. International actors are becoming more anarchic and selfish to avail technological dominance.

If anyone thinks that by having a ‘mela’, on the GT Road for the next 5 or 6 days concluding with a musical evening in Islamabad in some isolated park, enough would have been demonstrated to this government to step down, then this thought, expectation or hope is totally misleading.

The Army and the ISI act as the first-line defense against all external and internal threats to the integrity of Pakistan. They have played their innings from the front foot outstandingly.

Late Arshad Sharif was famous for his work as a political commentator and an investigative journalist on white-collar crime and corruption. He was associated with different news media outlets in Pakistan.

Given the impossible odds against it, to suggest that the Pakistan Army had the time and means to perpetrate genocide that killed three million innocent Bengalis in a few months defies imagination.

Such a situation now exists in Pakistan where the politicians are locked in a fight to the death, a fight where the judiciary and the army have also been, wittingly or unwittingly, dragged into the fray.

The cost of collecting and refunding sales tax outweighs the revenue collected by a significant margin. The administrative cost of collecting and refunding sales tax is estimated at Rs 10 billion.