The world has always witnessed shifts in beauty standards with changing times but recently there's been an obsession amongst women to look a certain way. Today the meaning of beauty has been defined as having certain characteristics and this causes stress and lower self-esteem.
Human rights in Afghanistan is a topic of controversy and conflict. While the Taliban were well known for numerous human rights abuses, several human rights violations continue to take place across the country. Afghanistan has an interesting strong human rights framework.
According to Dr. Farid A Malik, an Ex chairman of the Pakistan Science Foundation, Pakistan faced severe institutional disorder after Zia's Referendum of December 1984. In the formative years of Pakistan, institution building was taken very seriously.
The easiest thing to say about the peace talks between members of the Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and a team of clerics negotiating with them on behalf of the government is that it seems like Pakistan is trying to enter into another pact with the devil.
Iftikhar Ahmad thinks that the recent Pandora fiasco has been blown out of proportion by the media. To him, non-payment of tax is a crime against humanity. But this plethora of documents and name-churning machines make no distinction between legitimate money and proceeds of crime.
Jan Achakzai, a geopolitical analyst from Balochistan, discusses the massive anti-Taliban and anti-Pakistan sentiments festering in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. In an eye-opening piece, Jan Achakzai narrates that such sentiments can be weaponized against the Taliban and Pakistan easily.
Our society is going through a time where people are not sure as to adapt to a new progressive way of thinking or to keep latching on to the orthodoxy which has served their interest for a larger part of their life. These contradictions made the society heartless and materialistic
Since taking power in August, the Taliban have repeatedly expressed the expectation that the international community will recognize their authority as the new government of Afghanistan and have taken several procedural steps to pursue recognition.
According to Wahid Bhat, climate change is the defining crisis of our time and it is happening even more quickly than we feared. But we are far from powerless in the face of this global threat. No corner of the globe is immune from the devastating consequences of climate change.
The proliferation of nuclear technology in the politically volatile Middle East greatly increases the likelihood of a catastrophic nuclear war. It is widely accepted, while not openly declared, that Israel has nuclear weapons and that Iran has enriched enough nuclear material to build them.
Gen. Tariq Khan, Ex-Head of Pakistan's Central Command who fought against the TTP questions the wisdom of Imran Khan government in opening talks with TTP
The hackers attacked the FBR data center and caused to down all official websites operated by the tax machinery for more than 72 hours. The attack was identified immediately because of the scale of disruption that it caused. The system came back to normal life after days of frenetic attempts.
