The world failed to prepare itself against zoonotic dieases despite warnings
In a public health policy note of the World Bank Connecting sectors and systems for health results and published in 2012 – well before...
Covid-19 outbreak & the future of pandemics
New York governor Andrew Cuomo has become the articulate, compassionate political face of government competence in fighting a pandemic. That’s quite an achievement for a...
Muslims in west open their hearts to help poor, celebrate Ramazan in unique ways
Shariq Siddiqui | Many of the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims are experiencing the holy month of Ramadan differently this year – disrupted by social distancing...
A response to claim: COVID-19 will spread in Pakistan due to CPEC
US "deep state" operative Michael Rubin's recent fearmongering in "The National Interest" about how CPEC will supposedly facilitate the spread of COVID-19 throughout Pakistan...
Why does US want redundant India to play role in Afghanistan?
The two-hour stopover in Delhi on May 7 by the US special representative for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad, accompanied by the White House official in...
Iran accidently sacrifices Chabahar, Afghan border security takes precedence
The recent political crisis that exploded between Iran and Afghanistan after the former's security forces were accused of forcing over 50 of the latter's...
New world order: Why South Asia will lead ‘Great Game’
Even in these extremely uncertain coronavirus times, there is one thing that can be asserted with some measure of certainty: a new war, a...
COVID-19 offers opportunity to reclaim Quaid’s Pakistan
The financial budget of Pakistan consistently runs in a deficit (by some account close to a double-digit deficit), while periodic external account pressures invariably...
Pakistan: Absence of medical research, a setback against COVID-19
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare a reality. Medical research is supreme to medical practice. The pandemic has exposed two major fault lines...
What mothers of children with special needs experience
Mother’s day just went by and most of us wished our mothers and showed them how much we love them. Motherhood is not easy,...
India’s NSG membership threatens nuclear peace
Following the trajectory of nuclear development in the name of Peaceful Nuclear Explosions (PNE) in 1974, India in 1998, detonated nuclear weapons. It conducted three underground...
Can IMF please provide the debt relief any quicker?
The Managing Director (MD) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, recently made a statement in the meeting G20 finance ministers and central...