Tag: socio-economic
Building five million houses is as much a challenge as an...
GVS News Desk | Najma Minhas Global Village Space Managing Editor spoke with Zaigham Mahmood Rizvi, Chairman of the Prime Minister's Task Force on Housing. He is responsible for...
Scapegoats of politicians and the limits of Judiciary
Farah Adeed | There is a widely held misconception across the globe in general, and in Pakistan in particular, that in modern sovereign state system the...
Pakistan: “Rule of Law” without “Just Society”?
Dr. S. Zulfiqar Gilani | Although bandied about for as long as one remembers, only recently has the rule of law started being enforced for...
India’s Saffron Justice: The Rise of the Hindutva State under BJP...
Sarmad Ishfaq | Although it appears that Pakistan is perpetually portrayed as a hotbed for violence against minorities, it is ironically India that fits this...
Is ‘Full Spectrum Deterrence’ an effective nuclear policy for Pakistan?
Dr. Zafar Jaspal | India has been amassing colossal military hardware to materialise its war fighting concepts ‘Cold Start Doctrine’ and Pro-Active Military Operations Strategy’....
Pakistan’s system of governance is tailor-made for strife
Ikram Sehgal | A Muslim majority state was envisaged by its founder Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah to ensure conducive conditions for the Muslims of British-India...
Human life wilts under chronic Thar crisis
News Desk | While the country is focused on the humanitarian crisis in Yemen and Syria, there exists a forsaken land-Tharparkar, where abject poverty and...
The causes of the French Revolution: Comparison with Aristotle’s theory of Revolution
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery | The force of history is very compelling; past greatly impinges upon the present. One can find credence in this claim....
Will CPEC negatively affect the social culture of Pakistan?
Raheel Hassan | The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a buzz-word in the region today. China finds it as a conduit to expand its tentacles,...