In a poll in 2015, 42 percent Americans erroneously believed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. If you recall, President George Bush went to war against Iraq for the...
With the ongoing ‘accountability’, the Imran Khan government has also unleashed the tyranny of the IMF’s tougher conditions, breaking the back of the people and whatever...
Today, June 26, 2019 marks the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. Each year the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime selects the theme for the day...
Informal economies are considered a barrier to inclusive growth and exclude a majority of people from accessing opportunities of productive growth in the economic realm,...
The Balkans has often been prone to seizures of mysticism, glum prediction and predation. But one character felt at home as he addressed his audience in Kosovo, himself having...
As Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador begins transitioning his country away from its decade-long drug war, which has killed more than 100,000 Mexican citizens since...
Whenever someone is applying for a job or for admission to an institution, they are always asked for documents that have been attested by at least a Grade 17 officer. I don’t know what the purpose...
This refers to the letter, ‘Critical to catch’ by Muqaddam Khan. Pakistan’s win against South Africa last Sunday has reignited hope of winning the trophy this year. Qualification is still up...
The government has introduced a savings schemes with higher profits for the welfare of widows, shuhada families, senior citizens and pensioners with ten percent tax on the profit. Tax on profits of...
The government has increased the prices of everything like medicines, cosmetics, groceries, electricity and gas bills, etc but among all these things, medicines are more essential than others.When I...
Injustice and inequality have become synonymous us with our society. In the past there was no one to hear or raise the voice on behalf of the oppressed. And that situation even in Naya Pakistan...
Thus refers to the article, ‘Cut the fat’ by Dr Farrukh Saleem. I differ with the writer about the final recommendation. There is nothing inherently wrong with PIA, PSM and the Railways. If...
According to the government, Pakistan had been looted by previous governments and is therefore facing a financial crisis. A number of people have been arrested in connection with looting public...
With the arrival of the current government, inflation has reached its highest peak, especially in the form of taxes. Even if we buy a phone card, the government taxes Rs25 per-card. According to an...
According to Pakistan’s Economic Survey 2018-19, de-industrialization has continued since 2008. During the last decade, large-scale manufacturing lost 2.1 percentage points of its share in GDP. It...
Pakistan has found another friend in Qatar. The visit of Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani brought good tidings after Qatar agreed to provide Pakistan another $3 billion bailout package....
Hope for Sudan has quickly dissipated after the transitional military council rejected an Ethiopian plan for a civilian-majority transition government. The Sudanese opposition had accepted the plan...
