Causes of viruses
- 29-Dec-2023
The globalised world is consistently experiencing breakouts of viruses of various kinds and shapes that affect the people to varying degree. Since many years the world has seen the eruption of Coronavirus, Polio, Ebola and Monkey pox and many other minor forms of such illnesses that cause widespread distress. There are several factors that why […]
Sovereignty
- 30-Sep-2023
For centuries sovereignty remained the bedrock of the world order and this principle was earnestly and broadly respected and followed. Sovereignty had become the closest there is to a universal principle promoting order in the world and held preference over all other concepts related to governance. The application of this principle was exclusively applicable to […]
Richard Olson: The Erring Envoy
- 25-Sep-2023
Richard Olson served as the American ambassador to Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates, both important assignments in the complex global scenario. His first ambassadorial assignment was in the UAE from 2008 to 2011 and was then appointed as the US ambassador to Pakistan from 2012 to 2015. From 2015 to 2016 he was US […]
Rising concerns about cyber warfare
- 13-Sep-2023
Internet-related problems are growing by the day, and this has become a singular worrying issue not only for state apparatus but also the corporate sector. This typical extension of internet facility has mushroomed into a virtual monster that has badly disrupted the accepted norms of communications. Few years before hardly very few imagined that this […]
Enlarging BRICS
- 07-Sep-2023
Multipolarity in the international arena is fast holding ground and may soon become order of the day. This situation is emerging three decades after the fall of the Soviet Union that ended the Cold War, and no one could definitively predict that this end of bipolarity would transform into multipolarity so soon. At the disintegration […]
Struggle between autocracy and non-autocracy
- 29-Aug-2023
The role of force is vital in distinguishing among political systems in terms of the exercise and control of power. Pakistani power matrix is a combination of autocratic and non-autocratic tendencies overlapping each other though the balance is understood to tilt in favour of autocratic intention and content. At the very outset it is pointed […]
Pakistan’s Entitled Class And the Masses
- 16-Aug-2023
Pakistani system has been afflicted with the entitlement syndrome that has held the country to ransom for most of its existence. The entitled elements have grown in influence and have assumed the role of elite that is not only manipulative but, more often than not, also determines the policy direction of the state. The elite […]
Can the Pakistani voter bring change?
- 22-Jul-2023
It is repeated ad nauseum that vote is a sacred trust and it should be used conscientiously. What is required is actually to educate the voter about the pros and cons of exercising his right to vote. The majority of Pakistani voters consist of simple people who are pulled in different directions by wily political […]
Need for solar energy
- 08-Jun-2023
Not only that Pakistan suffers from acute energy deficit but its costs have exorbitantly increased making it difficult for even reasonably affluent to foot the bills. Instead of witnessing any improvement in the current state of affairs, it has been more than two decades that the country started facing electricity blackouts is still experiencing them underlining […]
Unbearable inflation in Pakistan
- 06-Mar-2023
The price spiral goes on incessantly and there appears no chance that it will be controlled. Escalation in prices is going on unabated and has put tremendous burden on the buying power of the people. The last four years have witnessed unprecedented rise in inflation that have resulted in prices of essential commodities going up […]