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Clean, Healthy Environment A Universal Human Right Now In July this year, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) passed a historic resolution whereby it recognized the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a human right. Through the resolution, the UNGA has called upon states, international organizations, businesses, …

US Midterm Elections The United States will hold its congressional midterm elections on November 08. All 435 seats in the US House of Representatives will be up for grabs. Thirty-five Senate seats will be as well: the standard thirty-four seats in this cycle plus a special election to fill the …

Securing Supply Chains At the Forum, China, the 2022 G20 chair Indonesia, Chile, Cuba, Pakistan and Serbia jointly proposed the Initiative of International Cooperation on Resilient and Stable Industrial and Supply Chains, asking all countries to join them in a more equitable, inclusive and constructive partnership for industrial and supply …

Loss and Damage Addressing the unavoidable impacts of climate change ‘Loss and damage’ is a fairly precise technical term used in international climate negotiations. It fundamentally refers to climate impacts that exceed the adaptive capacity of countries, communities and ecosystems. This term is used to describe how people – particularly …

Digital Nomad Visa Recently, the southern European country Portugal has opened its doors to digital nomads – people who want to move to a new country to work remotely – with the launch of a new one-year digital nomad visa that allows remote workers to live and work in the …

Editorial Nov-2022 After four years of intense monitoring by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a huge relief has finally come for Pakistan: the global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog has removed Pakistan from its inglorious “grey list” of jurisdictions under increased monitoring. While announcing the decision at the …

Dr. Shamshad Ali Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Services Institute of Medical Sciences, Lahore Jahangir’s World Times (JWT): How do you see the state of affairs regarding the prevalence of eye diseases in flood-hit areas? Dr Shamshad Ali: As you know that Pakistan has faced this year the most devastating …

Tax Measures to Encourage Women Entrepreneurship Women enterprises are on the rise in Pakistan as well but a huge gender gap still exists in this domain and there is a pressing need to bridge this gap through some robust policies and initiatives. There is no blinking at the fact that …

World in Focus (SEP-OCT 2022) National & International With MCQs Sept. 16: The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef) representative in Pakistan estimated that as many as 16 million children have been impacted by ‘super floods’ and at least 3.4 million girls and boys remain in need of immediate, …

War and Civilizations Some men create great civilizations and some men destroy them in great ways. In simple words, civilization means when people come together to develop cities and form a common culture. History has witnessed the formation and demolition of many civilizations. and the word ‘need’ has always directed …