Aug 2021

Women Police Stations Police Reforms and Gender-Based Violence On 25th January 1994, first woman police station was inaugurated in Rawalpindi, Punjab. The step was considered a milestone and a way forward for access to justice, police reforms and for protection of women in Pakistan. The initiative is now more than …

THE MAKING OF PAKISTAN Three major factors shaped Indian Muslims political identity and their struggle to protect and promote it. These were the civilizational and cultural heritage and identity as a Muslim community in British India; the political experience of the Muslim elite in British India and their articulation of …

PAKISTAN’S FATF DILEMMA In its recent plenary, held virtually from 21st to 25th of June, FATF has decided to keep Pakistan in its grey list till it addressed the single remaining item on the original Action Plan agreed in June 2018 when the country was grey-listed. Though the FATF president, …

FBR’s Historic Acheivment Primarily, achievement of the tax revenue target assigned by the government remains top priority of the FBR. For the financial year 2020-21, the government assigned a tax target of about Rs.4.7 trillion. Achieving this mammoth tax revenue target was an uphill task due to sluggish economic activity …

HOUSING FINANCE The Road to 5 Million Houses If there is one sector that could be termed as the Prime Minister’s priority area in his idea of a prosperous and Naya Pakistan, it is the housing sector. It is especially because various housing sector surveys reveal that Pakistan is currently …

Challenges to the Tourism Industry in Pakistan and the Way Forward There are no two opinions about the fact that tourism carries a lot of advantages for Pakistan. Prime Minister Imran Khan has rightly said that tourism offered excellent potential for boosting the country’s revenue and employment opportunities. He further …

Unparalleled Belt and Road Cooperation The conference, where attending parties vowed to enhance efforts to jointly fight the pandemic and boost the green economy for a sustainable recovery, is regarded as a signal to show that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the 2013-born framework, has endured the test of Covid-19 …

The US’ Afghan Gamble The Afghanistan, being hapless, has been in state of turmoil since long. The Afghans have faced the wrath of the world superpowers: First the British, then the Soviet Union and now the United States. Especially for the last two decades, Afghan people have borne, and may …

G7 Aftermath Western Leaders in Search of New Animosities  To Recall Active Attendance of Former British Colonialism The G-7 used to be the G-8 – inclusive of Russia – but it shrank to being the “West and America First,” and anything else is a matter of opinion to be relevant …

CPC at 100 History of the Communist Party of China, popularly known as the CPC, is well recorded and different scholars have divided it into various phases according to each one’s own perception and understanding. I would like to divide it into following five phases: 1. 1921-1949: Establishment of the …