It’s October, the month when thousands of aspirants across the country will be submitting their applications for CSS-2017 exam. And, it’s the time when they are in need of precise guidance. Since JWT has always served as a true guide to CSS aspirants, this time again we have come up with a few practical suggestions that will help you in …

Tribal women in Kurram Agency continue to be a commodity even today under the age-old tribal customary law known as Turizona. They are categorised as ‘married,’ ‘virgin,’ ‘widow’ and ‘abducted’ with each one of them carrying a different price tag. Turizona, an initiative undertaken in 1931 by Maj Ross Hurst, the then political agent of Kurram Agency, categorises women in …

Despite record levels of U.S. military assistance to Israel under the Obama administration, the state of U.S.-Israel relations has worsened, not strengthened, in recent years. Chen Kane    –    W. Seth Carus      –  Nima Gerami After months of tense and drawn-out negotiations, on September 14 the United States and Israel signed the largest U.S. military aid package given to any country, …

IN recent times, Pakistan’s polio eradication efforts have witnessed much improvement. From more than 300 reported polio virus cases in 2014 to 54 in 2015, and only 14 this year so far, the decrease is attributed to coordinated national immunisation programmes and the surveillance of high-risk populations. On Monday, a three-day nationwide polio vaccination campaign began. The goal: immunising 37m …

National Sep 24: The SBP directed all banks in the country to freeze accounts linked to 2,021 individuals listed on the Fourth Schedule of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) 1997. Some prominent names: Maulvi AbdulAziz (Lal Masjid), Mohsin Najfi (Shia leader), Maulvi Ahmed Ludhianvi (Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat), Aurangzeb Faroogi (ASWJ), Allama Maqsood Domki (Majlis Wahdat-i-Muslimeen), Pariyal Shah (ASWJ), Maulvi Kabir …

National Sep 21: Addressing the 71st UNGA session, PM Nawaz Sharif urged India to engage with Pakistan in a serious and sustained dialogue for resolving the Kashmir dispute. He also pledged to maintain a credible deterrence against India’s unprecedented arms build-up. Sep 21: Humpback whales, scientifically known as Megaptera novaeangliae, were spotted off the coast of Karachi, which is a …

National Sep 20: The law secretary told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that it lacks the jurisdiction to take up the matter of the Panama Papers. Sep 20: Renowned scholar and intellectual Professor Mir Abdullah Jan Jamaldini died. Sep 20: The Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Pakistan dropped by 128% in the first two months of the current fiscal year. …

National Sep 19: Chaudhry Tufail of PML-N won NA-162 Chichawatni, by-election. Sep 19: Habib Metro Bank won ‘Leading Partner Bank in Pakistan’ and ‘Leading SME Trade Bank’ awards by the Asian Development Bank. International Sep 19: China and Russia carried out joint naval exercises dubbed as Joint Sea-2016 in the resource-rich South China Sea. Sep 19: An Australian-led consortium with …

For feedback and suggestions, please write to us at:editorjwtmag@gmail.com; editor@jworldtimes.com THE UNEMPLOYMENT CURSE Unemployment exists in all parts of Pakistan and it really is a curse. Reportedly, the unemployment rate in the country has reached to 8.3 percent during the fiscal year 2015 and the number of unemployed people is growing in the country day by day which has put …

The month of August ended on a happy note for CSS aspirants and hopefully September will also be a month full of good news for them. The former was  propitious because in it the longstanding demand for enhancing the age limit for CSS exam has been, at last, fulfilled and the latter because the result for CSS-2016 exam is going …