Mr Zafar Razzaq Durrani is a renowned and illustrious businessman from Balochistan. He enjoys great respect and repute among the business circles. He has been recently elected as the Vice President Quetta Chamber of Commerce & Industries (QCCI). Jahangir’s World Times (JWT) had a special session with him on the problems of the traders, industrialists and business community of Balochistan. …

Foreign policy wonks in droves are turning to Twitter to make their ideas travel faster and further. In just a few years the technique has become so commonplace that established magazines such as Foreign Policy now annually publish guides to the top 100 twitterati’ and these lists are of course hotly contested in social media the moment they appear. But …

Expected English Essays 1.”Crisis of Governance in Pakistan” OR ”Good Governance in Pakistan: A far cry. 2.”Education is a catalyst of change” OR ”Education determines the stature of the country in the comity of nations. 3.”Information explosion” OR ”Media as the watchdog of the rights of the people” OR ”Media as the fourth estate of the realm. 4.”The culture of …

At present there are 12 grid stations of 500 KV having capacity of 14850 MVA and 26 sub-station of 220 KV with 15364 MVA capacity, and these grids are sufficiently catering to the power needs of the country says MD PEPCO/NTDC Rasul Khan Mahsud The  National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) has established a new 220KV Grid Station at WAPDA …

Introduction and Selection by Baidar Bakht Translation from Urdu by Baidar Bakht and Marie-Anne Erki Publisher: Packages Ltd, Lahore, 2010. Pages 604. Price: Rs 750/US $ 25/GB P 20. Reviewed by Toheed Ahmad Poets, it is said, produce national literature, while translators produce world literature. This beautiful book is a brilliant illustration of this adage. Urdu literature has yet to …

Just like the taxpayers of medieval Italian cities, we’re having our money siphoned off to pay for a greedy military machine In the 14th century there were two pandemics. One was the Black Death, the other was the commercialisation of warfare. Mercenaries had always existed, but under Edward III they became the mainstay of the English army for the first …

Energy consumption in offices and workplaces needs to be addressed on a large scale as lot of energy is consumed and wasted here. The use of excess energy causes pollution, primarily through increased carbon emissions leading to climate change, whilst contributing to the problems associated with dwindling fossil fuel reserves. Also, wasting energy reduces profitability. The government support programmes in …

Transtromer’s surrealistic works are characterized by powerful imagery that explores the mysteries of the human mind. The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded last week to a psychologist who used his spare time to craft sparsely written poems about the mysteries of everyday life – commuting to work, watching the sun rise or waiting for nightfall. Tomas Transtromer, Sweden’s most …

Today we mourn Steve Jobs but we can be sure that his brave questioning spirit will inspire others in the days to me. It was 6th October, 2011, when Steve Jobs died. His pre-mature death moved everyone across the globe. He was an inventor and visionary. There are very few persons who have been able to achieve so much in …

Discussion forum held at Business School of Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), Islamabad. Under the auspices of Jahangir’s World Times a Discussion Forum was organized at the Business School of PIDE, Islamabad. Where students of ‘Business Administration’ shared their views on the Business potential of SAARC region. Their arguments were logical, convincing and categorically sound. Actually, their views reflect …