The long journey of “Empowering Women, Empowering Humanity” was embarked on by 189 countries of the world in 1995 with the signing of the Beijing Declaration. And, now when the year 2015 is fast moving towards its culmination, a review of implementation of this historic agendum of women’s rights in form of United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is also …

Prospects of Peace in an Over-armed World Ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle called man a social animal by nature because it’s a unique mix in his personality that he cannot live in isolation, but when living with others, he fights with them. Since the beginning of the world, this unique blend has led man to create chaos and provoke violence ergo …

The admission and undertaking in the box above begins Pakistan’s National Youth Policy. No sane person could ever deny the importance of these words because it’s an irrefutable truth that, in a world where most people are in their dotage, young men and women of a nation are its prized asset. For Pakistan, the significance of youth is further enhanced …

The world had always been confronting numerous, diverse challenges in the realms of international peace and security, terrorism, globalization and governance, international economics, environment, information and society, poverty alleviation, human rights, healthcare, and so on. These issues need to be addressed by bridging the gap between knowledge and policy in critical areas. This phenomenon led to the establishment of regional …

At present, there are 156 universities and DAIs in the country which have been recognized by the Higher Education Commission. According to the data available at HEC’s online ‘PhD Country Directory’ and another relevant document ‘PhD output report’, it comes to the fore that 62 universities and DAIs have produced 8,822 PhD scholars from 1930 to December, 2013 For the …

‘If we are to move forward, we must believe in Alif Bay Pay. This awareness campaign to highlight the importance of education, being run by a private TV channel, makes every viewer strongly and recurrently realize that we, individually as well as collectively, still have to do a lot for the promotion of education in our country. We are paying …

It is an internationally recognised fact that the presence of female staff in the police and the reporting of the incidents of rape are closely interlinked. In Pakistan, female staff makes up only less than one per cent of the total police force in the country. The heart-rending incident that took place in Swat on October 9, 2012, gave a …

Corruption is regarded as an evil in the developed countries, but quite ironically, certain business firms in the developed countries themselves indulge in corruption in their international business transactions. Corruption is a universal curse, found almost everywhere in the world, in the rich as well as poor countries, with the only difference of intensity. Terms like shares, kickbacks and per …

With reference to the target of poverty alleviation set in the MDGs, Pakistan’s performance is disappointing when viewed in the perspective of National Poverty Line, but it is an outstanding performance when seen in the context of International Poverty Line. Poverty may be economic or in the form of the non-fulfilment of basic human rights. But in both cases, it …

Lack of proper educational facilities in our schools is one of the most important reasons for the educational backwardness in Pakistan. Pakistan has the world’s second highest number of non-school-going children. There has been 254 per cent increase in the country’s literacy rate since its independence, but still, 51 million adults living here do not know how to read and …