2020

Virtual Diplomacy The coronavirus pandemic has affected the world massively and its impact is already being felt at the local, regional and international levels in multifarious ways. International diplomacy is one area that is at the centre of the whole phenomenon, and we have seen this phenomenon at this year’s annual session of the United Nations General Assembly. Traditionally, the …

THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE BETTER WORLD The year 2020 marks a special anniversary for the United Nations: 75 years from the signing of the UN Charter in San Francisco. In 1945, soon after the end of the Second World War, nations worldwide decided to change the course of history and took the commitment to work together for peace. The United …

The Unholy Alliance  Like many other flabbergasting happenings in international arena such as US-Iran clashes after the killing of Qassem Soleimani, hyper politics between China and the United States over Covid-19, etc., the year 2020 brought a new twist in international relations. The event that has re-ordered the Middle East diplomacy is an astonishingly unholy US-brokered deal which was signed …

  In Conversation With Sadia Hussain Dogar 22nd in Punjab,PMS 2018-19 Jahangir’s World Times (JWT): First of all, please tell us about your educational background? Sadia Hussain Dogar (SHD): I attended Queen Marry School, Lahore, and Divisional Public School, Kasur. Later, I went to Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore, from where I did my MPhil in Media Studies.   JWT: …

MEN AND FOOD PROBLEMS

FEMINISM FOR BEGINNERS There is no denying the fact that almost half of humanity has always comprised women. But only a few women appear on lists of ‘great people’ who have shaped the course of human history that has been, to many feminists ‘His-story’. Women, if they appear at all, do so as a support for men, or as suffering …

In Conversation With ALI Fahad (FSP) 60th in Pakistan CSS 2019-20     Jahangir’s World Times (JWT): First of all, please tell us about your educational background? Ali Fahad (AF): I did my graduation from University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, in Mechanical Engineering. After that, I also did LLB from University of the Punjab and Master’s in Engineering Management …

CLIMATE CHANGE EMERGENCY AND GLOBAL RESPONSE Climate change, in immediate future, will be an inevitable national security threat; less to the developed economies, much to the developing ones. Although debate on the subject has been overwhelming, yet the implementation of emission-reduction policies in the developed countries that contribute to the worst of climate change more than what they have been …