March 2021

Precis & Composition Q1 (A): Synonyms1. Defenestration: Ejection 2. Sot: Drunkard3. Visceral: Intuitive4. Deracinated: Uprooted5. Bricloge: Fusion (Note: The word was wrongly spelt; it should have been Bricolage) 6. Miscegenation: Crossbreed 7. Demiurge: Deity8. Alluvial: Muddy 9. Hagiographic: Flattering 10. Tousled: Disheveled Q1 (B): Antonyms1. Clerisy: Commoner2. Feral: Tamed3. Demagogue: Conformist4. Bibulous: Nonabsorbent5. Pabulum: Trash6. Quisling: Loyalist7. Chiaroscuro: Bright8. Caitiff: …

Science and Public Trust It all began when Covid-19 struck early this year. Science wasn’t ready for it and all known medicines were useless. To add to the despair, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in America, as well as the World Health Organization (WHO), poured in buckets of confusion with contrary advisories, hurting science, like dams kill wildlife.Multi-speak …

In Conversation with Muhammad Furqan 28th in Punjab, PMS 2019-20 Jahangir’s World Times (JWT): First of all, please tell us about your educational background?Muhammad Furqan (MF): I studied till matriculation at Central Public School in Khanpur and did my FSc from Alpine College of the same city. Then, I moved to Lahore for pursuing higher education, and graduated from LSE …

A Beginners’ Guide to  Marxism  A Revolutionary social, political and economic philosophy Brief Biography of Karl MarkKarl Heinrich Marx, a great 19th-century philosopher, is famous for his ideas about capitalism and communism. Born 5 May 1818 in Trier, Prussia, in today’s Germany, Marx is also accredited as an economist, a socialist and a mystic owing to varied interpretations of his landmark writings …

India’s Foreign Policy But colonization in the 20th century changed the concept of sovereignty and integrity of the state. Colonial powers like Great Britain, Spain, France and Portugal established their supremacy in the continents of America, Africa and Asia. Great Britain ruled the Indian Subcontinent for around 200 years. However, the British Empire in India ended in 1947 when India …

Human Rights and Culture Human Rights have been defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) of 1948. The basic aim of the UDHR was the achievement of common rights. Human rights are inter-related, inter-dependent and indivisible, and equally important. They have different aspects that include civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights. Cultural rights, in a domestic context, …

In the simplest of terms, free trade is the total absence of government policies restricting the import and export of goods and services. While economists have long argued that trade among nations is the key to maintaining a healthy global economy, few efforts to actually implement pure free-trade policies have ever succeeded. DefinitionFree trade is a largely theoretical policy under …

Great-power Rivalry Would Lead to a Bipolar World Global politics is a jungle where great powers are predators. Just like the predators of the jungle, they fight each other to preserve their area of control and envy the riches of others. However, in the real world, claws, jaws and horns are not used, and the contest is mostly done in …

In Conversation with Madiha Narejo (PAS) 94th in Pakistan 4th in Sindh(U)  CSS 2019-20 Jahangir’s World Times (JWT): First of all, please tell us about your educational background?Madiha Narejo (MN): I am a business graduate; I have done both my BBA and MBA from SZABIST, Karachi, with majors in Marketing. I made it to the Dean’s Honor List, in my …

1. New Perspectives on Pakistan’s Political Economy: State, Class and Social Change, edited by Matthew McCartney and S. Akbar ZaidiFor the most part, the media discourse on Pakistan’s economy has focused on the International Monetary Fund (IMF), revenue shortages, food inflation, the country’s increasing debt, how few Pakistanis pay direct taxes, rising utility rates, the growing burden on the poor …