2014

Great and venerated are the IDPs who have sacrificed their today for the tomorrow of the whole nation. They left their homes and businesses for a greater cause of securing Pakistan. They were braving all the atrocities and brutalities of terrorists to lead their lives. They coexisted with the militants but never embraced their bigotry and bestiality. But, when called, …

Over the last two decades, numerous analysts have hailed India as the next global power. This resulted partly from the marked acceleration in India’s economic growth rate following reform process initiated in 1991. India’s GDP grew at 6% per year for most of the 1990s, 5.5% from 1998 to 2002, and soared to nearly 9% from 2003 to 2007, before …

The success of Daesh — erstwhile ISIS or ISIL — against the Iraqi military and the success of the Taliban in Afghanistan apparently look two different cases; however, they have something in common which glaringly shows the ultimate failure of the twenty-first century grand strategy of the US. As a part of its strategy, the US aimed at first destroying …

Ever since the demise of the Communist threat in 1991, the leading scholars have been proliferating their visions as to how the world politics would reshape. Amongst all, Samuel P. Huntington’s ‘Clash of Civilizations’ theory has been ruling the academic debate for past two decades. According to Huntington’s hallucination, the conflicts of post Cold War era would occur along the …

A little more than a year after it was broached, a new multilateral bank in Asia — the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) — was born in Beijing on Oct 24, 2014, signalling in the process the failure of hectic lobbying by the United States against the move. The AIIB, along with the other new China-based institution, the BRICS Bank, …

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s latest visit to Beijing aroused great interest as well as curiosity among the people, especially after governmental claims on the outcome of the visit. According to Federal Minister Ahsan Iqbal, at least 19 agreements were signed during this visit, involving a huge portfolio of Chinese investment worth $45.6 billion. There were all sorts of speculations on …

Series Review in Numbers Several records were broken and new benchmarks set over the two-Test series between Pakistan and Australia played in UAE. Pakistan recorded its first Test series win against Austalia in 20 years. Younis Khan led the way with successive centuries in the first Test, and a double century in the first innings of the second Test. Moreover, …

POWER OF THE DRAGON, EXPLORING NEW VISTAS, THE GRITTY DUO, BREAKING THE SILENCE, A STATE OF THINGS TO COME , HARDLY AN OASIS, THE FORMIDABLE CHALLENGE , THE POPPY BLOOM REDUX, KNOWING THE UNKNOWN , TALENT MEETS POWER 1. POWER OF THE DRAGON On Oct 17, the United Kingdom became the first foreign country to issue offshore renminbi bonds, with …

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“What then is government? An intermediate body set up between the subjects and the Sovereign, to secure their mutual correspondence, charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of liberty, both civil and political.” | Jean-Jacques Rousseau (The Social Contract) Being a social contract by nature, a constitution is the submission of the state citizens in return to …