2014

Since assuming power last year, the PML-N has shown chronic political ambiguity and ambivalence regarding the issue whether to hold talks with Taliban or take firm military action against the outfit. The PTI also has vacillated on the TTP issue. Recently, PTI chief Imran Khan divulged that his party’s and the KP government’s inability to initiate dialogue with the TTP …

A controversy about the privatisation of Pakistan’s State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) has been brewing from the very onset of this (PML-N) government taking office. Regrettably, the uncertainty about the fate of our public sector organizations compounds with each passing day and ‘uncertainty’ as we know in the corporate world is any organization’s worst enemy.

The Eighth Trilateral Summit of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Turkey concluded in Ankara on 13 February, 2014. The theme of the Afghanistan-Pakistan-Turkey Trilateral Summit this year was “A sustainable peace in the heart of Asia.”

“We recognize that Pakistan is a vital partner in supporting a secure Afghanistan, and we know how closely Pakistan’s own security is linked to Afghanistan’s success. That’s why addressing the threats posed to both Pakistan and Afghanistan by cross-border militancy is a key aspect of our conversations this week.” (John Kerry’s remarks at the US-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue: January 27, 2014)

Rai Haris Manzoor, a wonderkid from Rawalpindi, has created history with a world record in O-Level exam. At the age of only 9 years, he has passed the prestigious, world-class O-Level exam from the University of Cambridge, UK. The whole Pakistani nation is, undoubtedly, proud of him. Haris went on to make history with utmost care and attention by his …

In November 2013, the World Economic Forum released its ‘Outlook on the Global Agenda 2014’, in which it ranked widening income disparities as the second greatest worldwide risk in the coming 12 to 18 months.

This year marks the centenary of the First World War in Europe and has prompted comparisons with rising tensions between China and Japan, and the United States and China.

Of all the troubling aspects of the Obama presidency, none is more dangerous than the president’s persistent pattern of lawlessness, his willingness to disregard the written law and instead enforce his own policies via executive fiat.

Two years after the United States announced its rebalancing towards the Pacific, China seems to have delineated a two-pronged strategy in response that became more apparent recently.

Ukraine has recently experienced the most dramatic days in European history since the fall of the communist regimes. After unprecedented violence in the streets of Kiev, the situation is still uncertain. President Viktor Yanukovich has left behind him a power vacuum that will potentially reshape the balance of power in the region between Russia and the European Union.