2013

There is a Chinese saying: If one is facing hundred problems then he should solve the least one first so the number of problems is reduced to ninety-nine. One must continue defeating lesser evils and soon there will be dozens of challenges left to tackle. The shorter the list the better it is. No matter how big the few challenges …

Pakistan’s electronic media has made huge strides in the last one decade. Today this industry has a massive structure and thousands of journalists, executives and technical professionals are directly or indirectly part of it. Whereas Pakistani media may appear less glossy, less liberal or colourful as compared to its Indian counterpart, it is certainly more developed, deeper and robust than …

Born on October 1, 1944, in Martinpur, District Sheikhpura, Dr Alexander John Malik, is the longest-serving Bishop in the history of the Anglican Church of the Subcontinent. After graduating from PU, Lahore, Bishop Malik got his diploma from Bishop’s College Calcutta and degree of Bachelor of Divinity from Serampur University, India. He got his Master’s degree from McGill University, Canada, …

Saudi Arabia has turned into a country of surprises and shocks almost overnight. First, its Foreign Minister, Prince Saud Al-Faisal, refused to give his speech at the UN General Assembly, in September, due to its ‘double standards; and, second, his ministry has declined the membership of the UN Security Council due to the group’s failure to resolve the Palestinian issue, …

Water is one of the most precious natural resources of our planet. Only 2% of the world’s water resources are made up of freshwater. This scarce resource, however, plays a crucial role in all segments of nature, society and economy. In view of the projected growth in popular demand for water and an accelerating climate change, it is expected that …

The influential media in the United States continues to be preoccupied with the aftermath of the government shutdown, and especially with the Obamacare’ the object of the Republicans’ continuous ire. The other object of ‘Republicans versus Democrats’ dispute was resolved when the Republicans gave in and agreed to raise the ceiling for the national debt. The Second Liberty Bond Act …

The warm waters of the Gulf look quiet but such tranquillity hardly reflects the conflicts this region continues to generate. The euphoria of the so-called Arab Spring is long gone, what remains is a region that is rich with resources and burdened with easily manipulated history that is in a state of reckless transition. No one can see what the …

The warm waters of the Gulf look quiet but such tranquillity hardly reflects the conflicts this region continues to generate. The euphoria of the so-called Arab Spring is long gone, what remains is a region that is rich with resources and burdened with easily manipulated history that is in a state of reckless transition. No one can see what the …

The map of the modern Middle East, a political and economic pivot in the international order, is in tatters. Syria’s ruinous war is the turning point. But the centrifugal forces of rival beliefs, tribes and ethnicities’ empowered by unintended consequences of the Arab Spring’ are also pulling apart a region defined by European colonial powers a century ago and defended …

In the US, spying is a big business. The NSA’s new centre for stocking computer records at Bluffdale, Utah will cost on its own $2 billion, but the agency has a ‘secret-defense’ budget which, for all its cloak of secrecy, is at least five times that. It’s a slush fund involving the huge defense contractors like Lockheed-Martin and Endgame as …