April 2016

“I face the world as it is, and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people” are the words President Obama expounded in a move to reflect upon his 2009 decision of committing additional troops to Afghanistan while delivering his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize. Notwithstanding the criticism from civil society and media, the …

1. Introduction 2. Good Governance and Its Indicators 3. Importance of Good Governance for a Country Importance for the Economic Sector Importance for the Political Sector Importance for the Social Sector 4. IS PAKISTAN CONFRONTING A CRISIS OF GOOD GEVERNANCE?? Yes! The following facts are a proof of the governance crisis of Pakistan: General public’s shattered trust in government Absence …

In recent months, Indian premier Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Mian Nawaz Sharif have opened first tentative steps to resolving border tensions between the both countries. If the two nations come into a political and, eventually, economic harmony, it could change the geopolitical map of wars and chaos in the world dramatically for the better. It would be the …

The Middle East is undergoing drastic geopolitical change, and the impact is not restricted to within its geographical boundaries. The Afghanistan, Pakistan and South Asia at large are the first to feel the heat of the events in the Middle East. This forces countries like Pakistan, which has been criticized for playing a ‘dubious’ role in the war on terror, …

Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream, yet submits it in its awakening. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years, and whose strongmen are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation. (Gibran Khalil Gibran) Not many moons ago, the land of the pure literally flowed with …

Whether it pours down from the sky or spouts from the earth, water makes its own way to flow. This is all because of a natural phenomenon the modern science names gravity. But the discovery of laws of gravity is not as old as is man’s knowledge of the fact that water flows down along the slope. Like a Supreme …

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is the most important mega project in Pakistan after the Indus Water Works initiated in the 1960s. There is no doubt that the Corridor will be hugely beneficial for the people of Pakistan as well as China. The $46 billion worth of investment that China has already committed for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is likely …

Public finances are needed for rendering public services; ranging from security, justice and other basic amenities like health, education, etc. One of the striking features of the countries that made extraordinary development in almost every field of life is that they had the capacity to raise much higher tax revenues as a percentage of GDP. Of course, some other factors …

JWT is doing a commendable job by providing fingertip information on all subjects on a single platform. I do applaud the efforts of Team JWT. Jahangir’s World Times (JWT): First of all, please tell us about your educational background. Dr Muhammad Raza Tanveer (DMRT): I got my schooling from various institutions in different parts of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. It …

The Baloch problem has so far mostly been seen from the lens of the classic realist angle of national security. The pathologies identified and the remedies suggested for resolution of the crisis also, therefore, bear a strong imprimatur of a security-centred approach. It is time the simmering discontent was doused with a human-security-centric approach appealing directly to the public weal …