January 2017

I am highly indebted to Jahangir’s World Times for offering guidance, inspiration and knowledge for achieving my dreams. Jahangir’s World Times (JWT): First of all, please tell us about your educational background? Raja M. Qasim Janjua (RQJ): I hail from a small village Jhugion-Dhak in Khushab district. After doing matriculation from Sialkot Cantt., I moved to Jauharabad from where I …

In My Life: A Provincial’s Story, published in 1896, Chekhov has a particularly devastating portrait of the muzhiks, the Russian peasants, that in its own way demonstrates all the intractability of the Russian social and political condition throughout history. “They were mostly nervous, irritated, insulted people; they were people of suppressed imagination, ignorant, with a poor, dull outlook, with ever …

E-governance or electronic governance implies a smooth and convenient interface between the government and the citizen with the help of Information and communications technology (ICT). While e-governance can’t entirely replace manual governance, its application, even though limited, is good enough to affect day-to-day living of the people. E-governance i.e. use of computers in government business and service delivery at door …

Most often, I dream of an ideal situation where national unity prevails in nook and cranny of the state, and people, irrespective of their ethnic and lingual differences, collectively take part in building the national prestige; where citizens participate in decision-making processes with equity and display similar zeal and fervour for the development and progress of the nation. Haplessly, in …

“JWT has everything an aspirant must read to better prepare for the exam” Jahangir’s World Times (JWT): First of all, please tell us about your educational background? Dr Anam Faryal Afzal (AFA): I got my early education from my native city Arifwala. I was a high-achiever and a topper throughout my school years. Since there was no college in Arifwala …

Now or Never to Rethink Pak-India Relations The history of relations between India and Pakistan right from their inception as sovereign independent states on the map of the world is one of the baffling episodes of conflict and animosity marked by mutual rivalry, scepticism, distrust and jealousy. There is, save a few cases, hardly any point in history on which …

Napoleon once said, “If you know a country’s geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.” He was dead right as the geostrategic, geopolitical and geoeconomic factors have, indubitably, always played a pivotal role in bringing states together so as to maximise their socioeconomic and security interests. On the same line, both Pakistan and Iran, owing to their geographical …

Third world countries lag far behind their counterparts in the developed world in terms of development primarily because of directionlessness and shortsightedness in the realm of policy formulation. In these countries, the development policies are, unfortunately, marred by a myopic thinking of getting re-elected just to stay in power; thus, true meanings of development are lost in the process. This …

From the dawn of independence to the dusk of controversial Islamization, and then to the terrifying dark nights of 2016, which entail nothing but confusion, Pakistan has paid almost no attention to girls’ education. Female education has been like an orphan child in our society due to the hypocritical nature of our existential ideas and the misleading interpretations of sacred …

During the recent years, there has been a ‘meteoric rise’ to the concept of ‘regionalism’ and the number of ‘regional organisations’ has grown unprecedentedly. The Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat, the Eurasian Economic Union, Saarc, Asean, BIMSTEC, and other such groupings were established by countries situated within a geographical region with an aim to cooperate with one another on matters of mutual …