October 2017

By: Dr Ishfaq Ahmad Economic globalization includes the cross-border movement of mainly three factors: capital, goods and people. With the end of the Cold War and demise of the Soviet Union, globalization was celebrated as the intellectual zenith of economic history of the world. Francis Fukuyama, in his book, “The End of History and the Last Man” had claimed that …

The Blue Whale Challenge has been headlining news in recent weeks because of the reports that a number of teens have committed suicide after following 50 tasks suggested by the game. This sinister internet game, named after a habit displayed by certain blue whales in which they beach themselves on purpose to commit suicide, emerged in 2013. A man was …

Say No to Tobacco About six million people around the world are killed due to the direct excessive use of tobacco and one million die as a result of indirect exposure to smoking. More shockingly, 80pc of these smokers live in low-income countries. The tobacco market gets larger with each passing day. The adults and teenagers especially seem to get …

Surah-20 Ta Ha/ Ayat 6: To Him belongs what is in the heavens and on earth, and all between them, and all beneath the soil. After about nineteen years of dilly-dallying, the sixth Housing & Population Census in Pakistan was finally conducted this year. The provisional results of the headcount have been released by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), and …