NATIONAL Aug 16: PML-N nominated Senator Yaqoob Khan Nasar as the acting president of the party. The PML-N came into being in 1990, and since then, Shahbaz Sharif is the only person, other than Nawaz Sharif, to have held the office of party chief. Aug 16: The United States designated Hizbul Mujahideen as a specially designated terrorist organisation led by …
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Beyond Austerity: Towards a Global New Deal
Fifty years ago, at New York’s Riverside Church, Martin Luther King made a passionate plea for a more equal, more just, more peaceful and more dignified world. Calling for “a radical revolution of values”, King concluded, “We must rapidly begin … the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights …
Read More »WORLD PEACE CANNOT BE ACHIEVED WITH AN OUTDATED UNITED NATIONS
By: Asadullah Khokhar Since time immemorial, the humankind has been coveting for peace. All religions, philosophies and civilizations have praised the virtues of peace and have strove for its attainment. The abhorrent ugliness of war and violence compels the suffering humanity, from time to time, to reflect and make concerted efforts to restoring peace. So, harbouring this desire of a …
Read More »CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
Conflict is a constant in modern life and this is also the case in the delivery of services by the public administration. It occurs due to diversity of views, difference of opinion and/or conflicting interests. It may also arise among employees and between public administration and service-users and service-providers. Disagreements, difference of opinion or attitude, needs and views on the …
Read More »Feminism and Wave Analogy
The word feminism originated from the French word “feminisime” in the nineteenth century. Interestingly, it was used either as a medical term to describe the feminisation of male body or to describe women with masculine traits. According to Jaggar(1983), a sociologist, when the word ‘feminism’ was used in the early part of the twentieth century, it was used only to …
Read More »POOR INDUSTRIALIZATION MEANS POOR ECONOMY AND POOR ECONOMY MEANS POOR STATE
1) Introduction 2) What is meant by industrialization? 3) Why industrial development is necessary? It is necessary to: i. Increase employment rates ii. Promote trade activities iii. Support agriculture iv. Strengthen state’s economy v. Eradicate poverty vi. Make defences strong 4) Is it true that poor industrialization means poor economy and poor economy means poor state? Yes, it is true. …
Read More »PRIVATIZING HIGHER EDUCATION: GENERATING KNOWLEDGE OR MAKING MONEY FOR THE OPULENT
1) Introduction 2) Education and its types 3) Importance of education in society a. Importance of education in general i. Provides knowledge and skills ii. Builds up personality and character iii. Inculcates sanity and civilization in society iv. Embellishes the look and the image of the state v. Invigorates political, social and economic sectors of the state b. Importance of …
Read More »A New Strategic Geography, A Look into the Future of the world
By: Robert D. Kaplan As Europe disappears, Eurasia coheres. I do not mean to say that Eurasia is becoming unified, or even stable in the manner that Europe was during the Cold War and the Post Cold War – only that the interactions of globalization, technology and geopolitics, with each reinforcing the other, are leading the Eurasian supercontinent to become, …
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1. Pointing to a photograph, Ali said, “She is the daughter of my grandfather’s only son.” Ali is the ______ of the girl in the photograph. (a) Father (b) Cousin (c) Brother (d) Uncle 2. Looking at a portrait of a man, Mazhar said, “His mother is the wife of my father’s son. …
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