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National, International News & MCQs NATIONAL June 16: PPP Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari lashed out against what he called “the character assassination of his party” and warned the military leadership that if they did not stop, he would expose the misdeeds of many generals. June 16: The heads of higher education commissions from eight member countries of the South Asian …

Ethnicity is a socially defined category of people who identify with each other based on common ancestral, social, cultural or national experience. Ethnicity or social differentiation is one of the enormous social complexities faced by most contemporary societies. Historically, ethnicity is the legacy of conquests that brought diverse people under the rule of a dominant group; of rulers who in …

Fourteen years after the establishment of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the bloc has finally delivered on its earlier pledges to enlarge its membership. The SCO member states that include China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have remained unchanged throughout those years, a rare thing in international organizations. However, at SCO’s Ufa Summit, two major South Asian nations, Pakistan and …

Drive Against Domestic Violence and Gender Discrimination  “No nation can rise to the heights of glory until your women are side by side with you.” Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah Contrary to the developed countries, where women are hand in glove with men in every walk of life irrespective of any so-called gender bias, the plight of the womenfolk in the …

“Good governance is perhaps the single most important factor in eradicating poverty and promoting development.” (Kofi Annan; Former Secretary General of the UN) The terms “governance” and “good governance” are being increasingly used in development literature nowadays with bad governance being termed as the root cause of all the ailments within societies around the world. Major donors and international financial …

JWT saved me several hours of labour as I prepared for Current Affairs, Pakistan Affairs and Essay just by going through this quality magazine. JWT: First of all, for the interest of JWT readers and CSS, PMS aspirants, please tell us about your educational background? And also tell about your career ambitions during your student life? Hassan Jahangir (HJ): I …

Women have been an important part and parcel of every Muslim society and the Subcontinent was no exception to it. Any fair investigation of the teachings of Islam or into the history of the Islamic civilisation will surely find a clear evidence of woman’s equality with man in what we call today ‘political rights’. This includes the right of election …

An overwhelming majority of Pakistanis are thankful that we have a sovereign, independent country where we have risen to senior positions in every profession. We are nearing the seventh decade of independence and these years have given us plenty. From a very narrow base of industry, educational institutions, health, banking, insurance, infrastructure and trained manpower, we have developed an impressive …

On 2nd July, 2015 — one day after the commencement of Pakistan’s new fiscal year 2015-16 — the IMF uploaded the seventh review under the Extended Fund Facility. To dispel any impression that the government did not share the budget documents with the Fund staff, the press release dated 26th June, the day the executive board of the Fund approved …

On Augurs 14, 1947, Pakistan emerged on the globe as an independent state. This most outstanding and extraordinary event was the culmination of the struggle of the Muslims of the Indian Subcontinent under the dynamic leadership of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The struggle for a separate, independent homeland for the Muslims got momentum because the Quaid had unflinching support from …