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‘Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq could form an economic bloc and become a role-model not only for the Muslim World but also for the global community.’ The Islamabad Declaration emphasised the resolve of the 8-D member-countries to promote peace, tolerance and democratic stability. The Declaration identified the role of private sector concerning the economic growth and increasing the intra-D8 trade …

Dr Mirza Ikhtiar Baig Advisor to PM on Textile, Chairman Baig Group of Companies, and CEO of Textile City of Pakistan The Baig Group has been working in Pakistan, Dubai and Morocco for the last 26 years.Dr Mirza Ikhtiar Baig, Advisor to the Government of Pakistan on Textile is a distinguished industrialist. He holds the most prestigious civil award Tamgha-i-Imtiaz, …

Unfortunately, inordinate delay in civil, criminal, rent, administrative, accountability, revenue, corporate and regulatory matters in Pakistan is raised on the edifice against substantive justice. The two interconnected conceptions of justice may be traced in legal literature: the substantial justice and the procedural justice. For instance, Clause 40 of Magna Carta or the Great Charter of the Liberties of England (1215) …

Mr Z. A. Bhutto broke the back of Pakistan’s civilian bureaucracy, while General Zia-ul-Haq presided over the radicalisation and criminalisation of Pakistani society. One of the truly disheartening aspects of researching Pakistan’s history is uncovering evidence that at critical moments the country’s central bureaucracy provided its rulers of the day with rational and wise advice, only to be ignored. In …

They left an indelible mark on Pakistan’s foreign policy from 1947 to 1957 The sincerity, ability and honesty of the Founder of the Nation, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, is beyond doubt. He was devoted to the cause of Pakistan for which he sacrificed everything his property worth millions of rupees, his family life and lastly his health  in pursuit of …

Will naming decades’ old Shadman Chowk after Bhagat Singh immortalize the legendary figure? The renaming of Lahore’s Shadman Chowk as Bhagat Singh Chowk sparked a spontaneous controversy over distortions of history that led to this ill-advised decision. There were many reasons against this decision. As if already there were not enough governance worries at home, we recently saw the Lahore …

An important dimension of the long-standing Palestine-Israeli conflict is the virtual dominance of the two major extra-regional players: Britain and the United States, and their existing nexus with Israel. Periodic clashes between Palestinian and Israeli forces made headlines time and again. What came as an unprecedented and remarkable development on the Palestine-Israeli conflict is the United Nations (UN) General Assembly’s …

Pakistan reiterated its support to an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace and reconciliation process. The two sides emphasised the importance of an intra-Afghan inclusive dialogue and the consequent political settlement for a durable peace in Afghanistan. Pakistan and Afghanistan are once again trying to follow a hand-in-hand policy in overcoming the common challenges. If saving their citizens from the menace of …

Despite being geographically contiguous, Pakistan and Russia have remained politically distant from each other during the last six decades. The framework of Cold War and the East-West confrontation defined relations between the two countries during that very period. This assessment of relations between Pakistan and Russia looks at the influence of South Asia and Central Asia’s bilateral relations in a …

Peeping through the Past-Nasir & Wasim’s club mate’s monologue I noticed that Nasir’s shot selection was amazing but he was not playing with a straight bat. I advised him to play with a straight bat first and then to go for huge shots. He had a learning attitude and was very respectful to the seniors, as it was the culture …