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At the onset of this century, we found ourselves to be dying to one world, and not yet being able to be born into another. We are today adrift in a more uncertain and surely more chaotic world burdened with the same old problems, perhaps in their acutest form. Wars of aggression and attrition, invasions in the name of self-defence, …

Allama Iqbal, great poet-philosopher and active political leader, was born at Sialkot, Punjab, in 1877. He descended from a family of Kashmiri Brahmins, Allama Iqbal, great poet-philosopher and active political leader, was born at Sialkot, Punjab, in 1877. He descended from a family of Kashmiri Brahmins, who had embraced Islam about 300 years earlier. Iqbal received his early education in …

Federal Minister for Environment Samina Khalid Ghurki has said that the world was facing extreme challenges of climate change and environmental degradation. Pakistan is also suffering from its hazardous impacts that are major threats to every sector of life. She said that government was committed to take sustainable initiatives for healthy environment in the country. In an exclusive interview with …

Hijab is to dress modestly in such a way as the outline of the female body is not visible. Islam is a reformatory and revolutionary religion which provides guidance to its followers for eternal success in all walks of Islam. The Islamic Shariah consists of articles of faith i.e. beliefs, modes of worship ‘rituals, moral standards or ethical values, Civil …

Aggression refers to any behaviour that is hostile, destructive and violent, it’s considered to be a psychological plus physiological state in which you try to hurt the other party. Aggression is considered to be one of the human motives. It comes under the category of psychological or social motives. Although psychological/social motives are not important for one’s existence or survival; …

Governments throughout the Middle East are trying to buy off trouble.They may be storing up more If you don’t own your citizens’ loyalty, perhaps you can rent it for a while. That seems to be the mantra of Arab regimes at the moment. Throughout the Middle East and North Africa, they are showering their citizens with money and gifts, like …

Few would deny that China has been the economic superstar of recent years. Thanks to its relentless double-digit annual growth, it has become the world’s second-largest economy and in many ways the most dynamic. Less obvious is quite what the secret of this success has been. It is often vaguely attributed to ‘capitalism with Chinese characteristics’ typically taken to mean …

People are wishing for a revolution in Pakistan like the Middle East without any intelligible points of reference between the two Jubilation at the momentous events taking place in the Middle East has rapidly and perhaps predictably, been accompanied by comparisons between the situation in Egypt, Tunisia and now Libya with that of Pakistan. Talk shows, newspaper columns and even …

This situation in particular has raised alarm because of the planned Chutak and Nimoo-Bazgo Dams on River Indus by India. The headlines in the local dailies of February 28, 2011, state that the government wakes up to India’s hydel projects built or being build on rivers entering Pakistan from Indian-held Kashmir, strangling Pakistan’s lifeline. Unfortunately this wake-up call is restricted …

The concept of publishing this report is to develop ideas for promoting greater stability worldwide, to encourage debate and help guide strategies for sustainable security. Failed state index The Foreign Policy magazine and Fund For Peace (US) publish the failed state index every year. From 2005 onwards, six reports have been published. The report uses 12 indicators in social, economic …