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By: Muhammad Qasim Rawalpindi :The countries all over the world have envisioned a world free of poverty, hunger, disease and want by implementing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and it is important that 12 out of 17 SDGs that have been replaced with the Millennium Development Goals in September 2015 are connected with population dynamics. The population of Pakistan that was …

By: Syed Rashid Husain As the Trump administration continues to raise the temperature, Tehran and Doha do not appear ready to give in – at least as yet. On the regional geopolitical chess board, interesting moves are on. Parties are taking steps to consolidate positions. Despite the US calls to isolate Tehran, sitting atop the fourth-largest oil reserves and the …

By: Munir Akram THE widely circulated picture of Indian Prime Minister Modi clinging to a visibly uncomfortable Donald Trump’s breast illustrates the nature of the emerging relationship between India and the US. Modi’s eagerness to serve as America’s ‘natural partner’ to contain a rising China is based on the expectation that this will provide India multiple advantages: latest military equipment …

By: Dr Noman Ahmed Practicing a frugal lifestyle and strict institutional dealing with malpractices is the only way out of corruption mess In an interesting move, the Sindh Assembly legislated to repeal the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Ordinance 1999. As per the lawmakers’ assertion, the provincial legislature was well within its rights to adopt a course of action towards dealing …

By: Bilal Naqeeb The major issue with the management of state-driven development initiatives in Pakistan is lack of a coherent approach towards its planning and management The progress and achievements Finance Miniter Ishaq Dar boasted of while presenting the Economic Survey 2016-17 and the budget reminded me of the following joke that I had heard in a management training a …

By: MOHAMMAD FAROOQ Hooked on to the cyber world The urge to update our Facebook statuses or upload pictures or share jokes there becomes our prerogative and main aim. Even the smallest of things that we are doing; what are we eating; what are we drinking, etc, have to be at any cost be reflected in our statuses Addiction is …

By: TAYYAB TARIQ NARULA Bottom of the barrel One of the primary reasons why Pakistani lags behind the world in innovation is our cultural attitudes. We usually discourage trying new things and want to adopt the path chosen by our predecessors Innovation is central to the rapid development of any country. Advanced economies of the world are only making progress …

By: Dr Shenila Khoja-Moolji After the horrific accident in Bahawalpur, one of the key questions everyone is asking is who is responsible for it. Is it the poor lot of people collecting fuel from the old tanker? Or the state that leaves its citizens in such a destitute condition that they have to risk their lives to fend for themselves? …

By: YANIS VAROUFAKIS ATHENS — The recent elections in France and Britain have confirmed the political establishment’s simultaneous vulnerability and vigor in the face of a nationalist insurgency. This contradiction is the motif of the moment — personified by the new French president, Emmanuel Macron, whose résumé made him a darling of the elites but who rode a wave of …

By: Parvez Hassan LET us first acknowledge the good among us. For the first time in the history of this country, we are moving towards a genuine culture of accountability that includes the mighty and the powerful. There can be nothing more exhilarating than to see a sitting prime minister being subjected to an investigation before a joint investigation committee …