Daily Current Affairs

BY Tariq Mushtaq Turkey is our dear brother country and since long we have enjoyed very close ties with the Turkish people as well as with successive governments. As a student of international affairs, I foresee a number of changes in our present system of government. We should for sure be ready to observe the Turkish system of government in …

BY Tania Qureshi The crossroads of diverse civilisations for centuries, the central theater of the great empires, the caravan of traders, path of sundry adventurers and explorers who traversed the twisting mountain paths that came to be known as “silk route” – that’s our Gilgit-Baltistan. This ecstasy of Pakistan is a mélange of unparalleled heritage, music, food, crafts and cultural …

BY Ali Sukhanvar Propaganda and disinformation  It is also a fact that for the last many years Indian agents are trying their best to misguide the people of Balochistan that the government of Pakistan is exploiting their natural resources  The truth is the truth though most of the time it is bitter but there must be a clear difference between …

Tayyab Tariq Narula Respectable businesses with high growth potential Pakistan’s E-commerce space has now become very crowded which each one selling the same products. However, one sector is still being ignored and that is the books  Pakistan’s economy is growing at a rate of 4.7pc per annum and next year it is expected to grow at a rate of more …

At eight o’clock in the evening on November 8th, India Standard Time, just hours before American voters shocked the world by electing Donald Trump as their next President, Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, went on television to address his country’s more than a billion citizens. At midnight, Modi proclaimed, all of India’s five-hundred-rupee and thousand-rupee notes, worth about …

The 7th NFC Award was signed by its members on the 30th of December, 2009. It became effective in 2010-11 after the Presidential Order No. 5 of 2010, during the tenure of the last PPP government. Initially, the Award was valid for a period of five years up to 2014-15. It has since been extended on an ad hoc basis …

The direction of U.S.-Russian relations during the early part of the Trump administration will depend on how (and if) the new President is willing to moderate the positions he laid out during the campaign. If past is prelude, it is likely President Trump’s Russia policies will become somewhat more moderate (meaning less favorable to Russia) than his stump rhetoric. This …

Origins of the Treaty: The Indus Waters Treaty was signed in 1960 after nine years of negotiations between India and Pakistan with the help of the World Bank, which is also a signatory. The negotiations were the initiative of former World Bank President Eugene Black. Seen as one of the most successful international treaties, it has survived frequent tensions, including …

Kashmir and the Indus Waters Treaty Water remained, however, a tendentious issue in relation to Kashmir. When Nehru visited Karachi in September 1960 to sign the Indus Waters Treaty with Ayub Khan, the two leaders also held lengthy discussions about other questions. According to Indian diplomatic reports, the atmosphere of the talks was “informal and friendly”. Discussions ranged over travel …

One of the United States’ greatest geopolitical imperatives is to prevent the rise of regional hegemons with the ability to challenge it. Russia’s historical dominance of Eurasia, the Soviet Union’s rise as a superpower after World War II and its resulting political, economic and military rivalry with the United States have long made Russia a target of Washington’s actions abroad. …