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By Dr Pervez Tahir “A nation without borders is not a nation,” asserted the newly installed President of the United States. Does that bid farewell to globalisation, viewed in simple terms as a world without borders, not in physical terms but in the form of freer movement of goods, services, investment and people? I always thought that with Trump, you …

Muhammad Amir Rana PRESIDENT Donald Trump of the US has shaken the geopolitical landscape of the world in such a way that many nations are struggling to adjust. At present, world politics are quite fluid, which has created more space for Chinese President Xi Jinping to materialise his dream of regional connectivity. America’s withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has …

By Farrukh Saleem Capital suggestion Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif deserves the credit for this one. The Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) constitute an area of 27,224 square kilometres and a population of around four million – roughly three percent of Pakistan’s area and two percent of our population. Former US president Bush described Fata as “one the most dangerous areas …

Aasim Zafar Khan In its report published in August 2016, the Fata Reforms Committee (FRC) recommended that the tribal regions be integrated into the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) over a transition period of five years. This time is to be used to prepare the tribal regions for integration and to accomplish what the report calls, important objectives and pre-requisites. …

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 …