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Yuan Longping Father of Hybrid Rice Yuan Longping, widely known as “the Father of Hybrid Rice,” died of illness on May 22. Yuan, the pioneer of the research and development of hybrid rice in China, was the first scientist in the world to successfully utilize the heterosis of rice. Having …

THE CHANGING FACE OF QUETTA Once the ‘City of Orchards’ is in a quagmire of problems Quetta is the city to which belongs my identity. All my life from opening my eyes to seeing, learning and examining things is related to this city. It was once an ideal city where …

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The Myth of a Rules-Based World Two concepts have been constantly used in discussions of international relations of late. One is a liberal international order and the second is a rules-based system. In the former, the term “liberal” does not have much to do with what Americans call liberalism. Rather, …

THE ‘CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS’ THESIS A CRITICAL APPRAISAL Numerous challenging paradigms, most being initiated in the West, particularly in the United States, have cropped up. The connection is, in fact, noteworthy because it demonstrates the knowledge-power relationship in international relations. If the US could disguise its empire-building project and legitimize …

RASHAKAI SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE Rashakai Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is located at Rashakai in district Nowshera of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province along the M-1 (Peshawar-Islamabad) Motorway. It is the most attractive economic zone for local and multinational companies because of easy access and its proximity to China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). This …

PARLIAMENTARY AND PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEMS OF GOVERNMENT A COMPARISON What is meant by a democratic state, in the first place? The citizens govern the nation; protect their welfare and national interests in a democracy. It requires every individual to form an inclusive form of government for all. Political freedom is the …

Moral Philosophy A Cursory Review Ethics is one of the three main branches of philosophy – metaphysics and epistemology being the other two. Its distinctive subject matter constitutes the science of ethics. Ethics, also called moral philosophy, relates to the well-founded body of knowledge, paradigms, theories, standards, values, etc. involving …

Falling Behind and Falling Apart Owing to the ramifications of Covid-19 pandemic, poverty has been on the rise. In his marvellous book “The Bottom Billion,” Paul Collier has aptly pointed out that the development challenge has been a rich world of one billion people facing a poor world of five …

In Conversation with YASIR NAZIR (PAS) 2nd in Pakistan CSS 2020-21 Jahangir’s World Times (JWT): First of all, please tell us about your educational background. YASIR NAZIR (YN): My schooling has been from my hometown – Okara. District Public School & College, Okara, is the place where I received my …