By Asif Mehmood What went wrong with PTI that despite having the dedication to steer the nation out of the woods it has so far failed to deliver substantively on any front? The question was but a conundrum and S.K Nizai has eviscerated the mess and placed the actual position before us. His write up...
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By Anila Liaqat* While sitting in the capital of Pakistan having a warm mug of a famous German brand of coffee, wearing branded cloths, sitting on Victorian style sofa, hanging Turkish curtains in the room, Iranian rugs on the floor, eating from famous fast-food chain, travelling on Japanese automobile and listening the tracks of Dua Lipa while driving, all seems...
Dr. Maqsood Jafri The Kashmiris observe July 13 as Day of Accession to Pakistan all over the world. What is the Day of Accession? It seems pertinent that our younger generation should know about it. The Kashmiris declared their accession to Pakistan on July 19, 1947, a month before the independence on their unbreakable ties with Pakistan on religious, geographic,...
The Financial Action task force (FATF) is the global money laundering and terror financing watchdog. The inter-governmental body sets international standards that aim to prevent those illegal activities and the harm they cost to society. As a policy making body, the FATF works to generate the necessary political will to bring about national legislative and regulating...
The West’s defeat to the Taliban is rooted more in Pashtun social structures than previously thought
Ameer Shamyl Ahmad “Rome and Sparta for many centuries stood armed and free”, wrote Niccolo Machiavelli in ‘The Prince’ in 1513. The Pashtuns too, have stood very armed and very free along the mountainous Pak-Afghan border in an area that has become known as the ‘graveyard of empires’. A people reputed to be either ‘your...