Incidents of food poisoning are not uncommon in Pakistan. One of such major incidents happened in Layyah district in 2016 in which 23 people died and over 50 went through treatment after consuming pesticides tainted sweets. After investigation, it was revealed that there was a pesticide shop close by which […]
Pakistan is facing a mounting and seriously increasing economic crisis. The backdrop to this is big infrastructure projects such as the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). They are building bridges, railways, roads – which is exactly what Pakistan needs to get its own economy back on track. CPEC will revolutionize Pakistan’s […]
Pakistan’s newly elected government will be faced with numerous challenges with the economic crisis at the top of the list. They will inherit a trade deficit of $37.7 billion, a tumbling stock market and the second worst performing currency in the world. The economy has gone from bad to worse […]
According to Sylvia Neely’s “A Concise History of the French Revolution”, the average 18th-century worker spent half his daily wage on bread. However, when the grain crops failed two years in a row (1788 and 1789), the price of bread shot up to about 88 percent of his wages. Many blamed […]
Revival of the Pakistan’s film industry continued in 2017 as over 20 movies were released during the year. Punjab Nahi Jaungi remained the most successful movie on box office. It is also the all-time highest grossing movie of the Pakistani film industry with IMDB rating of 8.4. It received good […]
The air quality index (AQI) in Lahore reached 515 on December 25 surpassing the other most polluted cities in the world. This is not the first time Lahore has been in headlines regarding air pollution. The city remained under dense smog for the better part of October and November this […]
We have plundered our planet’s resources at such a high rate during the last few decades that it has endangered the very existence of all living beings on earth. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) had warned us about this fact a long time ago. The ever increasing human population along […]
The Federal minister’s inability to answer a simple question regarding NDCs relevance to Pakistan and insistence upon giving his five-minute long written speech at COP23 conference sums up our seriousness towards climate change. The COP23 conference at Bonn was in fact used as an excuse to visit Germany by officials […]
Hunger and food security are the world’s number one health risks. Increased food prices was one of the reasons that triggered Arab spring. Unless we figure out new strategies to improve global food security, we may be entering a new and dangerous phase of human history where food, water, and […]
Are we living in alternate realities? Or has our reality, our timeline been changed? At one point or another split in two or are we now just noticing the effects and the changes of this split? There has been a lot of talk recently about something called “The Mandela Effect”. […]
