Brazil, the biggest country in Latin America, has been rocked by political scandals. President Dilma Rouseff has stepped aside by giving her position to Vice President Michel Temer, till the investigations against her are finalized. The stories of corruption are not strange in Brazil but the political fiasco made global […]
On 4th January 2011, the highly influential former governor Punjab Salman Taseer was killed by his own security guard, Mumtaz Qadri. The killer took a plea that he killed Taseer out of love of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Mr. Qadri alleged that Taseer had dishonoured the Prophet and that is why it was his […]
The Prime Minister of Pakistan recently made an optimistic statement that by 2047 Pakistan will be among the top ten economies in the world while referring to his government’s Vision 2025. Keeping in view the ground realities it seems quite a challenging task as the country is going through testing […]
The great deception is a propaganda which a devious section of the west is doing against the religion of Islam in all spheres of life. The gist of the propaganda is that Muslims are terrorists, savages, extremists, they do oppression against women and above all, they violate basic human rights. The […]
Thomas Fuller wrote in his compilation of proverbs “Gnomologia” that we never know the worth of water until the well is dry. It’s a sad on the part of humans to ignore the importance of our natural resources, using them to the point of threatening its existence. When it comes […]
The definition of minimum credible deterrence has evolved since 1998 when South Asia went nuclear. Governments of both Pakistan and India resolved to have minimum credible deterrence, but as the time passes, the stress on minimum can be seen vanishing. Today, India and Pakistan are trying to purse relation with […]
Despite severe opposition from some sections of the international community, organizations like the Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West (PEGIDA), political parties like AfD and the setback of the ruling Christian Democratic Union in the regional elections, the German government is sticking to its refugee policy, and trying […]
Londoners made the impossible possible in the Thursday’s mayoral elections when more than 1.3 million voters decided in favor of Sadiq Khan, a “Muslim”, “British-Pakistani” and “son of a bus driver”. I could have said former minister for communities or minister for transport under Prime Minister Gordon Brown or former […]
There are several reasons behind low literacy rate in Pakistan like poverty, lack of proper facilities, awareness among people, cultural tendencies and motivation. Lack of motivation seems an odd reason here but it is probably the most important reason these days. When parents see a large number of highly qualified […]
Media is free when it can provide information without any kind of censorship. However, complete freedom does require freedom of right to seek, receive and impart information and ideas. Constitution of Pakistan and the universally-accepted principles guarantee everyone the right to freedom of opinion and expression. The media in Pakistan […]
