While the government is busy in developing a new cyber law, many from Media, internet service providers, NGOs and members of civil society have already termed it contentious. According to them, many clauses of the proposed bill are tantamount to curtailing the freedom of expression and are against article 19 […]
Opinion
Slum Demolition: Security “fortified” or “compromised?”
Security concerns remain at the forefront of Pakistan’s policy agenda. Whether it is the internal or external security issues, the state authority is continuously grappling with the task at various levels. In a bid to remove all types of security risks in the capital, the Islamabad High Court recently sanctioned […]
SCO as a dominant regional player and its impacts on Pakistan-India bilateral Relations
The Council of the Heads of States of SCO members has approved the full membership for Pakistan and India in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization after fulfilling certain statutory and legal requirements and hopefully by the year 2016 both Pakistan and India would become permanent members of the Organization. Previously, along […]
Brandon Stanton Concludes his Pakistan Series on Humans of Newyork
Brandon Stanton, the famous blogger of Humans of Newyork (HONY), concluded his Pakistan series today. The series on Pakistan started on 30th July last month and continued till 15th of August. Brandon during his time in Pakistan captured some brilliant moments through his camera lens which left almost everyone in […]
What If the Deterrence Fails: Thinking the Unthinkable on the 70th Anniversary of A-Bombings (Hiroshima, Nagasaki)
The world first observed the devastation of mass destruction during the last days of World War II in August 1945, Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Two Japanese cities) were hit by two different nuclear bombs. The nuclear bomb was never tested before and for the first time it was tested during World […]
Pursuing the Peace Process of Afghanistan
At the very beginning of his government, the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had made the negotiation with the Taliban and the restoration of peace in his country a top priority agenda. In the regional political milieu, almost all of the surrounding states are particularly concerned about the future of the […]
Leaking the Judicial Commission Report
According to unconfirmed reports, the judicial commission, formed to probe the rigging charges of PTI in the 2013 general elections, has rejected all allegations leveled by the party. “The commission has rejected PTI’s allegations of rigging in the 2013 general elections”, said Shahid Hamid, an advocate who represented PMLN before […]
Senior Citizens are Equally Valuable and Useful to the Society!
Why is it that unless or until we are told about something only then we realize about it. Otherwise, we are all so engrossed in our lives that we tend to ignore important and obvious issues. Some things are obvious and self-explanatory like a simple fact that those who have […]
Nuclear Weapons: The Anchor Sheet of Peace and Stability
The horrific detonation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused the evolution of a new era of politics in the world. It was the first time in the history of warfare that the scale of human causalities with a single strike of any kind of weapon became unthinkable. As we know that […]
Confines of Confrontational Statements and Conventional Deterrence
The two subcontinent nuclear powers, Pakistan and India, very recently involved in a war of words which has reopened the debate on South Asian’s nuclear and strategic stability. Predominantly, three official statements from India in scorching ‘June’ have further inflamed the traditional tensions between the two rival nuclear neighbors. Pragmatically, […]