Chaudhry Pervez Elahi Pakistan Muslim League (PML) senior central leader, has asked the government to construct Kalabagh dam, after expressing his sympathies with the flood affected victims. With the construction of Dam, the rain water will be stored and floods will be avoided. He further said that the Dam ought […]
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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, […]
Media of the People, by the People and for the People
Electronic media in Pakistan can be divided into pre-nineties and post nineties era. From its infancy till its so-called maturity presently, media has witnessed two extremes during the period. Pre-nineties witnessed extreme strictness. Women were shown wearing dupattas all the time on TV. Whether it was some scene in the […]
Indo-US Strategic Ties
The US tilt in South Asia is not a sudden development, in fact, after the demise of the Soviet Union there has been a gradual convergence of interests between New Delhi and Washington. Before Cold War any alliance between US and India remained out of the question due to Nehru’s […]
Self-sufficing in Oilseed Crops Production: A Need of the Day
Oil being an everyday commodity is being used both as edible and as non-edible purposes. Similarly, vegetable oil is utilized by food and chemical industries for the production of a number of goods. Moreover, oilseed crop is more environment-friendly because they act as phytoremediators, which help remove heavy metals like […]
3D (Distress, Discord, Discriminatory) NPT Persist
The closing meeting of month-long ninth NPT Review Conference (RevCon) opened a novel debate about the future of the non-proliferation regime. The four weeks long negotiations ended in dismay as the states party to the treaty on Nuclear Non-Proliferation could not reach on a consensus document to improve progress on […]
Parenting, a Challenge: Why Pakistanis need to Revamp their Parenting Style!
“The price of greatness is responsibility”, a succinct dictum by Sir Winston Churchill fittingly and cogently explicates the august commissioning to one of the most challenging and rewarding enterprises of ‘becoming a parent’. A huge responsibility often taken for granted though, the stature of being a parent — assiduously […]