Words are pale shadow of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light a fire in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. We live and breathe words. Is is impossible for someone to be the most sensitive person? Someone who feels […]
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Forthcoming NPT Review Conference: Prospects and Challenges
Notwithstanding various instruments, one of the predominant challenges in the contemporary security environment to world peace and security is the spread of nuclear weapons. The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), since its ratification is broadly accepted as world’s most triumphant international arms control accord, which has been adhered by all states […]
Life as we know it
If you stay in the past, how would you be able to know about the future? Change is a part of life, it is a fact from which you cannot escape. It is the law of life; inevitable. “There is nothing permanent in life except change”, said Heraclitus. My whole […]
Inching towards 2016 Nuclear Security Summit
After the 9/11 terrorists attacks on the US, many spectators voiced their fear about the existence of high probability of a nuclear threat, that the terrorist could acquire and use nuclear weapons to achieve their political-cum-religious motives. The nuclear security summit (NSS) which was born out of President Obama’s Prague […]
Pakistani State and Morality
What if Pakistan were the world’s sole superpower? Would it be any different from the United States today? Would it treat the less powerful in the same way as Pakistanis currently expect to be treated by the US? Would Pakistan stand up for freedom and justice? However, improbable such a […]
Our Memories
Laughter, pain, happiness all are linked with one thing called “memories”. The gift from our past which take birth from our happy and unhappy moments. When we are not able to return to our past we search for some old memories which sometimes bring us happiness and sometimes it throws […]
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and South Asia
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) requests for prohibition of all forms of nuclear tests. Many international experts consider it as a second serious step to control nuclear proliferation after nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The idea to ban nuclear test was passed in ninth session of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) […]
Psychological trauma produced by Media
Media being the fourth pillar of the state is considered vital for maintaining social, economic, and political stability of the country. It has a powerful effect on the people. Sociology sees media through one of its major perspective, structural functionalism, and classifies media’s functions into two categories. Its manifest function […]
The Unseen Beauty and the Ugly Truth!
When my gaze maneuvers through the intangible, a warm touch hits my eyelids exposing the mere physical impression. When every cell of my body engages itself in the pursuit of seeing the unseen, my search for Him reveals His beauty, layer by layer, as I await to embrace His flawless […]
Adapting A Reading and Learning Culture
Are you fond of reading books? Not so? Are you not missing out? Reading books gives you the capability to speak and express yourself, learn and develop imperative life skills in terms of education, self-improvement, positive life choices and all round well-being. “He that loves reading has everything within his […]