Monsoon Season on Steroids: Any Lessons Leaned for Future?
As aptly described by the U.N. chief Antonio Guterres, Pakistan has been hit by a "monsoon season on steroids." Images of men on a...
Media suppression: Another era of terror launched in Pakistan
Three months of tumultuous political upheaval and media clampdown in Pakistan had seen several journalists taking pre-arrest bails from Islamabad High Court, including Arshad...
Pakistan’s Failure to promote Low-Cost Housing? A Historic Overview
Political sloganeering of Roti, Kapra aur Makaan has won hearts and minds ever since Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, founder of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) rallied...
Walking through Spain’s Islamic history
Having just returned from my vacation in Spain – got to see Madrid, Valencia, and Alicante – it was great to come back and...
Pakistan’s electricity dynamics: Status quo & future direction
The electric power sector in Pakistan has been in focus for more than two decades now, yet, problems in the sector have increased to...
Karakoram Highway: A Dream fifty years ahead of time!
Geographers tell us that some forty million years ago, when the Indian Continental Plate steadily moved north and collided with its Asian counterpart, it...
How Engineers, Designers and Architects fought the pandemic
Pakistan did miraculously well in fighting the first two waves of the corona pandemic. By the end of March 2021, 598,197 people had recovered...
What President Joe Biden and PM Imran Khan May share
In March/April issue of Foreign Affairs, almost eight months before the US November elections, Joe Biden, then one of the several presidential candidates, wrote...
PDM good start but will go nowhere!
Country’s opposition parties, after months of protracted negotiations trying to come together, finally unified under the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) in end September. This...
Pakistan’s strategic options after Indo-US Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement?
Days before the US elections, a significant development has occurred between India and the US, which will affect the strategic stability of the region....