China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), under President Xi’s flagship, launched the One Belt One Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, achieved marvelous progress, and completed Phase One with the work already started for Phase 2, also known as CPEC 2.0. China-Pakistan relations have always been multidimensional with a focus on every sector. CPEC Phase 1 focuses on […] Read more
A new era of collaboration and transformation has been initiated in the Middle East with the signing of the Abraham Accord, named to honour the shared heritage of Judaism and Islam in Prophet Abraham, representing a historic shift in regional diplomacy. Signed initially in September 2020 by the UAE, Bahrain, and Israel and subsequently joined […] Read more
THE case against former US president Donald Trump is set to conclude soon. Once closing arguments by both sides have been presented the case will be handed to the 12-member Manhattan jury who will decide if Trump is guilty of the 34 charges of falsification of business records. These deceptions revolve around allegations of Trump […] Read more
30 years of ICPD 1994: Pockets of inequality persist The year 2024 commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo, Egypt. It was recognized as an event of significant importance where 179 governments pledged to prioritize sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) as fundamental to sustainable […] Read more
THE structural foundation of the Roman Empire, history tells us, included the roads that were built. With this communication network, the expanding empire was able to connect newly conquered lands. It did not matter how disparate a culture or how unintelligible a language was to the ruling Romans; the road was the connection they needed. […] Read more
A CLIP from a recent television talk show is doing the rounds on the banned platform, X. In it, a journalist/ commentator discusses how rumours of a possible extension for the Supreme Court chief justice have cropped up time and again. The option was ‘discussed’ during the tenures of Saqib Nisar and Asif Saeed Khosa, […] Read more
What could be more joyous than to see some of the wishes coming true in your lifetime? Within the list of many wishes, a foremost and prioritized wish within my generation of crazy changemakers was to see the understanding of “social entrepreneurship.” Being a witness to a time when the mere word ‘entrepreneurship’ was not […] Read more
Environmental stresses pose significant threats to global food security and have detrimental effects on crop production worldwide, particularly impacting fruit cultivation. Abiotic stresses, such as rising temperatures, reduced precipitation, heat waves, and cold temperatures, disrupt the timing of flowering, fruit set, and harvesting, leading to decreased productivity and compromised fruit quality, especially in arid and […] Read more
Health is recognized as a constitutional right in 140 countries worldwide. However, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is not among them. It is even more surprising to consider the disregard for this “value” assigned to health in a country that ranks 164th out of 193 nations on the Human Development Index. The theme of World […] Read more
International Women’s Day, celebrated annually on March 8th, is a worldwide acknowledgement of women’s social, economic, cultural, and political accomplishments. It serves as a tribute to the significant impact women have made throughout history and as a platform to champion gender equality. Over the years, from the suffragette movements to the #MeToo era. women have […] Read more