Justice Isa case

THE 174-page detailed judgement of the 10-member Supreme Court bench on the reference filed against Justice Qazi Faez Isa lays bare some severe...

Insane or inane?

BEING a bit of a geek growing up I spent a lot of time reading comic books, mostly superhero stuff and the like. Now, most of these heroes were...

Gavel and gun in Thailand

The government of Thailand has once again imposed a state of emergency to quell the ongoing demonstrations in the country. The prime minister of...

Country’s first major mass transit project opens

LAHORE: The Orange Line Metro Train, the country’ first electricity-run mass transit project, was inaugurated on Sunday with the ruling PTI and...

Women’s vote

THE participation of women in the electoral exercise still lags behind that of the men. But the gap is shrinking, and that is a welcome...

Mehbooba’s statement

THAT Kashmiris across the political spectrum have rejected India’s unilateral steps to strip the occupied region of its special status last year...

Bigots on both sides

Much hullabaloo has been made about the arrest of Captain Safdar in Karachi. That it was politically motivated is true. After all there is...

China is rising again

Pakistan is now firmly placed in China’s orbit and is likely to stay there for decades to come. Covid-19 that originated in China took a heavier...

Are you now or were you ever? - Part I

The US in the 1940s and 50s was a scene of social unrest, class conflict and militant trade-union and political activities. Art and literature had...

India in flames over Gilgit-Baltistan

Pakistan given ‘most challenging’ FATF plan, says Azhar

KARACHI: The government’s point man on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), Hammad Azhar, said on Sunday that Pakistan was focusing on...

Kabul suicide attack

REGARDLESS of intra-Afghan negotiations that have raised prospects of peace, violence on the ground has increased in recent weeks in the conflict-...

Challenging ignorance

World Polio Day is observed every year on October 24 to commemorate the birth of Jonas Salk, the American virologist who helped create the...

A plastic-coated world

Years ago, I had an opportunity to watch the dissection of a seabird. It was not an academic venture, but one of bearing witness to the devastation...

Justice Qazi Faez Isa judgment

Trump’s gamble on Iran will prove advantageous for China

India has found itself on the losing end of the Trump administration’s gamble in Asia and its “maximum pressure” policy toward Iran. In some...

KPPSC: test pattern

DESPITE being in the 21st century, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Public Service Commission (KPPSC) continues with an obsolete test pattern to assess the...

Will IMF learn?

IT is now over eight months since the last IMF review in February 2020, and the next tranche of payment due as part of the IMF programme that...

Geo-strategic policy options for Pakistan

Rashid A Mughal PAKISTAN’S economic downturn amid a changing political environment presents a challenging agenda for Prime Minister Imran...

Int’l law violations in IIOJK

Dr Muhammad Khan RIGHT of self-determination is the legal right of the people for deciding their future destination. It is the essence of...

US foreign policy viewed as a key driver of Arab region’s events

https://arab.news/yawwb Arab News, in collaboration with YouGov, the leading polling agency, launched a survey of 3,097 participants from 18...

FATF says good, but not good enough

Describing Pakistan as “largely compliant” on 21 of the 27 points of the action plan, Financial Action Task Force (FATF) President Dr Marcus...

Shocking rise in Covid cases

THERE is an alarming surge in Corona Virus cases in the country over the last few days. 847 and 832 new cases were reported on Saturday and Sunday...

Uplift of backward areas!

ADDRESSING an event at Cadet College Isakhel in his home constituency Mianwali, Prime Minister Imran Khan vowed to uplift backward areas of the...

Ever persistent gender gap

There is good news and there is bad news on the electoral front. On the positive side of things, the various districts of Pakistan that once...

Reasons for political optimism in the United States

Serious concerns have arisen about the continued viability of American democracy against the backdrop of the 2020 presidential elections. There are...

The Handless Maiden

Drawing: Mehreen Anwar   Marie Louise von Franz in the interpretation of fairy tales tells that Fairy tales are the purest and simplest expressions...

New wave of Coronavirus!

Attiya Munawer SINCE the onset of the Corona epidemic, the virus has killed over one million people worldwide, while the number of people infected...

Pakistan Politics’ ‘Irritating Uncle’: How Fazlur Rehman’s CV Is Better Than Most Politicians

We all know that there is good and bad in all walks of life. However, we as people employ oblique means of survival, live at the expense of others,...

Palestinian leader must listen to their people, who want US help in ending conflict

https://arab.news/446wy The majority of Palestinians in the occupied territories would like the US to play a bigger role in mediating peace between...

Arab views on White House race reflect a mood of pessimism

https://arab.news/mr8mq Our poll shows that people in the Arab world are pessimistic about both of the possible outcomes of the American...

PM reaffirms support for peace in Afghanistan at inauguration of two-day trade seminar

A two-day seminar for exploring opportunities to boost investment and trade between Pakistan and Afghanistan began in Islamabad on Monday. On the...

The glue of the UK is slowly dissolving

Martin Ivens Six years ago Scotland voted by a 10-point margin to stay part of the U.K. Yet the last nine consecutive opinion polls show the...

The ‘others’ of European host countries: Muslim guest workers

Ergun Yildirim Asociology study co-nducted in Germ-any that was publi-shed this month provides quite enlightening information with respect to the...

Why Russia commands strategic arms talks with weakening US

Cui Heng Russia has proposed to extend the New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) for one year. It is also ready to join hands with the US to...

Will the real America ever come back?

Dave Makichuk “It is not enough to allow dissent. We must demand it, for there is much to dissent from.” — Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 My Dad and I,...

To retire rich, don’t leave too much to your kids

Andy Mukherjee Like self-improvement books, the purpose of pension adequacy surveys is to make us feel lousy about ourselves. Lousy and scared: We...

Ukraine’s gas market reforms can fuel change across Eastern Europe

Dr. Aura Sabadus For many years, Eastern Europe has typically been singled out as the continent’s most difficult region in terms of liberalizing...

On intellectual lethargy

You cannot shut your eyes to the stupendous levels of intellectual laziness in the society if you try. There are just too many reminders of it. The...

The Games Opposition Plays

People lie, people deceive, people play games to satisfy their egos. Sometimes, these games serve an important purpose. Sometimes, they only serve...

Increasing rape cases

The increasing number of rape cases across the country has triggered a debate about why there is a precipitous increase in sexual assault and rape....

Fazal Din’s Pharma Plus

In 1860, Sheikh Noor Elahi, who came from an agrarian background in Gurdaspur, established a general store in Dalhousie, which was a hill station...

How communications service providers can invest in customer experience

Communications service providers (CSPs), despite being at the forefront of the telecommunications industry, have been slow to invest in customer...

Bureaucracy In The Developing World

Bureaucracy in the contemporary developing world has secured a decisive position in the process of political development or retrogression. Being...

EASYPAISA: Transforming digital financial space in Pakistan

Easypaisa is Pakistan’s first mobile banking platform launched in 2009, the only GSMA mobile money certified service in the country. Initially...

Would Mehbooba’s Release Revitalize Kashmiri Politics

5th August 2019 is a day few Kashmiris in Indian-held Kashmir can forget. It is etched in their minds forever. Its importance is not because of...

Remembering the great Quaid

On 11th September, 1948, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah left us at the age of 71. He was an exceptional lawyer, a remarkable statesman and a one...

Branding in electronic age: issues and opportunities

As marketers consider how they may need to rethink their communications during the current coronavirus crisis, one suggestion from behavioral...

The rise of Mutual funds part 2

Link to my previous article ( https://www.brecorder.com/news/40023943 ) In the start of October, I wrote an article on how Mutual funds were...

Branding milk in Pakistan

Everyone knows the famous adage from Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, “What’s in a name? “A rose by any other name would smell as...