Balochistan has been and remains a bleeding sore. Regardless of the characterisation we attach to it, it is Pakistan’s number one problem awaiting a solution. There are two sides to the ‘conflict’ (it isn’t an insurgency anymore): Dissident groups who are estranged against the state and have camps and hideouts outside Pakistan, possibly aided, funded […]
Balochistan has been and remains a bleeding sore. Regardless of the characterisation we attach to it, it is Pakistan’s number one problem awaiting a solution. There are two sides to the ‘conflict’ (it isn’t an insurgency anymore): Dissident groups who are estranged against the state and have camps and hideouts outside Pakistan, possibly aided, funded […]
Cosmology is a grand science; it takes our imagination into the vast depths of the Universe. The Universe is so big that we cannot, in principle, see the whole of it. The universe, observable to earth-dwellers, is only 46.5 billion lightyears in every direction from our Earth, where each lightyear is a length of 9.46 […]
Cosmology is a grand science; it takes our imagination into the vast depths of the Universe. The Universe is so big that we cannot, in principle, see the whole of it. The universe, observable to earth-dwellers, is only 46.5 billion lightyears in every direction from our Earth, where each lightyear is a length of 9.46 […]
President Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping’s tête-à-tête has pushed the envelope of cooperation, irrespective of the fact that they have issues to differ. The telephonic conversation, however, underscored the need for adhering to the principle of “mutual respect” in an endeavour to achieve the goals of peaceful coexistence and broader cooperation in an […]
Pakistan’s demographic profile is often described as a “youth bulge”, but without urgent and sustained job creation, it risks becoming a source of instability rather than an economic dividend. That warning, delivered bluntly by World Bank President Ajay Banga, should concentrate minds in Islamabad. Over the next decade, Pakistan must generate between 25 and 30 […]
Pakistan’s demographic profile is often described as a “youth bulge”, but without urgent and sustained job creation, it risks becoming a source of instability rather than an economic dividend. That warning, delivered bluntly by World Bank President Ajay Banga, should concentrate minds in Islamabad. Over the next decade, Pakistan must generate between 25 and 30 […]
Dear Madam Talat Ahmed, Recently, someone acknowledged you on social media as “the mentor, the other mother and a confidant”. I am writing to endorse these titles and to share some insights into the ways of teaching, seeing and thinking that we learnt from you. For years, you received the freshmen at NCA in sculpture […]
Dear Madam Talat Ahmed, Recently, someone acknowledged you on social media as “the mentor, the other mother and a confidant”. I am writing to endorse these titles and to share some insights into the ways of teaching, seeing and thinking that we learnt from you. For years, you received the freshmen at NCA in sculpture […]
On a cold, hazy morning, hundreds of kite-flying enthusiasts lined up at Mochi Gate in Lahore’s Walled City, waiting for their turn to buy kites ahead of this week’s Basant festival, which is returning after a year-long hiatus. Hundreds of others swarmed the adjoining streets as kite sales commenced at some 300 designated places and […]