دنیا کے کیلنڈر پرکچھ دن ایسے ہوتے ہیں جو ہمیں صرف یاد نہیں دلاتے، جھنجھوڑتے ہیں۔ بیس نومبر بھی ایسا ہی دن ہے، بچوں کا دن۔ یہ دن خوشی کے نعروں، رنگ برنگے غباروں اور مسکراہٹوں کے ساتھ منایا جاتا ہے مگر ہم اپنے گرد دیکھیں، تو یہ مسکراہٹیں کتنی ناپید ہیں۔ یہ دن اس […]
As Pakistan remains embroiled in internal power struggles, its external friends and foes wonder where the country is politically and economically headed. The circumstances post 26th Amendment offer enough evidence to forecast the political direction Pakistan has taken. The economic distress is writ large too. The decision of Qatar’s Al Thani Group to withdraw its […]
The Geographical Pivot of History and Democratic Ideals and Reality are two great scholarly writings by Sir Halford Mackinder, who is considered one of the founding fathers of both geopolitics and geostrategy. The former was written a decade before the commencement of WWI, and the latter appeared in the same year as the Versailles Conference. […]
Improving security, curbing identity theft and creating an infrastructure of trust are high on every government’s digital agenda. Around the world, countries such as Estonia, Singapore, Australia and the UAE have already embraced Digital Identity (Digital ID) systems, transforming how citizens access government and private services securely. These models show that Digital ID is not […]
The Supreme Court has issued a landmark judgement that orders provincial governments to enact urgent welfare reforms to protect the elderly from various forms of abuse and to expand social safety nets for senior citizens. The ruling, which underscores the state’s moral and constitutional duties to protect the elderly, emerged from a case in which […]