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Through the ages, Weberian bureaucracy has survived the test of times. Colonial rule in the Indian subcontinent that thoroughly advanced …
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Roughly 45 years after the India-Pakistan competition spread to the nuclear domain, the National Command Authority of Pakistan, the apex …
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This year’s International Literacy Day celebrated all over the world, on Sept 8th 2015, carried the Theme: Literacy and Sustainable …
Read MoreWhy we Support the Iran Deal
The US Congress is voting this week on whether to support the agreement that our countries, along with the United …
Read MoreA snapshot of education in Pakistan | Irfan Muzaffar
The dearth of debate on education is no longer an issue in Pakistan. There has been a flurry of reports …
Read MorePak-Afghan Relations: Hanging by a Thread | Khalid Aziz
“O Motherland! Why are all our tributaries Of love in tumult Our rivers of life In revolt?” — Ejaz Rahim …
Read MorePakistan to Maintain Full-Spectrum Deterrence Capability | Liaqat Toor
Islamabad—Pakistan is determined to maintain full-spectrum deterrence capability in line with the dictates of ‘credible minimum deterrence’ in order to …
Read MoreIn Praise of Dissent | I.A. Rehman
ONE of the refreshing features of the minority judgments in the Supreme Court verdict on challenges to the 18th and …
Read MoreRenewing the Drone Debate | Kunwar Khuldune Shahid
Pakistan giving America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) access to Shamsi airfield, heralded the dawn of a duplicitously convenient era for …
Read MoreThe Exchange Rate Debate | M Ziauddin
The state of the world economy as noted by the G-20 finance ministers and central bank governors at a meeting …
Read MoreBridging Pak-Afghan Trust Deficit | Mohammad Jamil
On Friday, Advisor to the prime minister on foreign affairs and national security Sartaj Aziz visited Kabul to attend a …
Read MoreGalvanise Civil Service in all Respects
IT is satisfying that the Ministry of Planning, Development and Reforms, ably led by visionary Professor Ahsan Iqbal, is working …
Read MorePossibility of a New Cold War | Asiya Mahar
SINCE the early 1970s, Russia experienced gradual decline of its influence in the Middle East. The outburst of civil war …
Read MoreConstitutionalisation of Democracy | Iftikhar Ahmad
The founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah believed in constitutionalism, the doctrine that states that the power to govern should …
Read MoreNational Unity And Security | Dr Muhammad Khan
In July 1942, an American press representative asked Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, “whether the Muslims were a nation or not”. …
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