Pakistan’s Fragile Foreign Policy-CSS Pakistan Affairs Gen Zia Ul Haq, for all his faults, understood Arab psyche very well. I recall his words to our Advisory Team in Qatar, “I am very pleased that Qataris have greatly appreciated your work. …
Gender Disparity: something we are at top in – CSS Current Affairs ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has been ranked the second-worst country in the world for gender inequality for the second consecutive year. According to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender …
Pakistan’s Sustainable Development Goals (Part-X:Demographic Dividend) According to Pakistan’s Vision 2025, 1.5 million young people will enter the Pakistani job market every year till 2040 – that is 1.5 million new jobs that have to be created each year just …
Pakistan’s Sustainable Development Goals (Part-IX:Employment-CSS) Youth unemployment, mass under-employment, and the post-recession risk of jobless growth and recovery aptly describe the present global economic landscape, including that of Pakistan. Global unemployment increased from 170 million in 2007 to nearly 202m …
Pakistan’s Sustainable Development Goals (Part-VIII:Clean Energy-CSS) In 2015, a UNDP assessment described Pakistan as “one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change”. The study expressed particular concern about climate change threats to the country’s food, water, …
We Have Learned From History That We Have Not Learned From History I am not sure if the peculiar strains which confronted Pakistan immediately on its emergence as a free state are adequately understood. The first strain was ideological. …
Pakistanis hope that the army’s new chief of staff, Raheel Sharif, will crack down on militants and boost security. But can one man change a corrupt legal system and prejudiced security infrastructure? Pakistan has finally found a hero in …