Tag: policy

Modern-day Pakistani society is suffering from crises like terrorism, extremism, intolerance and polarisation. In this context, a cultural festival with ...

Yesterday, with the collaboration of the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) and The National Book Foundation (NBF), the launch ceremony ...

Education is a tool that people can use to systematically reshape their lives. The history of education shows that educators ...

When I entered journalism in November 1992, one of the first things that I learned in the newsroom was that ...

Former senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar lampooned the establishment for being "too embarrassed to even admit that their Afghan policy has ...

"Stay connected with India's fastest-growing political party because it is reshaping the political landscape in India." These words are written ...

Pakistan has a history of massive flooding followed by severe drought due to water mismanagement and climate topography, with melting ...

For years, dams have been considered a panacea for Pakistan’s water woes by various experts. They have again emerged in ...

A recent letter from the chairman of Higher Education Commission (HEC) is doing the rounds of offices of vice chancellors ...

In Pakistan, people view political leaders as the most important actors by the people in solving their problems. They defend ...

Every situation offers a set of choices to states that are derived from external as well as internal factors, such ...

The case of Lebanon is a complex one. The country got independence from the French in 1943 and faced a ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War and was the last leader of the Soviet Union, died at the age ...

In an interview with German newspaper Welt that was published this week, Minister of the State for Foreign Affairs Hina ...

In Pakistan, you will often hear lawyers proclaim that law is a ‘professional degree’ and it is with the same ...

Just a few days back, I read a fascinating review of a recently published book on development in the Financial ...

PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz has opined that Pakistan’s difficulties arise from the fact that governments that had a popular ...

The dawn of globalisation in the mid-twentieth century has reduced the scope of traditional international and transnational barriers of territoriality ...

Folk Devils A moral panic is a widespread fear — most often an irrational one. The fear is about someone ...

In June 2010, US President Barack Obama fired his commander of multinational forces in Afghanistan, Gen Stanley McChrystal, for insubordination. ...

PTI leader Imran Khan has told his supporters to prepare themselves and await his call to proceed to the federal ...

Think tanks play a vital role in any country’s decision and policy making by providing expert opinion and analysis. The ...

Political governments in Pakistan are an aberration and not a norm. There is no continuous involvement of civilian governments in ...

Today’s national security policy must navigate ideological divides, maintain a diversity of views, and balance policy options to create a ...

Prime Minister Imran Khan trekked the remote district of Nushki in Balochistan province. His visit comes after recent assaults on ...

It is now about a year since Pakistan’s higher education has been besieged by crisis. The situation was already not ...