By Abdulkhaleq Abdullah
After nearly a decade of regional expansion, Iran is in for a strategic retreat. This time last year Tehran was counting its numerous regional and international gains. But from now on it seems that Iran will have to take stock of its regional and global losses, which are piling up by the day.
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Posted in Articles, Iran Issue, Opinions from Abroad
By Adam Ahmed
The ambitious US-Afghan efforts at reconciliation with the Taliban have made significant inroads over the past month. The inception of the Taliban political office in Qatar and the group’s recent declaration to temper past radical ideologies, reveals that the Taliban may be serious about pursuing a political solution to end the sanguinary decade-long war.
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Babar Ayaz
The media considers itself as the ‘watchdog’ of a society, but the trouble is that this watchdog is free to bite anybody in self-interest without anybody to admonish it. At least in Pakistan where the media is going through a phase of newfound freedom in excitement, the internal and external checks and balances have not developed in the media. This is more true about the electronic media, which is just a decade old.
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Posted in Articles, Media, Opinions from Pakistan
Dr Ashfaque H Khan
There exists overwhelming empirical evidence across countries and across time that political instability is negatively related with economic growth and performance. Political instability lowers private investment, slows economic growth, and gives rise to unemployment and poverty. Political instability breeds corruption, mis-governance, shortens policy-makers’ horizon, inconsistency in policies, and creates volatility in economic performance.
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Posted in Articles, Opinions from Pakistan, Pakistan Economy
Dr Maleeha Lodhi
“Anyone who tells you America is in decline or that our influence is waning doesn’t know what they’re talking about”. So declared President Barack Obama in last week’s election year state-of-the-union address. Zbigniew Brzezinski certainly knows what he is talking about when he discusses these issues in his new book: ‘Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power’.
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Posted in Articles, Opinions from Pakistan, World Affairs
Haider Nizamani
PROPRIETORS of media houses dabbling in politics has a long history in South Asia. The power and propaganda nexus is nothing new.
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IFTIKHAR MIRZA
PIC has issued the suspected drugs that have killed more than one hundred cardiac patients in Lahore so far. The suspect drugs are Cardiovestin (simvastatin), Alfagril (clopidogrel), Concort (amlodipine), Soloprin (aspirin). Continue reading
Posted in Have Your Say
Dr. Anila Parvez Shar
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Afghanistan is known as the world-shattering country. Due to lack of political capability of European Union and the strength of NATO, some extremist and idealist Muslims began to formulate some organizations and networks secretly which were reflecting the interests of the west. Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Opinions from Pakistan, World Affairs
IFTIKHAR MIRZA
11 miners succumbed inside a mine near Abbottabad where the entrance was blocked by a big boulder. The rescue operation hampered by non-availability of earth moving machinery took 48 eight hours and this time was enough for stranded miners to lose their lives. Continue reading
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By Naseem Sheikh
Pakistan has in most areas of agriculture a monsoon climate, and there might be abundant rainfall during the wet season and then a very long dry season where crop production depends very heavily on irrigation water. Groundwater is a very important source of irrigation for farmers. Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Energy Crisis, Opinions from Pakistan
