Munir Ahmed
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Pakistan
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No Time to Save Humans in Afghanistan
Insensitivity prevails for 28 million humans of Afghanistan while the UN is shouting for urgent help believing that half the population now faces acute hunger, over nine million people have been displaced and millions of children are out of school. The lives of one million children are at risk as they are now facing severe […] → Read More
Repairing Another Crack in the CPEC
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and the ISI chief Lt General Faiz Hamid have had their “strategic meetings” with Chinese counterparts on a variety of issues. They have assured China of addressing their key concerns over the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects in the context of the July 14 Dasu incident in which nine Chinese […] → Read More
B3W — Will it bridge the US trust deficit?
More than three weeks now, the UK hosted the 47th G7 summit announced to jointly work on Biden’s initiative “Build Back Better World (B3W),” which is outlined in a 70-point “Carbis Bay G7 Summit Communiqué.” Apparently, the Communiqué speaks of the post-Covid-19 agenda that would bridge and support the lags the pandemic created for over […] → Read More
Stoning the environment to death
The stone crushing mafia appears to think it is more powerful than any court of law. Indeed, it certainly appears to have some influential backers. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Power Crushers (Installation, Operation and Regulation) Act was promulgated on January 3, 2020. Yet by March of the same year, the Supreme Court had directed provincial governments […] → Read More
Behind the Bahria Town façade
The Sindh government has arrested hundreds from all over the province. Among those detained are community leaders, farmers, trade unionists, and civil society representatives. All were protesting the razing of ancestral villages and occupation of these lands by Bahria Town Karachi (BTK); as well as the forced eviction of farmers and poor communities. Some have […] → Read More
CPEC Authority Act
At the very end of last month, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Authority won legal cover as the the CPEC Authority Act 2020 sailed through the Senate. The Bill, already passed by the National Assembly, unexpectedly landed in the Senate through supplementary agenda minutes before the closing of the day’s proceedings. The opposition members strongly […] → Read More
Defending hfuman rights start at home
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi arrived on Sunday night at Islamabad airport after his “very successful diplomacy efforts” for a ceasefire in Gaza. When he spoke to the waiting media, he was the conqueror returned from battle. His admirers were there to shower rose petals on him while shouting their appreciation. The press conference kept […] → Read More
Genocide in Gaza
Diplomatic moves on Sunday failed to put a stop to Israel’s air and land strikes on occupied Palestinian land due, in large part, to American complicity. This was seen over the weekend when the US, for a third time, vetoed a joint statement by the UN Security Council that would have condemned Israeli aggression while […] → Read More
Pakistan-India ceasefire on LOC: What next?
Shall we really hope some miracles to happen to resolve the Kashmir conflict and to improve the regional peace after Pakistan-India have announced reaching at the agreement to recommit themselves to the 2003 ceasefire arrangement at the Line of Control (LOC)? Shall they actually abide by their commitment to what they have agreed to, taking […] → Read More
Mountaineering – a well disowned sport
Thank you Muhammad Ali Sadpara for putting Pakistan’s mountaineering in limelight at the cost of your life and two other international mountaineers. Once again, it is realized that Pakistan needs to have mountaineering recognized, owned and supported through state patronage. The mountaineering in Pakistan seems to be like an orphan child for the last seven […] → Read More
Herd immunity or the Chinese model
With more than 70,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and increasing toll daily deaths, Pakistan is getting into miserable condition while the decision makers are still reluctant to take any strict measures. Rather they are trying to convince the nation that the virus would peak somewhere in the first week of July. It means another six … → Read More
COVID-19: Pakistan needs to behave
COVID-19, commonly known as Coronavirus, continues to take lives across the globe. The US tops the list of sufferers with almost 200,000 confirmed cases and more than 20,000 deaths till the Saturday night. Italy and Spain had already fallen on their knees. Technically advanced countries and the leading economic powers in Europe and other parts … → Read More
One year of many humiliations
Congratulation on completing one year of historically unprecedented public and international humiliation of the country to all those who voted, supported, manoeuvred and blatantly rigged the 2018 elections for Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaaf (PTI). The process adopted by the ‘change-makers’ to bring ‘third party’ into the so-called political governance of Pakistan has shown the extent of ridiculous … → Read More
Gambling on peace in Afghanistan
Recent attacks in the war-raged Afghanistan by the Taliban could reflect about the possible projection of security and peace situation in the country after the withdrawal of the US troops. The power fragmentation is obvious and clear. The key elements in the Afghanistan peace process know that no stakeholder would compromise for the less even … → Read More
It’s not so civilian
Selected or elected prime minister, does it make any difference if the policies and agendas are dictated and directed by those who are not supposed to do it? If we review Pakistan’s history of “civil regimes” that is actually half of the total while the other half has been the total military dictatorial regimes. Unfortunately, … → Read More
Hypocritical regulations on plastic bags
Good and bad things can go together. This is what proves the new proposed legislation by the Ministry of Climate Change (MoCC) that is titled as “Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency [Pak-EPA] Ban on (Manufacturing, Import, Sale, Purchase, Storage and Usage) Polythene Bags Regulations, 2019”. The good part of the proposed legislation, as described in its … → Read More
A new era begins in Japan
May 1, 2019 was a usual day of political and economic turmoil in Pakistan while imperial transition took place in Japan. Widely reported in the international media, most of the Pakistani media remained ignorant about the Japanese royal ceremony. Wasn’t it strange that we remained silent on an extremely significant day in the history of … → Read More
Rewrapping green initiatives
Launched in the mid of October last year, the present government’s very important initiative Clean and Green Pakistan is still starving for funds. Nothing much seen on ground during the eight months except loud claims, official statements and a couple of memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with the corporate sector. Cleverly, these organisations rewrapped their on-going … → Read More
Learning from an African island
Republic of Mauritius is an island in the Indian Ocean. Located about 2,000 kilometres off the southeast coast of the African continent, the country had been a colony of Dutch, French and Britain before to get independence on March 12, 1968. A thinly populated country is facing the aging challenge while it also fears to … → Read More
Feminist women’s march
March 8 is globally marked as an International Women’s Day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. As stated, no one government, NGO, charity, corporation, academic institution, women’s network or media hub is solely responsible for International Women’s Day. … → Read More