Fear that interest rates in major economies will stay relatively high is creeping back and threatens a painful wake-up call for financial markets, big investors warn. With traders laser-focused on…
In a move that could harden Washington's posture toward Beijing for years, the US intelligence community has characterized relations with China as a global ideological showdown that will not be…
Sixty-one years ago, Dr Martin Luther King declared, “Today the choice is no longer between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence”. Emboldened by the success of the…
SCEPTICS argue that the annual climate conferences are elaborate talk shops that produce renewed pledges without commensurate action. This dismissal is fundamentally flawed. It misses the unprecedented transformation unfolding across the global…
Pakistan’s narrative at COP30 should begin with a simple premise that is both moral and practical: countries that contributed least to the crisis must not be asked to finance their…
Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) represent one of the most serious climate-induced hazards in high mountain environments. These sudden and often catastrophic events occur when a moraine- or ice-dammed glacial…
Plastic pollution is not a recent concern. Before synthetic plastics, natural polymers like rubber and cellulose were widely used. However, the invention of Bakelite by Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland in…
In the aftermath of the withdrawal of the US and Nato forces from Afghanistan in August 2021, a significant security concern has emerged for Pakistan. Large stockpiles of military-grade weaponry,…
The latest Climate Risk Index (CRI) 2025 by Germanwatch, released in February 2025, highlights the escalating impacts of climate change and the urgent need for enhanced resilience measures. The report…
THE world seems more unstable and unpredictable today than at any time since the end of the Cold War. Heightened geopolitical tensions, wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and…
