Transport is a key contributor to economic growth, prosperity and to societal well-being. Physical links across Asia and the Pacific have increasingly improved through years of steady investments in the…
The pursuit of science, technology and innovation (STI), consistent with the guiding framework of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and COP21, is critical for the implementation of the Sustainable Development…
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. An oft-repeated and paraphrased line from a famous French statesman George Clemenceau from a hundred years back goes something…
A month ago, the odds of Prime Minister Modi surprise-landing in Lahore on Christmas Day to meet his Pakistani counterpart would have been next to nil. But 2015 is ending…
During the last four years, thousands of Christians have left Pakistan to seek asylum in Thailand from where media reports of their plight in prisons and detention centres have been…
Charges of election rigging and fake voters’ lists have mostly pertained to our politicians. Regrettably, the long list of alleged ‘tricksters’ has now come to include some journalists in the…
The India-Pakistan dialogue has picked up steam. Meetings have been agreed with impressive precision. Fingers must be kept crossed as to whether both parties are now in a truly negotiating…
LEON Trotsky once declared: “Process is substance; the end is irrelevant.” In politics and statecraft, the outcome of negotiations is largely determined by the process adopted. Process defines the agenda,…
In September 2012, the federal climate change ministry developed the National Climate Change Policy. The goal of the policy was to mainstream climate change in various sectors. However, the policy…
The opponents of the metro bus have infinite reasons against the mega-billion commuter facility such as the apparently inflated costs and government’s lopsided preference for these projects over health, education…
