Menace of narco-terrorism
Every survey made since promulgation of Prohibition (Enforcement of Hadd) Order, 1979 ["Hadd Order"] shows that this nation has been persistently sinking deeper into narco-terrorism-a term signifying the drug-terror trap.…
Swiss secrets
Swiss banks are where the ‘dirty money’ of the politicians, drug dealers, tax dodgers, traffickers in blood diamonds and other such people is generally parked. This perception has held sway…
Dying to escape crisis-hit Greece
Strapped to the underbelly of a train, 23-year-old Ali Arzin from Afghanistan had hoped to cross the border of crisis-hit Greece into Macedonia and eventually reach another EU country. But…
Army isn’t the solution
After five years of PPP's 'democratic' dispensation (over which its co-chairman and Pakistan's sitting president has 'no regrets') the issue reaching the boiling point is the deep-rooted lawlessness all over…
Counterfeit medicine trade targets Africa’s poor
From Cameroon to Ivory Coast, Kenya to the DR Congo, traders in counterfeit drugs do a thriving business, sometimes at the cost of human lives. "Street medication kills. The street…
Donor shortage slows China’s reform of organ transplants
China's plan to phase out organ transplants from executed prisoners is hampered by a lack of donors, caused partly by traditional beliefs and by local health officials' reluctance to join…
Combating financing of terrorism – II
Appraisal of global and domestic initiatives: Since the tragic event of September 11, 2001, the United States and its allies have been engaged in what they call 'war on terror'…
Combating financing of terrorism – I
"Pakistan has taken steps towards improving its AML/CFT regime, including by issuing an SRO to increase the maximum monetary sanction for non-compliance with S/RES/1267. However, despite Pakistan's high-level political commitment…
No fear of accountability
The Victorian chimney sweep in Britain, the first industrial nation, was once an even bigger symbol of inhumanity than the bonded child labourer and sex-trafficked women of Pakistan and India…
