Global Village

Pakistan’s Failure to promote Low-Cost Housing? A Historic Overview

Political sloganeering of Roti, Kapra aur Makaan has won hearts and minds ever since Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, founder of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) rallied...

Walking through Spain’s Islamic history

Having just returned from my vacation in Spain – got to see Madrid, Valencia, and Alicante – it was great to come back and...

Pakistan’s electricity dynamics: Status quo & future direction

The electric power sector in Pakistan has been in focus for more than two decades now, yet, problems in the sector have increased to...

Karakoram Highway: A Dream fifty years ahead of time!

Geographers tell us that some forty million years ago, when the Indian Continental Plate steadily moved north and collided with its Asian counterpart, it...

How Engineers, Designers and Architects fought the pandemic

Pakistan did miraculously well in fighting the first two waves of the corona pandemic. By the end of March 2021, 598,197 people had recovered...

Why Americans don’t really know Pakistan’s Imran Khan?

Najma Minhas | Imran Khan’s unassailable appeal across the world is an oft-mentioned expression, yet, sitting in Washington DC (still the apex power city of...

Losing a generation: The expense of malnutrition

A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts -Wordsworth These beautiful words by Wordsworth ring hollow...

Will ‘vision 2030’ prove to be a savior for the ailing...

The last couple of years have been testing times for the Saudi Arabian economy. Middle East’s “Desert Kingdom” has relied exclusively upon its oil...

The specter of civil-military tensions is stirring, yet again…?

Najma Minhas| The specter of civil-military tensions is stirring, yet again, following the events of Saturday, 29th of April. The inquiry into the “Dawn Lies*”, at...

Bangladesh vs Pakistan: What is Hasina’s Real Problem?

Najma Minhas| Pakistan and Bangladesh relations have dipped to another low point in the last several months, with an increasingly hostile attitude shown by the Hasina...