Monsoon Season on Steroids: Any Lessons Leaned for Future?
As aptly described by the U.N. chief Antonio Guterres, Pakistan has been hit by a "monsoon season on steroids." Images of men on a...
Media suppression: Another era of terror launched in Pakistan
Three months of tumultuous political upheaval and media clampdown in Pakistan had seen several journalists taking pre-arrest bails from Islamabad High Court, including Arshad...
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...
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...
Makran Coastal Highway: Balochistan’s bridge across time and space!
In his recent interview with GVS, CM Balochistan Jam Kamal Khan referred to this gigantic structure running along the Arabian sea as “Balochistan Coastal...
What President Joe Biden and PM Imran Khan May share
In March/April issue of Foreign Affairs, almost eight months before the US November elections, Joe Biden, then one of the several presidential candidates, wrote...
PDM good start but will go nowhere!
Country’s opposition parties, after months of protracted negotiations trying to come together, finally unified under the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) in end September. This...
Pakistan’s strategic options after Indo-US Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement?
Days before the US elections, a significant development has occurred between India and the US, which will affect the strategic stability of the region....
India vs China: India calling for China’s Economic Boycott is only...
They don’t know what hit them! This is how India’s Energizer bunny anchor Arnab Goswami, in his prime-time live telecast on Republic TV, was...
Wuhan spirit breaks down: Will India learn that it cannot have...
In Jonathan Swift's 1738 farce "Polite Conversation," the character Lady Answerall says, "she cannot eat her cake and have her cake". A modern-sounding variant...