By Javed Akhtar Kashmir issue has recently gained significance after India stripped Kashmir off its special status by revoking Article 370 and 35A in August 2019. Pakistan has, indeed, given moral support to the oppressed Kashmiris for over seven decades whose lives have become worse under the draconian rule of the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government under …
By Qudsia Bano ISLAMABAD, Jan 10 (INP-WealthPK): The stock market is growing and its attitude is improving despite the fact that the economy is currently in a downturn for a number of reasons, including political and economic ones, said Hamza Anwar, Equity Manager at Zahid Latif Khan Securities. He argues in an exclusive interview with WealthPK that the …
Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous country, situated at a strategic location in the “Horn of Africa” near the Gulf of Aden-Red Sea, has now become the region’s fastest-growing economy. Since the early 2000s, Ethiopia’s annual GDP growth has averaged above 10%, making it one of the world’s highest rates. The government’s strong and ambitious economic development strategy proved to …
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, as seen in March, has been a focal point for concerns over the Japanese government’s plan to dump contaminated water into the sea. The Tokyo Electric Power Company, according to Japanese media reports, started seabed excavations on May 5 to build a drainage outlet for the nuclear-contaminated water to flow from the Fukushima Daiichi …
By Zhou Dingxing In 2011, the “3/11” earthquake in Japan caused the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant reactor core, unleashing enormous amounts of radioactive material. The operator of the plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), decided to pour in seawater to cool the reactor and contain the leakage. And because the used seawater became highly contaminated with …
By Dr Hussain Yasa Abstract The APTTA renewal between Pakistan and Afghanistan has always increased concern in the light of developing political scenario. This article evaluates the forthcoming challenges and hurdles during the renewal process of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement (APTTA).The agreement expires on February 11, 2021. The article evaluates the two major hurdles First, the technical and procedural problems, …
By Dr. Hussain Yasa Preface So far, In Doha Intra-Afghan Talks, began on September 12, 2020, the deadlock continues and both parties could not yet finalize the procedural rules and agendas of the talks. Still the crucial issues like the probable future contour of the polity, governance, Shariah and civic values are on pending as the real …
Afghan Taliban must honour diversity in intra-Afghan dialogue By Dr Hussain Yasa A week after the Intra-Afghan talks started, at last, the distance between the two negotiating teams started surfacing in the first session of their proper face-to-face talks. It took almost a week for the contact groups to finalize the agenda and the principles of the talks. From the very …
Dr Hussain Yasa, the author. Prologue With the emergence of the political world, the concept of nationhood and the notion of pragmatic ethics of responsibility took over the political psyche of the emerging nations to survive among other preying nations. In the existing world of REALPOLITIK governed by normative political morals neither peace nor related harmony remains to take …
Is there an alternative to the failed Nation-State idea?
