About 4,500 Indian troops are presently posted in Congo under the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission. In the past Indian Army personnel were involved in activities like gold smuggling, sexual abuse and other acts of misconduct, which prompted the Congolese government to write to the UN to stop sending replacements of Indian troops. Indian peacekeepers [...]
Women’s Day is for the “Begums” of elite and for the NGOs to publish glossy reports, hold lavish seminars and bark lofty speeches in the plush halls of 5-star hotels and afterwards going for sumptuous meals. These non-government organizations claim to work for [...]
Well enough of the reconciliation in Balochistan. If that’s the way reconciliation is going to work then we are better off than that. The abduction of UN official John Solecki has made it clear that the smiling and flashing reconciliation bids of Asif Ali Zardari have failed miserably and there is nothing like common grounds [...]
Establishment of my country, named Pakistan for which our great leaders had been striving, is an established fact for the last 60 years. Indisputably the motivating force behind creation of Pakistan was to carry out an ideological state for the Muslims where they could fashion their lives according to dictates of Islam and minorities could [...]
When the government will wake up? This is the most appropriate time for them to stir-up as a US national and provincial head of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has been kidnapped. Pakistanis die, get kidnapped and looted and harrassed routinely in the Balochistan, but that is not the big deal [...]
The spectacular failures of United Nations have shown it’s inability to provide any lasting and real relief to the world except playing lackey in the hands of United States of America. But then United Nations is an ideal thing and ideals don’t real exist. UN just aspires and to aspire is wonderful, to fail in [...]
India wants to do what America is doing with the Pakistan. India wants to do whatever it wants at will. India has already gained a lot from the Mumbai terror attacks. Pakistan is playing on the backfoot, but India should be very careful, as it is playing with fire and if Pakistan is pushed to [...]
Even as we in Pakistan are confronted with multiple developments and issues, the slaughter of innocent Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of a murderous Zionist state has focused our emotions of anger, helplessness and frustration alongside similarly displayed emotions across the civil societies of the world. For the Muslims in particular the attempted genocide [...]
Up until 1999 the IMF had been using the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility (ESAF) as the key instrument for supporting poor countries in implementing approaches to bring about substantive changes in the way countries’ programs are formulated. Later in that year the ESAF was replaced by the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) which places [...]
