Sunday, March 16, 2025

Exclusion of EEZ from High Risk Piracy

Piracy at sea with all its lore and literature is not new and is believed to have existed in turbulent periods as early as...

Legalising Corrupt Practices

In a paper on “The Impact of Corruption in Post Conflict Environments on Contracting Agencies”, Mark Carruthers of Centerra says that corruption prospers at...

Tears of Bengal

Since 1971, in Pakistan, every year in the month of December, there is a lot of ‘breast–beating’ for the loss of East Pakistan. An...

Eliminating Terror Financing from Banks

The majority of the corruption cases the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) tackled when it first came into being in Oct 1999 pertained to misdemeanor...

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Recently the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia celebrated its 85th National Day. Saudi Arabia holds an important position in the comity of nations and is...

Unplugging Terrorism via Deradicalization

On the eve of Hajj, Saudi Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz said the terrorists have gone astray and are destroying the image of Islam....

What to Make of the Xi–Obama Washington Summit?

This was never going to be an easy meeting between the leaders of one of the oldest democracies and the world’s largest dictatorship. The...

From The Editorial Desk (Oct-2015)

Dear Readers, Pakistan established relations with Afghanistan immediately after its independence in 1947 but because of issues related to the Durand Line the relations started...

Metaphysics, Eschatology (Al Ghaib)

“He (alone) knows that which is beyond the reach of a created being’s perception, and to none does He disclose aught of the mysteries...

My Brother and Companion

Syed Qamar-Ur-Zaman Bukhari died on October 13, 2015. To Allah Almighty he belongs and indeed to him he shall return. I have no words...