Category: Insight

Nations Should Take the Lead of Pakistan in Job Creation, Such as ’10 Billion Tree Tsunami Program’

IRSHAD SALIM — Last month, I shared an infographic called the “Pakistan Again Moment”, in…

Gossip in Islamabad…

DESPARDES — No, it’s not about relief in fuel prices or reduction in the whopping…

Three and a Half Star In All Homes

IRSHAD SALIM: There appears to be a three-an-a-half star like situation. The Starry Night by…

Coronavirus Pandemic Could Last For Two Years

DESPARDES — A new report warns the pandemic that has already killed more than 242,000 people…

INSIGHT: Frontloading National Security With Economics the Way Forward

IRSHAD SALIM — There’s a new normal everyone realizes but may have found it difficult…

Views of a Psychiatrist From Pakistan on Covid 19 Crisis

DR. MOWADAT RANA — Pandemic means (Pan: all, demos: people) we all will meet Covid-19…

A Woman of Pakistan Origin Sets an Example in New York

IRSHAD SALIM — A note (below) being shared about a family in Brooklyn, New York…

John Lennon ‘Imagines’ One World, No Countries …Back in 1971

IRSHAD SALIM — Neither wars (under different pretexts) nor peace through the UN or bilateral,…

When Will COVID-19 Pandemic End (Infographics)

SoDATA (South Data) — A data-driven estimation of end dates indicate that the impact of…

THE SHIFT: IMF Suggests Pakistan ‘Debt Management Office’ Instead of Debt Coordination Unit

SoDATA (South Data) — Pakistan’s gross public debt and liabilities have risen to US$210.7 billion…

INSIGHT: New World Order on Wreckage of the Old

SYED HASAN JAVED — A lot of people ask me about the likely trajectory of…

#COVID19 UPDATE: Source a ‘Mystery’; Oil Plunges; Germany’s $163Bln Invoice to China

DESPARDES — The UK has reportedly joined US intelligence officials in investigating claims that the…