Business Security is National Security – Cyber Attacks in UK
According to UK’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), the cyber security arm of GCHQ, Britain will be hit by a life-threatening “category 1” cyber emergency in...
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What, the hell, does „odd” mean? by HILDE JACOBS
“What? You like this terribly hot weather? Well, yes, because you are pretty odd anyway! Ha ha ha ha ha!” These queer words, hurled at...
Kuwait’s Own Brand of Pluralism by Zehra Imam
On a Friday morning in February near the Kuwait-Iraq border, a group of expat schoolteachers and locals — including both Sunni and Shia Muslims —...
Good News and the Bad News…
“I confirm that Mullah Fazlullah, leader of the Pakistani Taliban, has been killed in an joint air operation [with the US] in the border area...
Education – Commercial Mindset and Infrastructural Flaws by DR MARK KHOSA
Education is the fundamental right of every citizen living in any country – this right – is proudly offered from all developed countries on priority...
Psychological Aftereffects and Heritages of Partition of India by AKHTAR ALI SYED
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported in 2017 that nearly 65 million people live outside of their homeland due to ongoing conflicts and persecution. This...
ISIS – DEFEATED BUT NOT DEAD BY: MOHAMMAD TOUSEEF FCSCR
ISIS, Taliban, Al Qaeda etc are not just military groups. They are rather lifelong commitments to a struggle. We must not think for a moment...
Patwaris and the art of avoiding governance failure By Aamir Hussaini
Note: Abbas Nasir, former editor of daily Dawn has written an article ” The Generals and the Art of Undermining Democracy in Pakistan” published in...
Dynamics of Elections 2018 in Pakistan
Rapidly changing dynamics of national politics in Pakistan has replenished the passion for making next government in major political parties and their activists and zealots....
Attending my own funeral by KS SIAL
I don’t remember which exact day or date it was but I found my body, dead, lying in a funeral parlour. My soul was...
Heat Wave and Water Shortage; A Dangerous Plight by . M. Haroon ur Rashid
A picture is circulating on social media. This is the satellite view of different metropolitan cities of the world. Except Karachi all the cities are...
A short conversation with Amargeet Singh Dulat by Mohammad Touseef
The Ex Chief of Research and Analysis Wing, looked back at me with a special demeanour inherited from the field of tradecraft and said,” Young...
LOST TEMPLES OF ISLAMABAD byGulbaz Mushtaq
Part 1: The city of Islamabad stretches between shrines of Golra and Bari Imam. Years ago, when the area was not yet baptized, it was...
Road Sense or Non Sense By M. Haroon ur Rashid
Either people don’t have road sense or they are completely non-sense. When you go on the road, you will find more idiots and less drivers....
Why I Left Pakistan For Second Time? Mark Khosa
Like every other department in Pakistan, higher education department (HED) Lahore, under the government of Punjab, is also on the way of degradation and deterioration....
Dream of a Miller’s Son by ABDUR REHMAN QADEER
Once, a miller’s son was playing with pebbles. Making some soldiers, and others, the rebels. Looking sadly at the expensive toys In the hands...
Hoping for Light; works of Akhtar Jafri— Hilde Jacobs
TRANSLATIONS OF THE GREAT PAKISTAN URDU POET AKHTAR HUSSAIN JAFRI HISTORIC POEMS OF AKHTAR HUSSAIN JAFRI, WRITTEN DURING THE ERA OF GEN. ZIA UL HAQ’S...
FAREWELL by Kevin L Banshee
“Open fire!” The Sargeant yelled back at his troops. From every direction bullets pierced the air all concentrated on a single target. I caught each...
“On Pakistan’s upcoming Elections” by Sheharyar Bhatti
Before general elections, every political party try to improve its manifesto and present to the local people of country. Party’s official might think that people...
“The Western trio in Syria – The history repeats itself and the cycle goes on” by Afshan Bangash
I share the curiosity of the poor British MPs on why PM Theresa May bypassed parliament on Syria; May is facing a furious backlash from...
