Pandemic has sharpened geo-political conflicts
April 12 ,2021
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By: Ikram Sehgal
The Corona pandemic that the world is struggling with for the second year now has brought home to us some truths about ourselves. The f...
Peace is still a far cry in Afghanistan
April 5 ,2021
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By: Ikram Sehgal
Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani, right, meets US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, in Kabul, Afghanistan
The new US Administ...
Making Pakistan’s electoral laws truly representative and...
March 27 ,2021
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By: Ikram Sehgal
Pakistan’s democracy has been shaken again by the Senate elections. Securing a majority is important for the ruling coalition bec...
India stands against the gateway for South and Southeast A...
December 21 ,2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
Agreement on a project of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) and the Trans-Asian Rail...
It’s time Bangladesh and Pakistan buried the past to forge...
December 10 ,2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Bangladesh with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka
Fifty years should be a suf...
BRI & CPEC: Rail revolution makes Eurasian unification a r...
November 27 ,2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
Trains of the metro train service are seen at a terminal station in Lahore, Pakistan, on Dec. 10, 2019. Photo: Xinhua
Despite the...
Pakistan must cultivate an Eurasian identity for its growt...
November 16 ,2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out earlier this year, it was believed that it would stall ongoing changes in global relations. Some p...
Best way to confront Islamophobia is through dialogue
November 4 ,2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
Muslims take part in a protest after Friday prayer in Dhaka, Bangladesh, October 30, 2020. Photo: Reuters
On his way home fr...
Tantalizing features of the Trump-Biden race
October 31 ,2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
Ten days before the US Presidential elections in 2016, Hilary Clinton was leading most election forecasts. For all practical purposes,...
The Quaid must be turning in his grave
October 29 ,2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
The obnoxious disrespect shown for the Quaid-e Azam’s Mazar by Maryam’s husband Capt. Safdar, while she looked on without a...
How to defuse the ticking pension bomb in Pakistan
October 15 ,2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
The next budget will likely be quite difficult because of a large number of workers reverting back to Pakistan from the Middle East....
‘Naya Pakistan’ will be a far cry if tax collection remain...
October 8 ,2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
One of the major problems in Pakistan is that the amount of revenue collected does not match either the adult population count that can...
Why Pakistan needs to be in dialogue with Abdullah Abdulla...
September 30 ,2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
It is time to heal the wounds of the past: With a mixed parentage of a Pashtun father and Tajik mother, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah is be...
DHA Karachi and CBC disparaged wrongly
September 24 ,2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
The Pakistan Meteorological Department has confirmed that Karachi received the heaviest rain in a single day in 90 years when 231 mm fe...
Conditions for fruit cultivation are ideal in Pakistan and...
September 11 ,2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
Pakistan is climatically capable of growing fruits easily and in abundance. Evidence for the growth of fruit and vegetables in the subc...
Army-run NUST shows Pakistan the way forward
September 5 ,2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
A public research university under the administration of Pakistan’s Armed Forces, the National University of Sciences & Techn...
The ‘Abraham Accord’
August 20 ,2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
On 13th August, 2020 UAE and Israel signed an US-brokered agreement that has come to be known as the ‘Abraham Accord’, impl...
Erdogan’s reclamation of Turkey’s Islamic past is legitima...
August 16 ,2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
Thousands flock to perform Eid prayers at Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey on July 31 2020
Situated on the shores of the Bosphorus...
Opposition parties’ obstructionism is a threat to Pakistan
August 12 ,2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
Pakistan is supposedly a parliamentary democracy and a federation. But the rules of functioning for such a set-up have never been under...
Action of August 5, 2019 presages fresh troubles for Modi...
August 9 ,2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
August 5, 2020 is the first anniversary of India’s unilateral declaration of the way it thinks the Kashmir problem should be solv...
Pakistan’s teeming millions are on the verge of a digital...
July 25 ,2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
Mass poverty and pandemics are both facts of life which involve millions of people at the same time. The same can be said of relief mea...
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Pandemic has sharpened geo-political conflicts
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