February 2010

Mehmood-Ul-Hassan Khan

Most recently, the UAE’s cabinet announced a charter “Vision 2021” which indicated its political leadership’s commitment to excel in each and every filed and achieve desired socio-economic goals. It seems that Vision 2021 is inspired by the principles of UAE founding fathers, it is also guided by the National Work Program launched by His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the President of the UAE, and adopted by Their Highnesses the Rulers of the Emirates and Members of the Federal Supreme Council.

The charter draws the broad contours of the roadmap that the country intends to take in realising those goals. It showed the positive attitude of its visionary leaders. It reflected the humanistic spirits of its rulers towards the people at large. The charter seeks to make the UAE one of the best places in the world to do business. The cornerstone of vision 2021 is the welfare of the people. Read More »VISION 2021: A WAY TO GLORY

By Muhammad Javed

Majority of our Pakistanis keep praising the so called Islamic rule in Saudi Arabia.  My view is this is only the by birth respect we have inherited due to Holy places.   A court in Jizan Saudi Arabia has awarded 120 lashes to a Saudi having six wives at a time.Read More »SIX WIVES MULLAH

In the last 62 years, except for the brief spurt of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s public diplomacy, much of the country’s relations with the US have remained a complex network of deals and personal understandings the rulers of the day give to the American negotiators dangling short carrots on long knives
Read More »Governing the governors of Pakistan —Syed Talat Hussain

If we were to hate the US, then logically we should hate their money too. However, here is the dichotomy. We love their money and just as the Americans urge us to “do more” to curb extremism, we urge them to “do more” financially. This is where the hypocrisy comes in
Read More »Rethinking foreign assistance —Gulmina Bilal Ahmad