Pakistan wins China investment worth $42B
China on Saturday promised neighbouring Pakistan investment worth $42 billion, an official said, as Islamabad promised to help Beijing fight what it calls a terrorist threat in its far-west. Pakistan’s Prime...
Pakistan 42 on world misery index
2015 update: The 15 happiest economies in the world, based on 2015 misery index (above). The world’s 10 most miserable and 10 least miserable countries (below) Pakistan is at Number 42 on world misery index...
6 ways to raise girls better at negotiating
If we’re going to raise the next generation of good negotiators who happen to be women, here’s where to start. The recent research about women and negotiation isn’t pretty. Often, women don’t negotiate...
The cost of corruption
The cost of corruption | KPMG’s survey of leading companies in India According a World Economic Forum blog post, titled ‘Has globalization made corruption worse?’: Leaders today, regardless of...
China bans actors for using drugs, prostitutes
Jaycee Chan, the son of Hong Kong movie star Jackie Chan, was among celebrities caught using drugs this year China’s media watchdog says that stars who have used drugs or visited prostitutes will be banned...
Power DOES corrupt even the honest: study
9 May update: The searchable Panama Papers are released for public now. It has details of over 200,000 offshore accounts. Of feeling of power, cocaine, arrogance and impatience Historian Baron John Acton famously...
A knight who wanted to become king at all costs
‘Men don’t want brotherhood. They want leadership’ The story of a knight who wanted to become king at all costs By Wali Zahid Since it was released in 1995 and I started teaching leadership readiness...
In global competitiveness, Pakistan ranks with Africa’s poorest states
What is common between Pakistan – the world’s 15th most powerful military power and the 43rd largest economy by GDP – and some of the Africa’s poorest nations like: Guinea, Chad, Angola,...
SC hearing: Can today be a landmark day in the history of Pakistan?
Supreme Court issues notices to Imran Khan and Tahir Ul Qadri | Hearing today on protest marches Guest column by Barrister Ameer Abbas Khan In such a political turmoil, which we have been witnessing for about a...
A 16-year-old Indian finalist shines at Google Science Fair
Arsh Shah Dilbagi, a 16-year-old from India, won a spot as one of Google’s 15 Global Science Fair finalists for his project about helping people with developmental disabilities like locked-in syndrome,...
VIDEO: PTI’s poster boy singer Salman defines Islam as sexy
You might have seen theses images of PTI’s poster boy and Sufi singer Salman Ahmad. Salman with PTI chief Imran Khan at his Zaman Park Lahore home, caring for the injured of Gujranwala incident, him at Azadi...
WSJ: 4 reasons to worry about Pakistan’s latest political crisis
Nawaz Sharif scored a resounding victory in Pakistan’s national elections in May 2013. Just 15 months later, his government is fighting for its life. Thousands of protesters are converging on Pakistan’s capital....
Wali on Pakistan of future
By Wali Zahid Text version of The News article that appeared in the paper on 14 August 2014. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: Wali Zahid Check out newer piece: Wali on The Pakistan 2050 Opportunity Nearly a decade...
No mincing words: Wali’s article on the Pakistan of future appears in The News
23 years after I was the Editor of The News in Lahore, I received a call from Pakistan’s largest-selling English-language daily newspaper to write an article on the Pakistan of future for Pakistan’s...
Will PMLN govt survive PTI/PAT onslaught?
The marches may leave some bad memories! Guest column by Barrister Ameer Abbas Khan | #AzadiMarch Analysis: What may happen News flash on 15 August 1900 hours: Both PTI and PAT marches are in a 100+km range from...
FP: How protests and the military are curbing Pakistan’s democracy
BY MARVIN WEINBAUM | THE SOUTH ASIA CHANNEL | Foreign Policy Who would have thought that a prime minister and his party elected some 15 months ago with a landslide victory would now be facing the possibility of...
Social media love for Nawaz Sharif – Part 8
These images related to personal attacks on Nawaz Sharif, President, democracy, parliament are taken from Facebook during August 2014. Some of them are too inappropriate in image or in language to be placed on...
Social media love for Nawaz Sharif – Part 7
These images related to personal attacks on Nawaz Sharif are taken from Facebook during August 2014. Some of them are too inappropriate in image or in language to be placed on this blog. There’s yet another...
Karachi Stock Exchange nosedives by over 1,300 points on opening
Within an hour of opening, Karachi Stock Exchange shares fell by 1,329 points because of political uncertainty in the country caused by PTI/Imran Khan’s march and TUQ/PAT activities. See also: Everything else...
PTI + PAT V State of Pakistan: use of force instead of courts or dialogue
Guest column By Barrister Ameer Abbas Khan If one attempts to find out the difference between the West’s psychology and that of ours, one would come to know that it is none other than that we are a very emotional...