The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and the subsequent civil war that plagues Afghanistan to date, have been the harbingers of terrible unrest and destitute in Afghanistan. As a result, thousands of Afghans have fled to safety in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which not only shares an extensive border with Afghanistan, but also holds strong ethnic…
Three decades after the World Wide Web took the world by storm, smartphone ownership, access to and use of the Internet, and broadband adoption has grown on an enormous scale for Americans across the hierarchy of classes. However, despite the large-scale assimilation of technology into society and the narrowing of the digital divide, differences…
Reading Time: 5 minutes akistan as a nation is ‘Food Secure.’ However, the presence of excess food does not really mean that the populace is able to successfully access this food. Poverty, poor management of resources and not enough modernization has left millions malnourished and under the constant risk of…
Thousands of Sikh devotees gather at the Dera Baba Nanak Shrine in the Gurdaspur district of Indian Punjab every year. From here they can view but not access the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur which is situated across the border in the Pakistani Punjab. To be able to visit the shrine, every year pilgrims have to…
Reading Time: 5 minutes While debt, in general, may not be all that bad and many countries borrow a massive amount of money from abroad, it may not be ‘good debt’ if it is taken to ease existing expenditures such as a fiscal deficit or to pay for imports. If…
Every educational system aims to facilitate the learning of information, to refine and polish skills, as well as to harness personal interests and qualities. Over the course of time, many institutions have sprung up in the name of providing academic opportunities to impressionable minds. They range from the affluent and popular choice of private schooling…
On June 12th, the peaceful protest in Hong Kong devolved into a riot as police fired rubber bullets and tear gas in the protesters in Hong Kong. This was only one of many violence-filled protests that took place in light of the push for the extradition bill.
The city consistently resists the attempt of China to…
Ever since the Internet came into being, China has attempted and succeeded to monitor and control how its citizens use it. The Chinese government uses technology famously known as ‘The Great Firewall’ which has been engineered to block websites on a variety of sensitive topics such as democracy, human rights, and dissent.
Nearly hundreds and thousands…
A few days ago, news broke that the Brazilian rainforest had been burning for three weeks. The precedent has been set by the President of Brazil, who claims that Brazil does not owe the world anything and it is the right of the country to utilize its resources to stimulate the economy. He has stated:…
Over the past couple of years, the possibility of a nuclear war is becoming more likely, owing to factors like tensions between the US and North Korea, US and Russia and more recently, India and Pakistan given the illegal usurpation of Kashmir by India . As events have unfolded over the last weeks with no…