Cultural Environment of Pakistan
The marketing strategy of any company should take into account the culture of the different markets in the target country. The strategy of market delivery should hence factor in the target market’s lifestyle, educational level, moral values and religious restrictions. If a business ignores the cultural needs of its audience then…
Pakistan
There was a time, many, many years ago when healthy eating and the shift towards organic products were considered nothing more than an outlier of the hipster movement. However, around the world, as the years have gone by, the market for organic products has grown exponentially. Why is this so, and how does this work…
Around the world, in the last few decades, the workplace has now seen an inflow of women entering the labour force. In 2020, it is common to expect any workplace to include both men and women in employees. However, the entrance into the workforce has not been without hurdles – since then, organizations and corporations…
Around the world, the last ten years have been monumental when it comes to research, and Pakistan is no exception to this rule. As a country with a huge student population, many of whom will carry their studies onto the post-graduate level, Pakistan creates a lot of research. Although the country may struggle with the…
Social media has inevitably become a permanent part of our lives. If a natural disaster hits the area we're living in; we flock over to Facebook to mark ourselves safe and check on our family and friends. Twitter, despite its character limits, has become a forum for every kind of political debate, mainly due to…
CPJ’s report analysis
The recent global survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) was an eye-opener for anyone who wants to know more about the situation of press freedom all over the world. This fourth yearly report, which states that at least "250 journalists have been imprisoned around the world in 2019 so far…
According to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, in 2018 in Sindh alone, there were 1308 murders, 1590 attempts of murder and 3167 abductions and these numbers are only the reported ones. Due to the corruption in the police force and judiciary system, most of the cases go unreported, which means that the actual numbers are not available…
As of now, India is home to 200 million Muslims. Over the course of Narendra Modi and BJP’s tenure, the peaceful lives of Indian Muslims have been looming in the balance, as they faced threats to their autonomy and status. From religious intolerance to crackdowns and lynching, Muslims have been subject to it all in…
What is Pakistan’s Polio problem?
In the early hours of Wednesday, on December 19, unknown attackers shot at two police officers on their way to a polio vaccination drive in the Lower Dir District area near the capital of Pakistan, Islamabad. The officers died on the spot. According to the local police, these officers were…
Ah yes! The age-old theory of the effete, confused and archetypal male of the society, whose close bond with his mother hampers his emotional development- this dynamic captured in the vernacular with the term “Mama’s boy”
Psychoanalytical theories such as the famous Oedipus Complex by Freud have fostered this stigma surrounding boys, following them well into…