Opinion
The race for nuclear technology in South Asia began as early as 1944 when Dr Homi Jehangir Bhabha (known as the father of India’s nuclear program) founded the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) devoted to nuclear studies. Efforts by Bhabha and his associates were gaining attention of statesmen such as Jawaharlal Nehru, founder of an otherwise dialogue-centric Nehruvian school of thought which prioritizes talks over military might. On June
This is a guest post by Hassaan Bhagat The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) is a US Federal law which was introduced as a part of the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act in 2010 to increase tax transparency/revenues. The regulation requires all Financial Institutions (FI) (banks, funds, brokers, custodians, asset managers, insurers, etc,) outside of the US to search their records for any listed US persons and report their
The recent meeting between NSAs and Foreign Secretaries of nuclear-armed rivals Pakistan and India in Bangkok caught everyone by surprise. The timing of the meeting, which witnessed participation by other senior officials from both sides, is especially noteworthy. Less than a day after the meeting, it was announced that Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj would be participating in the ‘Heart of Asia’ conference along with a delegation, beginning December
Dr Mohammad Taqi MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Florida. Concurrently, he is also a certified Family Practice and Internal Medicine specialist at the Shands Live Oak hospital in the same state. But this is one side of his professional profile. In Pakistan, he is somewhat known across the elite intelligentsia as a vocal Daily Times columnist holding very liberal views on domestic affairs and
It’s been a couple of weeks since the Paris Attacks, and much of the world is struggling to find new homes for thousands upon thousands of Syrian refugees that have suddenly found themselves without a comforting place to live. Countries like Turkey and Germany have accepted hundreds of thousands of refugees, yet the United States have only agreed to take in a very small percentage of the nearly 4 million
This is a guest post by Haider Ahmed As humans, we can never be safe from facing failures and rejections in life. It is inevitable. But most of the time, people just stay quiet and give up after their failures. They consider it as an end, instead of a beginning. They forget that cement gets mixed in water but eventually ends up as concrete on which water can float but
I came across this rather distasteful announcement by Mr Marty Beard, Chief Operating Officer at BlackBerry Limited, which was published on November 30. The gist of his post is that BlackBerry is leaving the Pakistani market by the end of this year (allegedly) because of repeated government requests to allow interception into its enterprise servers. For those of you unfamiliar with the history, the product was launched by the erstwhile
Continued from Episode 1 ___________________________________________________ What used to be Saddar Market was now a compound filled with broken tiles, shattered glass and poisonous weeds. He noticed sand dunes just a few metres ahead; all he could see on the horizon was the vast expanse of desert. And then, as if caught by surprise, he trembled. “What was that!” he thought to himself. His heart was beating faster and faster. He
This is a guest post by Azm Aftab who is an aspiring writer with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. Body-line bowling, a tactic the English cricket team devised to counter the batting prowess of the Australian batsman Sir Don Bradman, gave rise to the first act of cricket diplomacy. The Australians were less than impressed with the new English tactic and called it ‘unsportsmanlike behaviour’. The latter didn’t
The following is an imagined alternative future scenario, part of the author’s future insight series. The objective of these write-ups is to analyze presumed future occurrences in abstract form and troubleshoot existing activities which could turn them into a reality. _______________________________________________________________________________ He closed his eyes for a brief moment and opened them up again. Everything around had changed. Evolved. He walked on a neat and clean road dotted with sky-rise
