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The Article 160 of the constitution prescribes the formation of National Finance Commission (NFC) to manage economic distribution between federal government and provinces. The economic resources are disbursed through a divisible pool. The president of Pakistan has constituted the 10th finance commission for the above stated purpose. However, its composition and agenda items have disturbed […]
The 21st century is marked as an era of snackable content. Everything has been designed to ease and attract the customers. Snackable content ranges from short, attention-grabbing and emotional videos on Instagram or Snapchat to short, sweet and extremely filling book reviews on Blinkist or Good Reads. These are just a few anecdotes to feature […]
The phone rings. I pick up and hear my mother on the other side. After exchange of greetings, she says she isn’t feeling good. She has a cough for the last two weeks, and has taken medicine but there’s no improvement, so she wants to get checked. The way she speaks she seems tired. She […]
We have been living in a digital world for almost two decades but none of us has ever imagined to use technology in a way that would reshape the contours of our daily life in such a great manner. After the corona virus outbreak, the impact of technology has monumentally increased. While the COVID-19 pandemic […]
It is a common observation that regional and global scenario is changing in the wake of China’s resurgence. Both China and United States of America (USA) are trying to assert their dominance over each other. In this context, U.S. is flexing its muscles at multiple levels to create deterrence in the Indo-Pacific region. From abashing […]
Pakistan regards Kashmir as its jugular vein while India claims it as its “atoot aung”–means vital organ. Both the states are trying to dominate each other in this regard while the freedom of thousands of Kashmiris is at stake in this game of geopolitics. Kashmir is a beautiful valley, shares its borders with Pakistan, […]
Nature of Pakistani ODI cricket, absence of senior players in ODI setup, and the thirst to prolong his batting form is going to test Babar Azam as captain of Pakistan’s ODI cricket. With the issue of new central contracts to its players, PCB has announced its new ODI and T20 captain: Babar Azam. This is […]
It’s too early to fathom the implications of this pandemic as the crisis is still unleashing its contagious effects; with each day multiplying the cases and, in some countries, reaching a threefold figure every new day. The phenomenon of globalization which had to fuse efforts together to work for shared benefits and common challenges, it […]
With the country stepping into the second phase of lockdown to fight the corona pandemic, many street vendors have a new business of face masks for them in markets. The sad part is that this emerging face mask business is unsafe, as it does not meet the quality standards prescribed by WHO and other well-reputed […]
Global challenges demand global attention, but the picture of war-torn country Afghanistan depicts another story of selfishness and power struggle. Even the pandemic could not provide an interlude between the warring parties. Irrespective of the halted intra-afghan talks, Washington is stick to its plan of withdrawal. As per the agreement at Doha in February, by […]