A Goldman Sachs study has predicted that the four largest emerging economies, Brazil, Russia, India and China, will overtake the G-7 countries which include the US, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Canada by the 2030s. PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Carnegie Institute and HSBC are also making the same claims backed by the solid [...]
It was the first week of January, when a huge lake came into being in result of land sliding in Hunza Valley near village, Ata Abad. This land sliding stopped the downward flow of Hunza River, and it created a lake of almost 12 miles long. At this time, all the experts and Pakistani media [...]
Like everything else, our government is waiting something bad to happen to perhaps gain some more funding from the West and then divert the attention of the people of the country from other issues, as thousands upon thousands of Pakistanis of Hunza and adjoining areas have left their homes and are suffering in open air [...]
We can solve all our problems, including loadshedding, but the problem is that we are not at the helm of the affairs. It’s ridiculous and pointless to expect any innovative and positive news coming from our rulers as they are simply incapable of doing anything productive and worthwhile. There is no problem solver or leader [...]
Musharraf would have been extremely proud of his lassie, as she is keeping up with the media frenzy and not a single day passes when she doesn’t become the ornament of the media. She is working hard to remain in the lines, and for that matter she is not only attending any sort of public [...]
It may sound very dreamy and populist to declare that the Pakistan People’s Party is going to appoint a female governor in Gilgit-Balitistan region, but that is in stark contrast to what they actually promised with the people of that region and what actually is needed there.
It’s not about gender discrimination or something, but it’s [...]
The present regime has done well to introduce the democracy in the Gilgit Baltistan area, which is one of the poorest and under-developed areas of the world, and most of the people doesn’t even know about the modern world. As this area is going for the elections, there is much hope among the masses, and [...]
Gilgit-Baltistan’s first election after attaining the province-like status is set to produce a hung assembly. Major mainstream political parties are likely to get a small part of the pie while a handful of seats would go to independent candidates.
The 12 November election is generating intense campaigns. The PML-N, the PML-Q, the MQM, the PPP, the [...]
Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, quaid Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) PML-N has at last mustered some courage and defying the King of Saudi Arabia. He is visiting, after a long ten years, Gilgit-Baltistan.
Lots has been said and written over the Nawaz Sharif’s inactivity on the national political horizon. He hasn’t gone to Sindh and Balochistan and [...]
The much awaited package of structural adjustment reforms was unveiled by the prime minister of Pakistan, Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, after a cabinet meeting, today.
Despite of high claims of granting internal autonomy, a governor, to be appointed by the presdient, and the prime minister, himself, have been made the supreme authorities. The Gilgit – Baltistan [...]
