The Pakistani rupee plunged to about 115.5 per dollar in early trading from 110.5, marking an unacknowledged but a sudden, quiet and sharp devaluation of the Rupee on March 20.
Last year, it suffered the greatest devaluation witnessed in the last 10 years. On July 5 2017, the rupee fell 3.1 per cen

Madhav trying to put cart before horse (ii)- Mainly martial and not merely civilian approach will bring USA & India nearer (iii)- ‘Americanism’ believes in hierarchy in the order of martial (in the service of human rights), criminal and civil matters (iv)- Without offering solution to martial proble

Allama Inayatullah Khan Al-Mashriqi and Allama Sir Mohammad Iqbal are regarded as legendary personalities of Asia. The two men have much in common; both graduated from the University of Cambridge and were illustrious thinkers, philosophers, writers, intellectuals, and politicians. They reached the h

Houthis officially “Ansar Allah” are a Yemeni rebel group adherent to Zaidism a branch of Shia Islam. Zaidi Imams ruled Yemen for 1,000 years until the 1962 revolution. Houthi movement in early 1990 began as a cultural movement intended to counter Wahhabist and Salafist influence and end the politic

First Farooq should find-out through vote (arranged by his party) whether Kashmiris want to be with India or with Pakistan (ii)- Farooq should know without unification of J&K there is no Kashmir solution (iii)- Farooq should now try to bring succor to profusely weeping and bleeding Kashmiris and ult

A senior editor in Thailand is being victimized for putting spotlight on an issue that the World Health Organization (WHO) refers to as "invisible killer" of over 6.5 million people globally every year. Air pollution warrants much more urgency to save lives and help people breathe life, and not inha

Discarding of resjudicata by Lower Court, legally wrong (ii)- As per High Court, gun allegedly used can’t kill deer (iii)- As per High Court gun allegedly used is same in all three cases (iv)- During SLP in Supreme Court Lower Court can’t give judgment discarding resjudicata (v)- Hindutva party BJP

The most hard-hitting message around World Tuberculosis Day 2018 for us was on twitter by Shirin Aliabadi, who tweeted that Dr Richard Horton (Editor in chief of The Lancet) said, politics is, in many ways, the ultimate determinant of our health. Decisions made by politicians determine our well-bein

The stories of Yazidi woman as sex slaves by ISIS in Iraq and Syria a few years back must have shocked the world, but we Pashtun Afghans have experienced this way before that, in the early 90s. After the fall of Dr. Najibullah government in Kabul, Pakistan armed officers abducted thousands of Pashtu

Pakistan represents one of the worst situations in the world for religious freedoms. It is a big jail for Baloch as a national minority and for Hindus, Christians and Ahmadis as religious minorities.
Enforced disappearance of Baloch women and kids is taking place in France-sized Balochistan as I s

In view of muscle flexing by China in South East Asia region my articles / letters http://aapress.com/ethnicity/chinese/india-can-help-with-tibet/ ; and https://www.alwihdainfo.com/TLHRC-through-Prez-Trump-US-Congress-should-encourage-Indian-Organizations-for-Tibet-solution_a62448.html ; and http

This pretty well sums up the pathetic situation in which many migrants find themselves today. And while immigration refers to people who legally relocate to another country, the word migration can also be used in the context of birds and animals. In the case of human beings, migration is not a choic

Tibet problem can be solved if India plays pro-active role in it (ii)- TLHRC (also through President Trump / US Congress) should encourage Indian Organizations to work for Tibet solution (iii)- Registered organizations in India (political or otherwise), preferably through NHRC of India, can work for

Yemeni war as entered into its fourth year with more than 10,000 people killed and pushed the country to the brink of famine. Yemen has long been the poorest country in the Arab world, with limited arable land and water resources. Although it has some oil but this resource never made the country ric

As the time-honored adage advises, to every complex problem there is a simple solution, but it is wrong. I do not bear simple panaceas or simpleminded slogans. What I do hope to offer is an unstarry - eyed view of the fate of self-determination in Kashmir; and, the indispensability of convincing In