Population growth amounts to serious concern for any developing country. Developing countries have to keep an eye on the workforce needed to run their country economies. Moreover, these countries, usually, already face the challenge of unemployment on a massive scale. This is a major reason that countries have to reconsider their policies in order to […]
Author: Khawja Umer Rashid
Cricket: An enormous opportunity for peace
Sports share enormous potential to bring communities together. Although, we witness the cut-throat competition between athletes and sportsmen, and it amuses the masses with great intensity. But, for centuries, sports have played a great role as a diplomatic tool too in order to dispense peace during hostile circumstances. Since on 28th of August India and […]
Summer Readings: A review
The summer always brings a great opportunity to spend time with books. To expand my experience about life and my own self. And, also rethink my thinking process, as if a kind of introspection through another eye. This summer has proved much fruitful in this regard. I got a chance to read two books, which […]
Good Cop, Bad cop: A discourse of misperception?
Between good and evil, there is much to consider. In politics only interests are permanent. There is no place for moral values. There are no friends, no enemies, only allies and rivals. But, why this game of good cop and the bad cop? Simply saying: we, human beings are good at processing narratives and stories […]
The lost promised-land: Despair against optimism
Zaman, (Pseudonym employed), one of my dear friends, is one among the 65.4 million youth in the country who was provided with a promise based on religious optimism. And, for years he was someone who always came up with great hope for a brilliant future, which he used to envision in the future of this […]
Sri Lanka: A crisis of fortune or choice?
The crisis in Sri Lanka has been frontline news. And, many people wonder, what triggered it? Well, it is hard to lay blame on a single person or as government to be precise. Although, many lay blame on the autocratic setup of Sri Lankan governance. But, as the English proverb says “the devil is in […]
Authoritarianism in the disguise of democracy
“1984” was a fiction written by George Orwell, which was a dystopian fiction about a regime with totalitarian control and surveillance of the masses. Although, Orwell had Stalinist and Nazi German states in his mind when he drafted his writing. But, if he would have seen the state of affairs today, he might have felt […]
Roe vs. Wade: What it means for the American polity
Fifty years ago American Supreme Court has made a very controversial and remarkable judgment in Roe vs. Wade case. Since abortion was banned in many states including Texas except for certain restricted circumstances. And unintended pregnancy may occur in cases like a failure of contraception or in cases of alcohol abuse, as happened in Joe’s […]