Search results

Global Village Space | This year, we are celebrating 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Pakistan and China, formally established on 21st May, 1951. Our deep-rooted and ironclad relationship, over the years, has been nurtured by successive generations of...

Global Village Space | After taking oath as the 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan on August 18, 2018, Imran Khan has visited China three times (2018-2020, once every year) during his 33 months in power. After the first visit to Saudi Arabia, which is customary for all new entrants, the Prime...

Global Village Space | When Mao took power in China in 1949, two years after Pakistan’s birth, China was a far poorer country than Pakistan, with a lower per capita income. Today, China’s growth is an economic miracle, whereas Pakistan’s economy is burdened by unemployment, inflation, and debt...

Global Village Space | Geographers tell us that some forty million years ago, when the Indian Continental Plate steadily moved north and collided with its Asian counterpart, it triggered the creation of the Himalayas. Four giant crisscrossing mountain ranges: the Himalaya, Karakoram, Pamirs...

Global Village Space | Zhou Enlai was the first Premier of the People’s Republic of China. This foreign policy wizard and one of the sharpest strategic minds of the 20th century was a great friend of Pakistan, so relations between the two countries moved from strength to strength during his...

Global Village Space | In May, Pakistan and China will complete seventy years of an epic journey started together. Pakistan recognized the People’s Republic of China in 1950, and diplomatic relations were established on 21 May 1951. Major General. N.A.M Raza was Pakistan’s first Ambassador to...

Global Village Space | Textile exports have reached $11.35 billion in the 9MFY21 from $10.41 billion over the corresponding months of last year, showing a growth of 9.06 percent. This year, record textile exports of $16 billion-plus are expected thanks to the unprecedented Regionally...

Global Village Space | The region comprising today’s Pakistan has long held a seminal place in ancient China’s statecraft and worldview. Historical accounts show exchanges even before the advent of the Christian calendar (Birth of Christ). For example, the name ‘Cheen’ in Urdu for China is...

Global Village Space | President Xi Jinping, on 25 February 2021, announced the end of absolute poverty in China. Four decades ago, more than 80 percent of its population lived below the poverty line; it managed a miraculous feat in taking 770 million people from poverty. China surpassed all...

Global Village Space | PIA or Pakistan’s International Airlines has always been the extension of the state itself and has always worked hand glove in advancing the country’s national interests in foreign lands. It is often maintained that to consolidate the relationship between any two...

Global village Space | That over 60 percent of the country’s population of 210 million is below the age of 35 is no longer news in Pakistan. However, the understanding that unless productively engaged through gainful employment, this youth bulge could become a liability has until recently...

Global Village Space | GVS: Ambassador Nong Rong, this is your first assignment in Pakistan. Pakistan and China are now celebrating the 70th anniversary of their relations. How did you see relations between our two counties before being posted to Islamabad, and how do you see them now from...

Global Village Space | Justice, humanity and self-reliance’, the slogan with which Imran Khan formed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice) into a political party in April 1996, encapsulates its governance measures today. Anyone who has grown up during the 1980s and 1990s and who...

Global Village Space | Imran Khan is an outlier. At every stage of his life, he has never done the ordinary. Whether when he was playing cricket, leading the team, building his first cancer hospital, or launching the Namal knowledge city, it was beyond what was expected. It is no surprise then...

Can TLP be controlled by external players? Why were social media accounts tweeting on civil war and not on the love for the prophet? Who is playing with ****...

Global Village Space | The new Biden Administration has lost no time in unfolding a new ‘strategy’ for breaking the deadlock in the peace talks between the Taliban and the Kabul Government. While the agreement reached with the Taliban in Feb 2020 by the Trump administration is still under...

Global Village Space | As loudly as it echoed in the period leading up to 1947, the two-nation theory still resonates in modern-day “secular” India. The two-nation theory was the basis of the Pakistan Movement, which ultimately led to the creation of a Muslim homeland. Syed Ahmed Khan is...

Global Village Space | The March 1940 Lahore Session of the All India Muslim League—the first in fifteen months—was an epoch-making meeting of the party. The session not only changed the fortunes of the party but also ultimately led to the partition of British India and the creation of...

@YusufMoeed explains why the #IslamabadSecurityDialogue was important for Pakistan to set its narrative out there vs..begging world to give us space to talk about ourselves!