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Global Village Space | US “deep state” operative Michael Rubin’s recent fearmongering in “The National Interest” about how CPEC will supposedly facilitate the spread of COVID-19 throughout Pakistan is bound to fail because he lacks any credibility as an objective observer due to his professional...

Global Village Space | Pakistani weapons acquisition shows the country wants to become independent of United States for arms support. Pakistan’s armed forces have started to look towards Chinese suppliers for equipment specially during last two decades. Nevertheless, China has long supplied...

Global Village Space | As India is failing to silence Kashmiris, efforts are reportedly underway to exacerbate violence in Balochistan to compel Prime Minister Imran Khan to ‘not to highlight Indian atrocities in the occupied Kashmir’. In a talk-show, Major (Retd) Gaurav Arya, a consulting...

Global Village Space | In July 2018, Pakistan’s Ministry of Defence Production (MoDP) signed a contract with Turkey’s ASFAT A.S. (Military Factories and Shipyards Management Inc) for four MILGEM corvettes for the Pakistan Navy (PN). Under the contract, Istanbul Shipyard and Karachi Shipyards &...

Global Village Space | Just in case one didn’t agree with this prognosis that the world was hopelessly out of plumb; the corona crisis might help take another look. TUMHARI TEHZEEB APNE KHANJAR SE AAP HI KHUDKUSHI KARE GI JO SHAKH-E-NAZUK PE ASHIYANA BANE GA, NA PAIDAR HO GA YOUR CIVILIZATION...

Global Village Space | With one of the lowest defence budget Pakistan has managed to build its modern military equipment. JF-17 Thunder is the hallmark of the defense production of Pakistan. Its friend China has transferred the technology to Pakistan, yet the South Asian nation has managed to...

Global Village Space| From this point, the buck stops with the Modi government, as the country trudges along the Covid highway. The political move to tap into the residual spirit of Indian federalism in our highly polarised polity helped so far, as the central government could inject into its...

Global Village Space | For nearly a century, or at least three-quarters of one, the United States has embraced a leadership role in the international arena. From World War II well into the post-Cold War era, the US, as the primary architect of the world order, charted the global rules we are...

Global Village Space | The output of scientific research if not directed and applied is paper publication. After research comes development and its application is followed by the commercialization of the products. While science consumes, its application which is technology, generates wealth...

Global Village Space | The lynching of two sadhus and their driver at Dhabadi-Khanvel road near Gadchinchale Palghar, while they were going to Silvassa reveals how abysmal the situation of law and order in Modi’s India is. Modi’s lieutenants have once again threatened to pull down heaven upon...

Global Village Space | India’s Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) took a page from Trump’s playbook by selectively embracing economic nationalism after it revised its foreign investment policy to mandate that companies from neighboring states receive government...

Global Village Space | Abdul Waheed Khan was born into a Pashtun family of the Kakar tribe (which originally migrated from Zhob, Baluchistan) in the suburbs of Peshawar on 23 March 1937. Among the founding fathers of Pakistan, his uncle, Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar, later went on to serve as the...

Global Village Space | Pakistan Navy has one of the best defense systems worldwide. Not many are aware of their complete set of paraphernalia used for defense and surveillance. One of such secret service vehicles sits on the quayside at PNS Iqbal, a special naval base in Karachi, Pakistan. This...

Since its birth in 1947, the Republic of India is once again in search of its soul and identity. Then it cast itself as a secular state and its constitution was formed on these very principles. Even as it was doing so, there was a competing ideology – the Hindutva – that rejected secularism and...

Global Village Space | Cameron Munter the former ambassador of the United States of America ( 2010-2012 ) during his recent visit to Islamabad has highlighted the need for developing new technologies. Textiles alone cannot cover the trade deficit that the country faces. Remittances from...

Global Village Space | Industrial Closure – How Prudent? As Pakistan enters its seventh day of industrial lockdown on Friday 27th (including three days of Pakistan resolution long weekend), the question being asked by all stakeholders is; does the government have an industrial plan amidst the...

Global Village Space | The COVID-19 virus or as President Trump calls it ‘The Chinese Virus’ is the deadliest pandemic known to humanity since the beginning of the 21st century. The scale of this international emergency cannot be understated as it has already proliferated to almost every country...

Global Village Space | A perfect deal is where all protagonists get something out of it. All oil-producing countries stand to gain if oil price rebounds. In bare bones, the OPEC+ group led by Saudi Arabia and Russia finalised in a nail-biting photo finish on Sunday an agreement to steeply cut...

Global Village Space | American Presidential elections 2008: two candidates; one party – Hillary Clinton first woman to be nominated by a party for presidential race, but a woman. On the other hand, Barack Obama, a man whose race made him stand out as no one thought that an African-American can...

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans” – Allen Saunders I doubt there has ever been a time in our lives, when we saw this ironic truth manifest itself in a more realistically severe manner. Empty roads, lifeless markets and malls, aimless mornings, gloomy evenings and the...