When those who are given the mandate to govern, make the country ungovernable then the only way out for the civil society is to lead the way to show the leaders that those who are mislead can lead too when the time comes. It is far more important to self-govern than handing over the right to govern to those who cannot see beyond their nose.
Malala mishap and global media scenario in retrospect taliban and pakistanSUN&FZ Associates
Pakistani Talibans had tried to impose their Nizam-e-Adl in Swat and were thrown out of there proving and conveying clearly and forcefully that their kind of Islam was not acceptable and workable in our country. So as Muslims what are we afraid of?
We have a more secular than a secular government. We have a dedicated Secular Media of Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s Secular Pakistan. We have an army ready to fight against any attempt to disturb the way we live in this world and the way we believe in the world after. When the Pakistani Talibans have failed in Swat how can they succeed in other parts of the country where we have law enforcing agencies as well as rangers and army cantonment areas? Do we think that a few isolated barbaric incidents can succeed in terrorizing entire population of Pakistan and make them Taliban Branded Shariah Compliant? Can a country that has a brave teen age girl like Malala who has the courage to defy Taliban and carry on her mission be expected to let so-called Pakistani Taliban impose their “Alien to Islam Shariat in a “RELIGIOUS COUNTRY of TRULY MUSLIMS like Pakistan”?
The consequences of the wrong actions in the right directionSUN&FZ Associates
It is not that those who mattered in corridors of political power were not timely advised to put Pakistan’s derailed political process back on track. It is also not that the so-called establishment did not acknowledge and consider the set of suggestions which were submitted for its consideration and appropriate action. Then what went wrong?
An exclusive political review of excerpts from an article published in the daily Jang Lahore on 18th and 19th April, 1990 and an analysis of what is happening in Pakistan now and how that can be corrected!
Ashraf Ghani faces many challenges as the newly elected President of Afghanistan, including rebuilding ties with Western allies, addressing widespread corruption, and balancing power between different ethnic and political groups. He must work to strengthen governance and counter the ongoing Taliban insurgency while managing Afghanistan's relationships with other regional powers such as Pakistan. Ghani brings expertise in economics and reconstruction, but stabilizing Afghanistan after decades of conflict will be an immense and difficult task.
The greatest media and advertising challenge of the most powerful human and r...SUN&FZ Associates
It is reminder of a reality that is very well known but, unfortunately, Pakistan and the Pakistanis do not seem to benefit from this reality…Why? Ask the political leaders, the media owners and the voters.
This document contains data and analysis on terrorism in Pakistan from various sources. It includes quantitative data on fatalities from terrorist violence from 2003-2014, sectarian attacks since 2001, drone attacks from 2005-2013, and numbers of internally displaced people and refugees. It also provides the results of a survey of 1036 people on their views and experiences related to terrorism. The survey found high levels of concern about terrorism and its impacts on life, security and community. Respondents identified terrorism, political instability and poverty as the biggest threats to Pakistan.
MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN RAKHINE CRISIS
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/08/deadly-clashes-erupt-myanmar-restive-rakhine-state-170825055848004.html
Deadly clashes erupt in Myanmar's restive Rakhine state
Government says Rohingya rebels and troops killed as group launches attack day after report warns of further unrest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Rakhine_State_riots
2012 Rakhine State riots
The international crisis group 283-myanmar-a-new-muslim-insurgency-in-rakhine...MYO AUNG Myanmar
https://d2071andvip0wj.cloudfront.net/283-myanmar-a-new-muslim-insurgency-in-rakhine-state.pdf
Myanmar: A New Muslim
Insurgency in Rakhine State
Asia Report N°283 | 15 December 2016
Headquarters
International Crisis Group
Avenue Louise 149 • 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32 2 502 90 38 • Fax: +32 2 502 50 38
brussels@crisisgroup.org
Working Group: Reframing a Regional Approach to South Asia: Demilitarization,...Dr. Nyla Ali Khan
Nine scholars of South Asia – Amrita Basu, Shah Mahmud Hanifi, Nyla Ali Khan, David Ludden, Zia Mian, Senzil Nawid, Sahar Shafqat, Kamala Visweswaran, and Chitralekha Zutshi – met at New York University’s Institute of Public Knowledge on March 6, 2009, to discuss the politics of knowledge concerning South Asia as it connects academic and policy work in the US.
https://www.nyu.edu/ipk/files/docs/misc/6152154314a0d91053299c.pdf
Malala mishap and global media scenario in retrospect taliban and pakistanSUN&FZ Associates
Pakistani Talibans had tried to impose their Nizam-e-Adl in Swat and were thrown out of there proving and conveying clearly and forcefully that their kind of Islam was not acceptable and workable in our country. So as Muslims what are we afraid of?
We have a more secular than a secular government. We have a dedicated Secular Media of Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s Secular Pakistan. We have an army ready to fight against any attempt to disturb the way we live in this world and the way we believe in the world after. When the Pakistani Talibans have failed in Swat how can they succeed in other parts of the country where we have law enforcing agencies as well as rangers and army cantonment areas? Do we think that a few isolated barbaric incidents can succeed in terrorizing entire population of Pakistan and make them Taliban Branded Shariah Compliant? Can a country that has a brave teen age girl like Malala who has the courage to defy Taliban and carry on her mission be expected to let so-called Pakistani Taliban impose their “Alien to Islam Shariat in a “RELIGIOUS COUNTRY of TRULY MUSLIMS like Pakistan”?
The consequences of the wrong actions in the right directionSUN&FZ Associates
It is not that those who mattered in corridors of political power were not timely advised to put Pakistan’s derailed political process back on track. It is also not that the so-called establishment did not acknowledge and consider the set of suggestions which were submitted for its consideration and appropriate action. Then what went wrong?
An exclusive political review of excerpts from an article published in the daily Jang Lahore on 18th and 19th April, 1990 and an analysis of what is happening in Pakistan now and how that can be corrected!
Ashraf Ghani faces many challenges as the newly elected President of Afghanistan, including rebuilding ties with Western allies, addressing widespread corruption, and balancing power between different ethnic and political groups. He must work to strengthen governance and counter the ongoing Taliban insurgency while managing Afghanistan's relationships with other regional powers such as Pakistan. Ghani brings expertise in economics and reconstruction, but stabilizing Afghanistan after decades of conflict will be an immense and difficult task.
The greatest media and advertising challenge of the most powerful human and r...SUN&FZ Associates
It is reminder of a reality that is very well known but, unfortunately, Pakistan and the Pakistanis do not seem to benefit from this reality…Why? Ask the political leaders, the media owners and the voters.
This document contains data and analysis on terrorism in Pakistan from various sources. It includes quantitative data on fatalities from terrorist violence from 2003-2014, sectarian attacks since 2001, drone attacks from 2005-2013, and numbers of internally displaced people and refugees. It also provides the results of a survey of 1036 people on their views and experiences related to terrorism. The survey found high levels of concern about terrorism and its impacts on life, security and community. Respondents identified terrorism, political instability and poverty as the biggest threats to Pakistan.
MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN RAKHINE CRISIS
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/08/deadly-clashes-erupt-myanmar-restive-rakhine-state-170825055848004.html
Deadly clashes erupt in Myanmar's restive Rakhine state
Government says Rohingya rebels and troops killed as group launches attack day after report warns of further unrest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Rakhine_State_riots
2012 Rakhine State riots
The international crisis group 283-myanmar-a-new-muslim-insurgency-in-rakhine...MYO AUNG Myanmar
https://d2071andvip0wj.cloudfront.net/283-myanmar-a-new-muslim-insurgency-in-rakhine-state.pdf
Myanmar: A New Muslim
Insurgency in Rakhine State
Asia Report N°283 | 15 December 2016
Headquarters
International Crisis Group
Avenue Louise 149 • 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32 2 502 90 38 • Fax: +32 2 502 50 38
brussels@crisisgroup.org
Working Group: Reframing a Regional Approach to South Asia: Demilitarization,...Dr. Nyla Ali Khan
Nine scholars of South Asia – Amrita Basu, Shah Mahmud Hanifi, Nyla Ali Khan, David Ludden, Zia Mian, Senzil Nawid, Sahar Shafqat, Kamala Visweswaran, and Chitralekha Zutshi – met at New York University’s Institute of Public Knowledge on March 6, 2009, to discuss the politics of knowledge concerning South Asia as it connects academic and policy work in the US.
https://www.nyu.edu/ipk/files/docs/misc/6152154314a0d91053299c.pdf
Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad: Evaluating the gains & gauging the challenges aheadipipk
Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad was launched in 2017 as part of Pakistan's ongoing war on terror to consolidate gains and eliminate remaining terrorist threats. It included both military and civilian strategies. While the military operations achieved successes, the civilian government lagged in implementing its responsibilities. In particular, the National Action Plan aimed at countering extremism was not fully and consistently implemented. Recent government efforts have shown willingness to address shortcomings, but the effectiveness remains to be seen with time.
Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad: Evaluating the grains & gauging the challenges aheadipipk
Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad was launched in 2017 as Pakistan's most comprehensive counterterrorism operation, including both military and civilian components. While the military achieved successes in kinetic operations, the civilian government lagged in implementing its responsibilities. In particular, the National Action Plan (NAP) aimed to guide the operation but still has shortcomings and parts that have been left untouched or given less consideration. Recent government efforts have shown willingness to address gaps in NAP implementation, but sustained action will be needed to fully address extremism challenges in Pakistan.
The document is a research project submitted by a student that examines the potential consequences if Imran Khan becomes Prime Minister of Pakistan. It outlines the research questions, methodology, and objectives. The literature review discusses how Imran Khan's party opposes sending Pakistani troops abroad and argues he should focus on governance in KPK and playing the role of strong opposition leader rather than protests. The hypothesis is that as PM, Imran Khan could resolve issues like corruption and improve Pakistan's international image.
This document discusses defining success in Afghanistan. It argues that success is establishing a stable political order, security situation, and indigenous security forces that can prevent Afghanistan from being a safe haven for terrorists with reduced international support. While progress has been made in security, political progress has been slower. Improvements to Afghan governance through greater local participation are needed. Challenges include corruption, Pakistani sanctuaries for insurgent groups, and the seasonal nature of the conflict means the true test of progress will come in summer 2011. Continued support for the current strategy is recommended.
The document discusses the history and effects of terrorism in Pakistan. It begins with the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, which led to millions of refugees fleeing to Pakistan. After the US invaded Afghanistan in 2001, terrorism increased in Pakistan. Drone strikes by the US have killed thousands of Pakistani civilians and fuelled terrorism. The economy has suffered enormously from the costs of fighting terrorism. Sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shias has also increased. The government is trying to negotiate with terrorist groups but the drone strikes undermine peace efforts. Overall, the document analyzes how terrorism has negatively impacted Pakistan's security, politics, economy and society.
NARENDRA MODI’S AND XI JINPING’S HISTORIC ROLES AMID THREATS AND CHALLENGESKeshav Prasad Bhattarai
Includes- Contradictions in India and China Relations ,India and China: Living with the Common Threats of Terrorism and Joint Responsibility of Modi and Jinping
On initial consideration, the idea of reintegration might seem peripheral to achieving the objectives of a counterinsurgency campaign, and that demanding surrender should be the order of the day, not seeking mutual forgiveness. However, nothing could be further from reality. In countering an insurgency the motives of each fighter and supporter dictate their adversarial actions, and the potential size of the insurgency is theoretically limited only by the population of the country itself. On deeper reflection then, the salience of reintegration rapidly emerges as central to any successful strategy to conclude an insurgency.
An enduring peace among antagonists in an insurgency and a lasting recourse to the sovereignty of the in-power government can only be properly expressed in terms that encompass the reintegration of the host society. In its most holistic form, reintegration encompasses not only fighters who have taken up violent resort to obtain their own ends, but also fragments and factions in society that are disenfranchised, ostracised or otherwise excluded from participating in a country’s social-political construct between its government and the people.
Lasting reintegration is much harder to foster and generate than simply announcing a policy. Personal allegiances, misgivings, fear, and human and institutional frailty all seem arrayed against even attempting reintegration, yet is a valid and indeed fundamental aim in counterinsurgency that must be grasped, like a nettle, with confidence and vigour. Reintegration not only has a role for all actors – police, civil and military – but indeed demands of them a common purpose, and a truly concerted effort to attain it. This paper draws on six months of field work in southern Afghanistan grappling with these challenges.
Convergence of China and the ISIS Caliphate Phill Hynes
A Threat Assessment by ISS Risk on the "Convergence of China's Economic Globalisation Strategy and Encroaching ISIS Aspirations for the Asian Caliphate".
Pakistan has played a key role in supporting the US war on terror by providing military bases and supply routes for over 75% of US and NATO supplies. However, the war has come at a huge cost to Pakistan with over 80,000 civilians and 4,795 soldiers killed and $68 billion in economic losses. In response, Pakistan has undertaken military operations like Zarb-e-Azb in North Waziristan and Karachi operations to crackdown on terrorist groups and over 20,000 terrorists have been killed. Pakistan's future strategy includes strengthening security forces and establishing domestic defense production to better combat terrorism within its borders.
This document discusses the socio-economic costs of terrorism in Pakistan. It summarizes that terrorism has had huge economic costs for Pakistan, estimated at $35-40 billion since 2001. Key costs include reduced investment, lower GDP growth, decline in key industries like agriculture and manufacturing. Agriculture has been especially hard hit in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA, with estimated losses of $35 billion and 55-70% reductions in fruit production in Swat. Manufacturing has seen its lowest share of GDP in 5 years at 18.2% due to instability and uncertainty from terrorism. Overall, economic growth fell to its lowest rate in a decade of 2% in 2008-09 due largely to the impacts of fighting terrorism
Terrorism and political violence in South East AsiaGraeme Cross
While the threat of a terrorist attack is still very real in certain areas of the Asia Pacific, the region has seen several key country risk levels drop or remain low for 2016, according to Aon’s Terrorism and Political Violence Map, created in collaboration with The Risk Advisory Group.
This year Philippines, Thailand and Myanmar all reported a decrease in risk from high to moderate while Australia’s risk level remained low. Terrorism is cited as the main concern in Australia and Thailand and while the political environment in both Philippines and Myanmar has stablished somewhat, civil unrest and political violence are still the principal threats the countries face.
The document discusses the geopolitical competition over Central Asia between major powers like China, Russia, and the United States. It analyzes Central Asia's rich natural resources and strategic location. The author argues that while democracy is unlikely to emerge in the next 25 years due to authoritarian regimes, China will become the most influential foreign power in Central Asia due to growing economic ties and cooperation through organizations like the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Internal conflicts, radicalism, and economic issues are also expected to continue impacting the region.
This document provides an overview of strategic competition in Central Asia and India's stakes in the region. It discusses how India's historical and cultural links to Central Asia have been disrupted. It outlines how major powers like Russia, China, and the US are vying for political influence and economic opportunities in Central Asia. China in particular has invested heavily in infrastructure and pursued closer economic and security ties. The document also notes political uncertainty in Central Asia as aging leaders look to maintain their hold on power without clear succession plans. It argues that India needs a more cogent policy to reengage with the region and benefit from opportunities there.
Terrorism in South Asia: Anatomy and the Root Causesiosrjce
This article examines the phenomenon of terrorism in South Asia. As we know that South Asia has a
long history of Conflicts, terrorism and trans-boarder ethnicity. The developmental challenges faced by most of
countries in South Asia leads to unemployment, Socio-economic marginalization, separatism, ethenic
nationalism and religious extremism. The technological threshold is low despite claims of high technology. Over
40 percent of total population are illiterate. There is human rights abuse, unemployment and uncontrolled
corruption. These and other factors make for a complicated crisis history marked by an assortment of events,
political violence and terrorism. South Asia is the most terror affected area of the world. Each country suffers
varying degree of insurgency and terror. In fact all countries are intertwined as far as terror networking is
concerned. The major conflicts in the region between India and Pakistan keep the resolution of terror problem
elusive. With these threats to political stability and territorial integrity, South Asia remains a region with a high
potential for violence and conflict. Terrorism is a disease which needs to be treated rather than fought. We are
not fighting an enemy but mentally sick and misguided who must be brought on course by looking in to their
grievances and aspirations. In order to find a lasting solution for terrorism in south Asia, it is necessary to find
the basic structure (i.e; Anatomy) and Root causes of terrorism in South Asia, so that the problem can be dealt
more effectively. This article also provides a detailed account regarding these complicated issues
THREATS AND CHALLENGES
TO INDIAS NATIONAL SECURITY
BY BRIG HEMANT MAHAJAN YUDHA SEVA MEDAL
CONVENTIONAL WARS
WMD
MARITIME
NON TRADITIONAL
TERRORISM
CYBER WAR
WATER WARS
INDIAN DIASPORA
ENERGY SECURITY
TRADE WAR,ECONOMIC SUBVERSION
- The document summarizes tensions and cooperation in China-India relations, focusing on security and economic issues. It describes the ongoing border dispute and Chinese incursions as a key security tension, as well as competition over influence in the Indian Ocean. Economically, it notes India's large trade deficit with China and competing needs for energy access. However, leadership changes in both countries in recent years have also created opportunities for increased cooperation on issues like Afghanistan and climate change. While relations have improved, the potential for conflict stemming from these tensions and areas of competition persists.
The article discusses Facebook's Free Basics initiative in India. In an interview, Chris Daniels, Vice President of Facebook's Internet.org project, defends Free Basics, saying it will help connect more people by providing limited free access to basic internet services. However, others have criticized the plan as undermining net neutrality principles by allowing free access to only some pre-approved websites and apps. An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg argues the plan will change the future of the internet for the worse. Critics say the initiative favors Facebook's business interests over consumers.
This document is a thesis submitted by Ali R. Malik for a master's degree in global affairs from New York University. It analyzes the spread of ISIS and its potential expansion into Pakistan. The thesis notes ISIS controls significant territory across 10-12 countries in the Middle East and North Africa. While Pakistan is currently absent from maps of ISIS influence, the document argues factors like radical madrassas and historical issues with security forces make Pakistan vulnerable to an ISIS invasion or expansion.
Improving U.S.-Pakistan Relations: A Primer for the Trump Administrationcommandeleven
This document analyzes recommendations in a report for the Trump administration on improving US-Pakistan relations. It summarizes that the report aims to pressure Pakistan by threatening to brand it as a state sponsor of terrorism, isolate it diplomatically, hold its military responsible for attacks on India, portray it as anti-US and against US/NATO forces in Afghanistan, and depict it as a rogue nuclear state. The document argues these views are outdated and do not reflect Pakistan's efforts against extremism over the past decade through military operations that have dismantled terrorist groups and brought peace to many areas.
Electronic media's performance in pakistan and geo network as stand alone rol...SUN&FZ Associates
What we see missing in Pakistan’s electronic media is the visibility of credible owners, professional department heads and their bosses with the exception of less than the fingers of two hands. They may decide on their own to which group they belong: less than the fingers of the two hands or rest of the unworthy crowd.
Este documento descreve a bacia hidrográfica do Rio Coreaú no Ceará, Brasil. A bacia está localizada no noroeste do estado e é drenada pelo Rio Coreaú e seus afluentes. O documento fornece detalhes sobre as características físicas, vegetação, recursos hídricos e uso da terra na bacia.
America, the great game and the greater middle east an undiscussed perspect...SUN&FZ Associates
This document discusses America's global strategic vision and policies toward the Middle East and Central Asia following major geopolitical events like the Yom Kippur War, Iranian Revolution, and Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. It analyzes Carter's three strategic options in the region, the proliferation of media groups, and questions America's missed opportunities to cement its global leadership. The document argues America's policies widened divisions within states and societies in the Muslim world and failed to address issues of identity, religion and governance, undermining US strategic goals.
Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad: Evaluating the gains & gauging the challenges aheadipipk
Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad was launched in 2017 as part of Pakistan's ongoing war on terror to consolidate gains and eliminate remaining terrorist threats. It included both military and civilian strategies. While the military operations achieved successes, the civilian government lagged in implementing its responsibilities. In particular, the National Action Plan aimed at countering extremism was not fully and consistently implemented. Recent government efforts have shown willingness to address shortcomings, but the effectiveness remains to be seen with time.
Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad: Evaluating the grains & gauging the challenges aheadipipk
Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad was launched in 2017 as Pakistan's most comprehensive counterterrorism operation, including both military and civilian components. While the military achieved successes in kinetic operations, the civilian government lagged in implementing its responsibilities. In particular, the National Action Plan (NAP) aimed to guide the operation but still has shortcomings and parts that have been left untouched or given less consideration. Recent government efforts have shown willingness to address gaps in NAP implementation, but sustained action will be needed to fully address extremism challenges in Pakistan.
The document is a research project submitted by a student that examines the potential consequences if Imran Khan becomes Prime Minister of Pakistan. It outlines the research questions, methodology, and objectives. The literature review discusses how Imran Khan's party opposes sending Pakistani troops abroad and argues he should focus on governance in KPK and playing the role of strong opposition leader rather than protests. The hypothesis is that as PM, Imran Khan could resolve issues like corruption and improve Pakistan's international image.
This document discusses defining success in Afghanistan. It argues that success is establishing a stable political order, security situation, and indigenous security forces that can prevent Afghanistan from being a safe haven for terrorists with reduced international support. While progress has been made in security, political progress has been slower. Improvements to Afghan governance through greater local participation are needed. Challenges include corruption, Pakistani sanctuaries for insurgent groups, and the seasonal nature of the conflict means the true test of progress will come in summer 2011. Continued support for the current strategy is recommended.
The document discusses the history and effects of terrorism in Pakistan. It begins with the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, which led to millions of refugees fleeing to Pakistan. After the US invaded Afghanistan in 2001, terrorism increased in Pakistan. Drone strikes by the US have killed thousands of Pakistani civilians and fuelled terrorism. The economy has suffered enormously from the costs of fighting terrorism. Sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shias has also increased. The government is trying to negotiate with terrorist groups but the drone strikes undermine peace efforts. Overall, the document analyzes how terrorism has negatively impacted Pakistan's security, politics, economy and society.
NARENDRA MODI’S AND XI JINPING’S HISTORIC ROLES AMID THREATS AND CHALLENGESKeshav Prasad Bhattarai
Includes- Contradictions in India and China Relations ,India and China: Living with the Common Threats of Terrorism and Joint Responsibility of Modi and Jinping
On initial consideration, the idea of reintegration might seem peripheral to achieving the objectives of a counterinsurgency campaign, and that demanding surrender should be the order of the day, not seeking mutual forgiveness. However, nothing could be further from reality. In countering an insurgency the motives of each fighter and supporter dictate their adversarial actions, and the potential size of the insurgency is theoretically limited only by the population of the country itself. On deeper reflection then, the salience of reintegration rapidly emerges as central to any successful strategy to conclude an insurgency.
An enduring peace among antagonists in an insurgency and a lasting recourse to the sovereignty of the in-power government can only be properly expressed in terms that encompass the reintegration of the host society. In its most holistic form, reintegration encompasses not only fighters who have taken up violent resort to obtain their own ends, but also fragments and factions in society that are disenfranchised, ostracised or otherwise excluded from participating in a country’s social-political construct between its government and the people.
Lasting reintegration is much harder to foster and generate than simply announcing a policy. Personal allegiances, misgivings, fear, and human and institutional frailty all seem arrayed against even attempting reintegration, yet is a valid and indeed fundamental aim in counterinsurgency that must be grasped, like a nettle, with confidence and vigour. Reintegration not only has a role for all actors – police, civil and military – but indeed demands of them a common purpose, and a truly concerted effort to attain it. This paper draws on six months of field work in southern Afghanistan grappling with these challenges.
Convergence of China and the ISIS Caliphate Phill Hynes
A Threat Assessment by ISS Risk on the "Convergence of China's Economic Globalisation Strategy and Encroaching ISIS Aspirations for the Asian Caliphate".
Pakistan has played a key role in supporting the US war on terror by providing military bases and supply routes for over 75% of US and NATO supplies. However, the war has come at a huge cost to Pakistan with over 80,000 civilians and 4,795 soldiers killed and $68 billion in economic losses. In response, Pakistan has undertaken military operations like Zarb-e-Azb in North Waziristan and Karachi operations to crackdown on terrorist groups and over 20,000 terrorists have been killed. Pakistan's future strategy includes strengthening security forces and establishing domestic defense production to better combat terrorism within its borders.
This document discusses the socio-economic costs of terrorism in Pakistan. It summarizes that terrorism has had huge economic costs for Pakistan, estimated at $35-40 billion since 2001. Key costs include reduced investment, lower GDP growth, decline in key industries like agriculture and manufacturing. Agriculture has been especially hard hit in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA, with estimated losses of $35 billion and 55-70% reductions in fruit production in Swat. Manufacturing has seen its lowest share of GDP in 5 years at 18.2% due to instability and uncertainty from terrorism. Overall, economic growth fell to its lowest rate in a decade of 2% in 2008-09 due largely to the impacts of fighting terrorism
Terrorism and political violence in South East AsiaGraeme Cross
While the threat of a terrorist attack is still very real in certain areas of the Asia Pacific, the region has seen several key country risk levels drop or remain low for 2016, according to Aon’s Terrorism and Political Violence Map, created in collaboration with The Risk Advisory Group.
This year Philippines, Thailand and Myanmar all reported a decrease in risk from high to moderate while Australia’s risk level remained low. Terrorism is cited as the main concern in Australia and Thailand and while the political environment in both Philippines and Myanmar has stablished somewhat, civil unrest and political violence are still the principal threats the countries face.
The document discusses the geopolitical competition over Central Asia between major powers like China, Russia, and the United States. It analyzes Central Asia's rich natural resources and strategic location. The author argues that while democracy is unlikely to emerge in the next 25 years due to authoritarian regimes, China will become the most influential foreign power in Central Asia due to growing economic ties and cooperation through organizations like the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Internal conflicts, radicalism, and economic issues are also expected to continue impacting the region.
This document provides an overview of strategic competition in Central Asia and India's stakes in the region. It discusses how India's historical and cultural links to Central Asia have been disrupted. It outlines how major powers like Russia, China, and the US are vying for political influence and economic opportunities in Central Asia. China in particular has invested heavily in infrastructure and pursued closer economic and security ties. The document also notes political uncertainty in Central Asia as aging leaders look to maintain their hold on power without clear succession plans. It argues that India needs a more cogent policy to reengage with the region and benefit from opportunities there.
Terrorism in South Asia: Anatomy and the Root Causesiosrjce
This article examines the phenomenon of terrorism in South Asia. As we know that South Asia has a
long history of Conflicts, terrorism and trans-boarder ethnicity. The developmental challenges faced by most of
countries in South Asia leads to unemployment, Socio-economic marginalization, separatism, ethenic
nationalism and religious extremism. The technological threshold is low despite claims of high technology. Over
40 percent of total population are illiterate. There is human rights abuse, unemployment and uncontrolled
corruption. These and other factors make for a complicated crisis history marked by an assortment of events,
political violence and terrorism. South Asia is the most terror affected area of the world. Each country suffers
varying degree of insurgency and terror. In fact all countries are intertwined as far as terror networking is
concerned. The major conflicts in the region between India and Pakistan keep the resolution of terror problem
elusive. With these threats to political stability and territorial integrity, South Asia remains a region with a high
potential for violence and conflict. Terrorism is a disease which needs to be treated rather than fought. We are
not fighting an enemy but mentally sick and misguided who must be brought on course by looking in to their
grievances and aspirations. In order to find a lasting solution for terrorism in south Asia, it is necessary to find
the basic structure (i.e; Anatomy) and Root causes of terrorism in South Asia, so that the problem can be dealt
more effectively. This article also provides a detailed account regarding these complicated issues
THREATS AND CHALLENGES
TO INDIAS NATIONAL SECURITY
BY BRIG HEMANT MAHAJAN YUDHA SEVA MEDAL
CONVENTIONAL WARS
WMD
MARITIME
NON TRADITIONAL
TERRORISM
CYBER WAR
WATER WARS
INDIAN DIASPORA
ENERGY SECURITY
TRADE WAR,ECONOMIC SUBVERSION
- The document summarizes tensions and cooperation in China-India relations, focusing on security and economic issues. It describes the ongoing border dispute and Chinese incursions as a key security tension, as well as competition over influence in the Indian Ocean. Economically, it notes India's large trade deficit with China and competing needs for energy access. However, leadership changes in both countries in recent years have also created opportunities for increased cooperation on issues like Afghanistan and climate change. While relations have improved, the potential for conflict stemming from these tensions and areas of competition persists.
The article discusses Facebook's Free Basics initiative in India. In an interview, Chris Daniels, Vice President of Facebook's Internet.org project, defends Free Basics, saying it will help connect more people by providing limited free access to basic internet services. However, others have criticized the plan as undermining net neutrality principles by allowing free access to only some pre-approved websites and apps. An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg argues the plan will change the future of the internet for the worse. Critics say the initiative favors Facebook's business interests over consumers.
This document is a thesis submitted by Ali R. Malik for a master's degree in global affairs from New York University. It analyzes the spread of ISIS and its potential expansion into Pakistan. The thesis notes ISIS controls significant territory across 10-12 countries in the Middle East and North Africa. While Pakistan is currently absent from maps of ISIS influence, the document argues factors like radical madrassas and historical issues with security forces make Pakistan vulnerable to an ISIS invasion or expansion.
Improving U.S.-Pakistan Relations: A Primer for the Trump Administrationcommandeleven
This document analyzes recommendations in a report for the Trump administration on improving US-Pakistan relations. It summarizes that the report aims to pressure Pakistan by threatening to brand it as a state sponsor of terrorism, isolate it diplomatically, hold its military responsible for attacks on India, portray it as anti-US and against US/NATO forces in Afghanistan, and depict it as a rogue nuclear state. The document argues these views are outdated and do not reflect Pakistan's efforts against extremism over the past decade through military operations that have dismantled terrorist groups and brought peace to many areas.
Electronic media's performance in pakistan and geo network as stand alone rol...SUN&FZ Associates
What we see missing in Pakistan’s electronic media is the visibility of credible owners, professional department heads and their bosses with the exception of less than the fingers of two hands. They may decide on their own to which group they belong: less than the fingers of the two hands or rest of the unworthy crowd.
Este documento descreve a bacia hidrográfica do Rio Coreaú no Ceará, Brasil. A bacia está localizada no noroeste do estado e é drenada pelo Rio Coreaú e seus afluentes. O documento fornece detalhes sobre as características físicas, vegetação, recursos hídricos e uso da terra na bacia.
America, the great game and the greater middle east an undiscussed perspect...SUN&FZ Associates
This document discusses America's global strategic vision and policies toward the Middle East and Central Asia following major geopolitical events like the Yom Kippur War, Iranian Revolution, and Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. It analyzes Carter's three strategic options in the region, the proliferation of media groups, and questions America's missed opportunities to cement its global leadership. The document argues America's policies widened divisions within states and societies in the Muslim world and failed to address issues of identity, religion and governance, undermining US strategic goals.
This document discusses four articles published between 1974-2013 analyzing geopolitical events in the Muslim world. The key events discussed include the Soviet Union's intervention in Afghanistan in the 1970s-80s and the political instability seen in Iran and Pakistan at that time. The overall conclusion of the articles is that without an "unthinkable miracle", the independent Muslim world will end due to ongoing unrest and uncertainty in the region. The document aims to share these analyses with connections and friends.
- Ontario and Spain have differing histories of early childhood education, with Ontario establishing kindergartens earlier and having more recent developments toward universal child care [1]
- Their underlying philosophies are now similar, focusing on play, family involvement, and individual child development through activities and socialization [2]
- Both provide public and private child care options, but Ontario aims to be more accessible and affordable for all families while Spain has more limited subsidized spots [3]
Where did geo, media, pemra and the government go wrongSUN&FZ Associates
The matter has become more serious to not single out only channels of GTN but make it compulsory for all television networks and their channels to make sure that no producer, host, anchor, actor, actress or participant in any program intentionally or unintentionally ridicules the constitution of the country and violates the PEMRA’s Code of Conduct in any way.
For that to happen it is proposed to convene a conference of media owners and PEMRA officials to resolve the disputes, settle the issues and make a pledge not to air contempt for religion and religious groups and show disrespect for Islam, country’s armed forces and sensitive institutions.
Why global good governance has become a labor of sisyphus part 1SUN&FZ Associates
The document discusses challenges facing global governance, including a crisis of political and corporate leadership, rising costs of living outpacing economic growth, and a widening wealth gap. It argues that national priorities are not properly aligned with global priorities due to a lack of a global contextual education system. Such a system is needed to help citizens understand their role in an interconnected world and rise above national, religious, and ethnic divisions. The document also criticizes economic models for failing to consider factors like regulatory failures, uncontrolled profit increases, and unequal wage growth that contribute to rising inequality.
Abc of life.. five laws of nature and seven divine rules! ss vSUN&FZ Associates
Nothing in human history has so far happened without a known and unknown reason, human reaction and beneficial or harmful and constructive or destructive consequences on the path of evolution. The process of evolution, triggered by observation, leads to experimentation and results in either invention or innovation for progress and prosperity or death and destruction
Interestingly, nothing in human lives like in day-to-day performance of nature is happening out of a well-defined and fixed time-frame. Like nature, human life is also divided into a daily 24-hour cycle of temporary life and death leading to its ultimate unpredictable end called permanent death which is so far uncontrollable.
The document summarizes Professor Campbell's presentation on effortless change in students and faculty through education. Some key points:
1) Campbell argues that internal changes like shifts in attitude, thoughts and expectations are necessary precursors to external changes. By changing how we think, our circumstances can change effortlessly.
2) For students, developing self-discipline, time management and a positive self-image are important for success. Faculty must focus on imparting instruction, building interest through examples, and personalizing their classroom approach.
3) Both students and faculty experience transformations when they renew their minds and approaches to teaching/learning. Good teaching involves customizing one's approach to individual student needs through open communication and a supportive
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Contents for interconnected platforms in a hyper-connected world need to be carefully tailored to create synergy between delivery and receiving ends.
Focus on contents instead of the carriers is need of the time.
Pakistan, a leaderless leader in economic growth potential among emerging mar...SUN&FZ Associates
When those who are given the mandate to govern, make the country ungovernable then the only way out for the civil society is to lead the way to show the leaders that those who are mislead can lead too when the time comes. It is far more important to self-govern than handing over the right to govern to those who cannot see beyond their nose.
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Pakistan - Mapping the Policy Agenda 2018-2023ipipk
This Islamabad Policy Institute initiative aims to independently reect upon key policy issues in order to generate fresh ideas that Pakistan's policy makers, legislators, jurists, executive branches of the government as well as scholars and media can consider and debate. is initiative aims to add intellectual value to the public policy making process by offering new, informed and timely policy perspectives to the new national leadership and administration, which has been elected after the 2018 national and provincial elections.
This document discusses a research thesis analyzing the relationship between social and economic development in Pakistan at the district level. It provides background on the concepts of social and economic development. The study uses data from Pakistan's Household Income and Expenditure Survey to examine relationships between economic ranks, literacy rates, and enrollment rates as indicators of development across districts in Punjab, Sindh, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces. Descriptive analysis and correlation techniques are employed to analyze the data and relationships between social and economic development indicators.
This document discusses a research thesis analyzing the relationship between social and economic development in Pakistan at the district level. It provides background on the concepts of social and economic development. The thesis uses data from Pakistan's Household Income and Expenditure Survey to examine relationships between economic ranks, literacy rates, and enrollment rates as indicators of social and economic development. It describes the methodology, results for different provinces, and graphical representations of the findings. The conclusion discusses that social and economic development is needed in Pakistan to improve standards of living through education, incomes, skills, and employment.
The CIPD is the professional body for HR and people development. The not-for-profit organisation champions better work and working lives and has been setting the benchmark for excellence in people and organisation development for more than 100 years. It has 140,000 members across the world, provides thought leadership through independent research on the world of work, and offers professional training and accreditation for those working in HR and learning and development.
There is no simple way to solving the African youth question. This book seeks to make a simple but no ordinary call on all stakeholders to take steps and help solve the youth question across the continent. This is a call, which does not require guns and machetes, but intellectual and moral weapons without which lasting results can never be secured. One other important issue worth mentioning, if even in passing, is the slur of ghettoes. Ghettoes have been known to provide safe havens for criminals and traps for the vulnerable youth especially the homeless, poverty stricken and those from hot spots. Ghettoes do not only provide fertile grounds for criminals, they also provide them with the opportunity to recruit vulnerable youth to their fold. There is no doubt that, policies have no legs to walk on into reality. The traditional track for their movement into reality is through programmes deliberately designed and religiously adhered to. On the other hand, institutions implement programmes. Thus the stronger, effective and resourceful an institution is, the better the programmes are implemented and consequently the effectiveness of the policy in the lives of the intended target. The media, with its reach, the ability to set agenda, and its 'god' status in the eyes of society should attempt to educate the youth on family values to the society. Debates could be generated on the essence of the family unit among others to psyche society up by highlighting the inherent beauty of the family system. The time has come for chieftaincy institution, to reassert its traditional duties to the youth and society. This is a call for grassroot education where chiefs and sub-chiefs would engage their societies in meaningful 'Nim-tree' and Baobab-tree discussions to establish codes and reinstate the position of the family in the society and more importantly to the youth. Two critical programmes, which could provide substantive and long-term opportunities to the youth, should centre on Incubation Centres and National Employment Programme. Traditionally, incubation centres give office space and technical advice in the early years of start-ups with the capacity, by design, to support any area of entrepreneurial direction government policies indicates. The high level of expertise required to successfully manage a business, coupled with the cost of rent, makes it necessary for the government, either singularly or in partnership, to support the culture of the business incubation centres. These incubation centres should be established with the core goal of providing the necessary technical support and protection for young entrepreneurs during the critical early stages of their businesses. As a matter of national priority, African leaders need to build and empower youth entrepreneurs. The issue of job centres with an online option would enhance the job search and security of the youth. That is to say, the government should establish job centres on campuses....
This document provides an introduction to the book "Global Pakistan: Pakistan's Role in the International System". It makes three main points:
1. Pakistan's economy is integrated into the global market and is influenced by international economic forces like commodity prices, currency values, and trade rules that it cannot control.
2. Pakistan faces serious environmental challenges from global issues like climate change and plastic pollution that impact the country despite its small contribution to causing them. Higher temperatures and more extreme weather will threaten lives and livelihoods.
3. Cultural globalization is increasing the spread of Western cultural products, while Pakistani culture has less global influence. This imbalanced cultural exchange is driven by the market power of large Western corporations.
13 Economic Priorities For FY13-14 - MSLGROUP IndiaAshraf Engineer
Put together over a period of two months, the report looks at how issues like internal security, the lack of security for women, our callous approach towards sports, etc, impact the economy. The effort is to discuss the impact of issues that most people don't normally associate with the economy.
This document summarizes the findings of a survey conducted in Pakistan to gauge public perceptions about key economic reforms, particularly in taxation and energy sectors. The survey found:
1) There is a lack of understanding among the public about the importance of taxes for funding infrastructure, social services, and addressing issues like energy shortages.
2) Most respondents viewed Pakistan's taxation system as unfair and non-transparent, and did not think their taxes were being effectively utilized.
3) Pakistan has one of the lowest tax-to-GDP ratios in the world, with a very narrow tax base that fails to tax many sectors of the economy including agriculture and some services.
4) Around 42% of respondents agreed
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Bringing Prosperity to Life. The Legatum Prosperity Index™ 2016
Methodology Report. Brief Introduction to the
Prosperity Index
The Legatum Institute is an international thinktank
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individuals with the opportunity to discover, fulfil,
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driven through the mutually reinforcing relationships
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this view. It is a framework that assesses countries
on the promotion of their citizens’ flourishing, reflecting
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the Index, covering 149 countries, a unique global
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Effective states & engaged societies the nature of statal policy and instit...Costy Costantinos
This document discusses the concept of the developmental state and examines whether Ethiopia can establish one. It begins by defining the developmental state and exploring the ideological forces behind developmental dirigism. It then examines the rise and fall of developmental states in Japan and East Asia. It analyzes challenges facing African developmental states, including analytical disconnects, issues of good practices and wrong lessons, government and market failures, and neo-patrimonialism. The document considers Ethiopia's massive resources and argues it can finance infrastructure if leadership commits to industrialization and high-income opportunities. It concludes by recommending Ethiopia avoid pitfalls, enhance the state's role in transformation, de-link the state from rent-seekers, and nurt
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This document discusses the need for Asian countries to reform their pension and provident fund systems to address upcoming demographic challenges from population aging. It presents two case studies from Australia and India that demonstrate how information technology and outsourcing can help pension funds improve efficiency, transparency and governance as the population ages and reforms are needed. The case studies highlight trends relevant for pension fund industries across Asia and the world.
The document is a speech given by Dr. Kayode Fayemi, the Governor of Ekiti State in Nigeria, at The Future Awards Symposium for Young and Emerging Leaders in 2012. In the speech, he discusses three main points:
1) The importance of grooming a successor generation of leaders through formal education, training, and mentorship in order to ensure sustained development through a planned political succession process.
2) The need for leadership to be values-driven by motivating citizens to solve community problems rather than reinforcing state control, and rebuilding public and private institutions.
3) The challenge for political leaders to reconnect democratic choices with people's daily lives
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The document summarizes the replacement of India's Planning Commission with a new think tank called the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog). The key points are:
- NITI Aayog will serve as a policy think tank and provide strategic policy vision and support to the central and state governments.
- It aims to foster cooperative federalism through mechanisms supporting states and crafting development plans from the village level up.
- The institution will work to develop long-term policy frameworks, monitor progress, encourage partnerships, and focus on issues like poverty elimination, inclusion, and sustainable development.
- NITI Aayog will be headed by the Prime Minister and include state Chief Ministers,
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This document outlines Pakistan's Vision 2025, which aims to provide clarity on Pakistan's long-term aspirations and guide its development policies. It discusses key economic, social, physical, and environmental trends affecting Pakistan and provides recommendations in areas such as investing in human capital, improving governance, boosting investment, increasing tax revenue, and ensuring political stability and continuity of policies. The document emphasizes the need for inclusive growth, investment in infrastructure and priority sectors, regional connectivity, and sustainable resource management to achieve Pakistan's vision.
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This document discusses the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, which involves $62 billion in Chinese investment in Pakistan. It presents both the opportunities and challenges of CPEC. The opportunities include economic development, job creation, stabilization and improved security. However, challenges include the need for strong Pakistani governance and political stability for CPEC to succeed, as well as potential distrust between Pakistan and China that could impact Pakistan's economy. Security threats from groups seeking to destabilize the project are also a concern.
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Why Islamic Common Market if not an Islamic Union is necessarySUN&FZ Associates
It is challenging but not impossible!
Economic Power of any country is its real power in today’s world. Every other tangible and intangible element of national power without substantive economic power is worthless in international relations and global power politics.
Expertise in commercial diplomacy is an essential pre-requisite to configure a country’s tangible and intangible elements of national power. This is exactly what the rulers of the emerging economies have done to break the barriers of demographic constraints and to get out of the debt trap.
The world’s richest natural resource and human talent market with close to more than two billion potential consumers is a reasonably promising consumer community to start thinking of and working on!
This document summarizes several social and economic problems facing Pakistan, their causes, and why they persist. The key problems discussed are: unimpressive growth rate due to lack of vision and reliable data; non-productive expenses like large bureaucracies and military spending; trade and budget deficits due to unchecked imports and luxurious government spending; inflation fueled by loan defaults and black market money; power shortages partially due to organized corruption; depleting gas reserves and increasing oil costs despite potential reserves; underinvestment due to issues like corruption and security concerns; and widespread tax evasion. The overarching point made is that the groups responsible for creating these problems through corruption and mismanagement are also the ones with the power to solve
Three curable symptoms of an ailing global economy and their treatmentSUN&FZ Associates
It goes without saying that poverty and inequality beyond rationally acceptable limit are caused by wrong economic, monetary and fiscal policies; legislative, legal and regulatory flaws; and imbalance between pro-business and pro-people and pro-employer and pro-employee policies.
The transfer of money through channels other than strictly regulated and monitored companies cannot be ruled out but that money’s unchecked investment in bonds, shares, properties and business companies clearly and convincingly points out that the countries and their governments at both ends are intentional accomplices of white collar crimes for a number of understandable but inexcusable reasons.
Is it possible that those who are responsible to monitor the inter-state flow of money don’t know from which countries money is transferred to their countries? Who in regulatory, banking and financial circles doesn’t know whose money is parked in which tax haven for how long? Who doesn’t know who manages the illegally transferred funds on whose behalf? Why do the tax havens hide the information?
Why these questions have not been answered so far?
Who is responsible?
What can be done about it?
The Answers follow…
The most frightening and totally ignored political reality is that a group of provincial leaders is independently running the federal government and the provinces without any sign of an Integrated Provincial and National Vision and Plan of Action.
A provincially, administratively and politically weak and handicapped central government and on-their-own provincial governments do not seem to have the much needed will and the resources to forcefully eliminate the political and corporate crime mafias now evidently hiding behind unquestionably fake war against terror which is the biggest global political, diplomatic and military fraud of the past and present century. Pakistan’s problem is not war against terrorism. Pakistan’s problem is now identified criminal political and alleged corporate mafias who are plundering and hollowing Pakistan by hiding and acting from behind the mask of war against terror, the failure of law enforcement agencies to unmask them and recruitment of armed gangs of criminals by a number of, not all, politicians and corporate tycoons as security guards.
THE BOTTOM LINE IS: Stop using the term TERRORISTS and start chasing the CRIMINALS!
What Do The Television Network Owners Look At?
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Re-Inventing Print Media Management: Country Model - PakistanSUN&FZ Associates
The document discusses strategies for developing a national newspaper in Pakistan through unique content, formats, and marketing. It proposes forming research, content, format, and marketing teams to comprehensively study readers, develop tailored content for local and national audiences, and test marketing plans. The goal is to prepare country-wide circulation milestones and financial plans to make the newspaper nationally competitive through a differentiated approach.
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The document discusses several interconnected topics:
1. Pakistan is the first and last frontier in the war on terror in Muslim countries and has an important but unfulfilled role.
2. The global system of governance has failed to keep up with rapid globalization, fueling unrest between the rich and poor as well as terrorism.
3. The media plays a role in misrepresenting these issues and focusing on symptoms rather than addressing failures of governance.
THE PUROPSE
The purpose of this paper presentation is to:
Re-define education
Describe how it applies to system of governance and its four core delivery targets and
What needs to be done for aligning education system with the delivery targets
How to re-invent education system
The action of the video producer was wrong, the nature of reaction of on the streets mobs was worse and Obama’s speech on regrettable action and disgustingly inhuman reaction respectively was the worst. Obama tried to establish that American media and the world they live in have the freedom to malign and hurt more than one billion people if the two freedoms are wrapped in constitutionally protected “freedom of speech.” He accepts that the act was wrong but stubbornly insists that the perpetrators will continue doing it because First Amendment allows that. A speech does not only reflect how a person views a particular situation, its causes and consequences, it showcases his personality too. Obama’s full of contradictions speech in United Nations did not disappoint Muslims; it was utterly disgusting for people who, irrespective of their respective faiths, have a sense of justice across the globe.
The world leaders and media owners need to understand that the freedom of expression does not mean the freedom to malign personalities who deserve to be respected irrespective of their religion, nationality, color and creed. We, people of the world, ought to keep in mind that we are members of a single global family. Once, we convince ourselves to admit that we are “Members of a Single Family” created by the Only Creator through Adam and Eve, no matter where on earth we live, no matter what is the color of our skin, no matter which language we speak, no matter which religious faith or the ideology we follow, only then we will realize how difficult it is to hate or hurt a member of our own family. No constitution any where in the world and the statute of the United Nations allow any government, individual and institution including the print and electronic media to hurt the religious sentiments of citizens of any country, minorities and any community.
Why another oil shock wave will lead to economic doomsday?SUN&FZ Associates
The world had survived the first Oil Embargo ShockWave. It has survived the second Oil Price ShockWave. Will it be able to absorb the third? I don’t think so. The first ShockWave was unexpected. The second was engineered. And… the third will be well planned, far more precise, smooth and flawless.
The document discusses why democracy has become a conceptual illusion. It argues that democracy has been redefined as "a government of the one percent, by the one percent, for the one percent" as 85% of the world's wealth is controlled by the top 10% and 40% by the top 1%. This extreme inequality is seen as the result of "cycles of artificial affluence and inescapable circles of endless deprivation" engineered by politicians, democracy, and bureaucracy to benefit the one in a million at the cost of the remaining 999,999. The document criticizes focusing on illiteracy and resource constraints to explain social issues, arguing that policy decisions made by educated elites are intentionally widening inequality between the wealthy
Pakistan’s independence day message to government and people of pakistanSUN&FZ Associates
The document discusses issues facing Pakistan, including careless rulers who are protected by constitutional immunity, self-serving public servants, and socially irresponsible corporate conglomerates. Key articles in the constitution, such as 248 and 99, are criticized for making the government unaccountable and encouraging corruption. This has hurt Pakistan's sovereignty and economic development, increased poverty and debt levels, and weakened law enforcement. The roots of these issues can be traced back to the country's founding and various martial law regimes over the decades.
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The document discusses civil society and its role in Pakistan. It argues that most civil society leaders promoted by the media are sponsored by international donors and do not genuinely represent people. It says Pakistan lacks true civil society leaders who work independently to serve people. The document also analyzes Pakistan's national activity map consisting of social, political, economic, diplomatic and military territories. It argues leadership failures in these territories have led to social unrest in the country.
We mix up national / international politics, religion and the ongoing Great Game in and around Pakistan and across the globe. It is a common fashion to blame Zia-ul-Haq, Religion and Maulvis for everything from Russian invasion and defeat in Afghanistan to 9/11 and from acts of terrorism across the globe to target killing in different parts of the country. In Pakistan all the public movements demanding a change were very smartly hijacked by invisible manipulators. In different circumstances Bhutto, Zia-ul-Haque and Pervez Musharraf were used as popular political, religious and moderate TOOLS by INVISIBLE STRATEGIC PLANNERS who INDIRECTLY rule the country through the elected and unelected rulers as their FRONTMEN. When these front men create a mess a new front man comes forward with an agenda reflecting most popular demand of the day. Is it necessary to throw out a government to bring change? How many governments have we already thrown out and where do we stand? What is the guarantee that the results after getting rid of this government will not be the same?
The document provides a critical analysis of the state of electronic media in Pakistan. It summarizes that the media focuses on concept piracy from India, overexposure of unworthy politicians and retired officials, and cheap comedy shows. It also highlights issues with many anchors, journalists, and so-called experts and intellectuals who are not genuinely knowledgeable and promote a distorted view of reality. The document raises concerns that the media is unintentionally or intentionally fueling the destabilization and potential disintegration of Pakistan.
The document summarizes Benazir Bhutto's visits to the USA and Iran in 1995 as Prime Minister of Pakistan. It discusses Pakistan's geopolitical situation and relationships with other countries. The key points are:
1) Bhutto visited the USA and Iran to discuss important issues for Pakistan like Kashmir and Afghanistan, but experts believed the USA would prioritize its relationship with India over Pakistan.
2) Bhutto's visit to Iran had the wrong agenda of trying to improve US-Iran relations instead of focusing on Muslim unity against foreign interference.
3) Muslim countries need to prioritize unity over pursuing relationships with non-Muslim powers that historically have exploited and undermined them.
In our national language Urdu, the government is called “HAKOOMAT.” As such the people who run the government are known as “HUKMARAN” or rulers. Who is Hukmran? Hukmaran is one whose “HUKM” or “ORDER” is carried out. When we try to go deep into the meaning of the words “hakoomat” and “hukmaran,” we find another word in between and that is “HIKMAT” or “WISDOM.” A “hukm” or “order” that lacks “hikmat” or “wisdom” leads to chaos, confrontation and even tyranny. So what does a politician need to become a successful “hukmaran” and run the “hakoomat” successfully is “hikmat” or “wisdom?” But mere hikmat or wisdom alone is not enough. What one requires in addition to that is “HALQA,” or a “CIRCLE” of “like minded people” that may also be called a “TEAM.” The “halqa” or the “team” is actually “THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE” of a political party and “THE CABINET” of a party in power.
Ever accelerating pace of globalization has opened a window of opportunity for innovative entrepreneurs to jump from spring board of their locally retained markets into promise lands of globally acclaimed high ranking business heavens. The other name of these business heavens is Emerging Markets. It is now a known fact that the growth advantage in emerging markets, if other things remain the same, is expected to translate into 62% of global growth. Multinationals expect about 70 percent of the world’s growth over the next few years to come from emerging markets, with 40 percent emanating from just two countries: China and India. In addition to growth rate advantage, expanding middle-class consumer base, impressive Doing Business regulatory reforms, more than half of $55 billion of global middle-class spending will come from Asia Pacific.
The ground realities demand caution in weighing the perceptions.
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Pakistan, a leaderless leader in economic growth potential among emerging markets paper
1. ZHK
2013
Pakistan, a leaderless leader in economic growth
potential among Emerging Markets…
Pakistan’s Image and Repositioning Pakistan
When those who are given the mandate to govern, make the country ungovernable then
the only way out for the civil society is to lead the way to show the leaders that those who
are mislead can lead too when the time comes. It is far more important to self-govern
than handing over the right to govern to those who cannot see beyond their nose.
Pakistan’s only hope is the country’s youth. Ironically, youth is allowed to work and vote
for political parties but they are not allowed to form student societies and unions in
colleges and universities. The college and university students exit the educational
institutions and enter into a bigger university of practical life. Whatever they learn helps
them in laying the foundation of their personal career and family life around that. Politics
is very much a part of their lives too. In the past, when student unions were not banned in
colleges and universities, the students played an important role in country’s politics too.
How they do that in advanced countries is a very important subject for research.
Zahid Hussain Khalid
ICMR 2013 International Conference on Emerging Markets,
Superior University, Lahore, Pakistan
ZHK 2013
2. POSITIONING PAKISTAN
NATIONAL IMAGE
Introduction: Questioning Pakistan’s Economic Growth Potential………………………………………………….……..………03
Pakistan’s Real Economic Growth Potential…………………………………………………………………………………………………..….04
Global Perspective: Future Work Skills and Six Drivers of Change……………………………………………………………………………………………………….……..05
Seven Key Corporate Challenges and Actions……..……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..06
Global State of Talent………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….07
The Value Chain of Talent……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………07
A Major Concern: Employability………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….08
Contextual Aspects of Governance, Capacity Levels and Evaluation………………………………………………………………….09
Positioning Pakistan on the World Economic Map of the Rapid Growth Economies………………………………………….10
How is Pakistan looked at?.........................................................................................................................................................................10
The Causes and Consequences of the Negative National Image………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..11
Nine unattended flaws in the System of Governance….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..11
Three Immediate Challenges…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….11
The First Step: Put the House in Order………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..12
From Where to Begin: …Repositioning Pakistan………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….12
Five Territories on the National Activity Map…………………………………………………………………………………………………….12
Why Five Territories on National Activity Map?.................................................................................................13
Social Activity………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………13
Political Activity…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..14
Economic Activity………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..15
Diplomatic Activity………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………16
Military Activity…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..18
National Activity Plan from Civil Society’s Perspective………………………………………………………………………………………18
Social Activity: Action………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….18
Political Activity: Action………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………20
Economic Activity: Action……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………21
Diplomatic Activity: Action………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….22
CONCLUSION…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….24
AUTHOR’S PROFILE……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………24
READING LIST……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………25
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3. Pakistan, a leaderless leader in economic growth potential among
Emerging Markets…
By
Zahid Hussain Khalid
INTRODUCTION: Questioning Pakistan’s Growth Potential
We fail to see Pakistan among the top 25 rapid growth markets, Pakistan is neither a contributor nor a
beneficiary of ten years of massive growth reflected in an investment of US$2.9 trillion by Asian
companies in regional and global expansion during 2003 to 2011 and Pakistan is also not among 25
countries which have been placed by Earnst and Young’s Rapid-growth Markets at the highest, medium
and the lowest risk levels respectively. Is this situation in Pakistan permanent? Will it never change? Is
there any room for optimism? CFO Innovation Asia Business Outlook Survey of first quarter 2013 notices
sharp increase in optimism on the growth prospects in Asia based on a cautious listing of strengths,
willingness and concerns of Asian corporate leaders. Do Pakistani people and political and corporate
leaders also have any reason to be optimist of their country’s and corporate sector’s growth prospects?
Pakistan has more than one reason to be optimist: Country’s ideal geographical location; a
predominantly young population and demographic dividend for timely absorbing the economic shock
waves across different social and economic
segments of the society during the most critical
period of Pakistan’s social, political, economic,
diplomatic and military history spanned over a
period of more than a decade; people of
Pakistan’s response to diplomatic and military
provocation as well as ongoing clearly visible
foreign military action other than war within its
boundaries compounded by a state of lawlessness and complete failure of law enforcement agencies
with patience; and Pakistan’s more than humble nuclear capability posture are more than convincing to
believe that room for optimism will always remain there for Pakistani leaders and the people to get up,
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4. go and get counted not only in Asian but global growth markets and five territories on the national and
global activity maps, a term coined and introduced by author of this paper.
PAKISTAN’S REAL ECONOMIC GROWTH POTENTIAL:
Pakistan is one of the few ideally located human and natural resource rich countries of the world. Very
few countries have such a rich profile of the tangible and intangible elements of national power: ideal
geographical location; highest percentage of youth in the population mix; immense potential in social,
economic, political, diplomatic and military leadership; the most challenging and promising diplomatic
horizon displaying a rainbow of the possibility of extension and the fear of contraction of borders in at
least three sides of the country’s boundary lines; and one of the mightiest military force in the world.
POSITIONING PAKISTAN
Socially, 70 percent population under 30 years
Economically, one of few countries with world’s highest Regional GDP
Politically, genuine national security-risk free patriotic leadership?
Geographically, the posibility of territorial expansion and contraction in all directions cannot be ruled out
Militarily, one of the world’s less than a dozen most powerful countries
Pakistan’s Regional GDP, keeping the four out of five overwhelmingly positive aspects of country’s
tangible and intangible elements of national power in mind, makes it one of the most attractive places
for regional strategic investment in South Asia. Regional GDP, according to Euromoney magazine,
assesses a country’s catchment area in terms of the GDP of all economies within 500 kilometers of its
borders.
While Pakistan remains hanged between dismal performance and more than a dozen reasons for
optimism, “Between 2012 and 2017, the share of world CP market growth coming from emerging Asia,”
according to Earnst and Young’s analysis from Euromonitor data, June 2013, ‘Brand New Order – Profit
or lose Balancing the growth-profit paradox for global consumer products companies and retailers in
Asia’s emerging markets,’ “will rise from 29% to 38%.”Pakistan evidently has the potential to contribute
more than any other country in the region by drawing and re-drawing natural and human resources
maps and seriously working on them to make them appear on the world economic map.
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5. TIMELINE OF TAKEOVER BY CHINA AND INDIA AS GLOBAL ECONOMIC LEADERS
It is rightly perceived that China is moving
ahead cautiously as a global economic growth
leader; India’s claim to third position in global
economic leadership is clouded with doubts at
present, though not out of reach yet, and
Pakistan is striving for an “externally borrowed”
breathing space. Will Pakistan be able to even
join the race for leadership among globally
acknowledged leaders?
Yes, Pakistan can by relying on its own natural and human resources governed and managed by
responsible and cautiously responsive political and corporate leaders.
GLOBAL SCENARIO: FUTURE WORK SKILLS AND SIX DRIVERS OF CHANGE
Future Work Skills 2020 Report has listed Six Drivers of Change: extreme longevity; rise of smart
Six Drivers of Change
machines and systems; computational world;
1: Extreme Longevity
Increasing global life-spans change the nature of careers
new media ecology; super-structured organizations; and globally connected world. The
and learning
2: Rise of smart machines and systems
Workplace automation nudges human workers out of
message in this report for 70% young Pakistanis
rote, epetitive tasks
3: Computational world
is to grow up; familiarize with smart machines
Massive increases in the sensors and processing power
make the world a programmable system
and systems; connect with computational
4: New Media Ecology
world; try to know the architects and
New communication tools require new media literacies
beyond text
understand the reach and impact of new media
ecology, found or become part of superstructured
organizations
and
prepare
to
become active citizens of globally connected
world.
5: Super-structured organizations
Social technologies drive new forms of production and
value creation
6: Globally connected world
Increased global interconnectivity puts diversity and
adaptability at the center of organizational structures
SOURCE: Future Work Skills 2020, Institute for the Future for the University of
Phoenix Research Institute 2011
Professional proficiency, according to Future Work Skill 2020 report, requires ten skills: sense- making;
social intelligence; novel and adaptative thinking; cross-cultural competency; computational thinking;
new media literacy; transdisciplinarity; design-mindset; cognitive load management; and virtual
collaboration.
Young Pakistanis have the ability to understand the dynamics and pace of innovation in today’s hyperconnected world and find a place for their genuine intellectual, professional and entrepreneurial
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6. capabilities in the global markets. Thousands of young Pakistanis are seen well placed in global
conglomerates and they are the real hope of tomorrow’s Pakistan.
FUTURE WORK SKILLS 2020
Pakistani youth needs to focus on developing a
sense of inquisitive observation, meaningful
probe,
clear
experimenting,
understanding,
consistent
convincingly
concluding,
patiently pre-testing, conclusively succeeding,
aesthetically packaging, extensively networking,
selectively communicating, and technically
SOURCE: Future Work Skills 2020, Institute for the Future for the University of Phoenix
Research Institute 2011
collaborating.
SEVEN KEY CORPORATE CHALLENGES AND ACTIONS:
Accenture in their report, “Growth Journeys: Helping Asian companies realize the value of their
international expansion strategies,” have highlighted seven key corporate challenges: decision-making
processes and authority are over-concentrated in global headquarters; overseas offices' lack of respect
for the leadership authority of headquarters; lack of clear structure in top leadership roles and
processes; leadership across functions and geographies lacking alignment on the common goals of the
global organization; governance structures are not clearly understood by staff outside of the home
country; lack of ability to hold overseas offices accountable for not complying with processes and
procedures; weak cross-border collaboration and listed seven actions to continue moving on smoothly
KEY CORPORATE CHALLENGES AND ACTIONS
KEY
C
H
A
on growth track emphasizing the need for:
Decision-making
processes and
authority are overconcentrated in
global headquarters
L
L
E
Mentoring and
coaching programs
focused on global
leadership
mentoring and coaching programs focused on
global leadership; personality and leadership
ACTIONS
Lack of clear
structure in top
leadership roles and
processes
Cultural sensitivity
training
sensitivity
Regular global
videoconferencing or
other advanced
communicat-ions
conferencing or other advanced communica-
Governance
structures are not
clearly understood
by staff outside of
the home country
E
S
Personality and
leadership
assessment for global
leadership
Leadership across
functions and
geographies lacking
alignment on the
common goals of the
global organization
N
G
Overseas offices' lack
of respect for the
leadership authority
of headquarters
Connecting talent
across the global
company into teams
or workshops
Lack of ability to hold
overseas offices
accountable for not
complying with
processes and
procedures
Weak cross-border
collaboration
assessment for global leadership; cultural
training;
regular
global
video-
tions; connecting talent across the global
360-degree feedback
for global leadership
team members
Offering
international
assignments and
global rotation
programs
company into teams or workshops; 360-degree
feedback for global leadership team members;
offering international assignments and global
rotation programs.
SOURCE: “Growth Journeys: Helping Asian companies realize the value of their international expansion strategies,” Accenture
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7. Pakistanis are capable of accepting the challenges and always found ready to come into action
whenever they were assigned the task to do so in the interest of their country. But, instead of country
benefitting from their actions, the rewards ended up in foreign bank accounts of corrupt political
leaders, criminal corporate mafias, bureaucrats and army generals.
PEOPLE WANT CHANGE! TO BEGIN WITH, FOCUS ON COUNTRY’S HIGHLY TALENTED YOUTH…
GLOBAL STATE OF TALENT:
For that the OECD’s “Education at a Glance” has
The present global state of talent with the right skills, Projected
to 2030
prepared a Global State of Talent with Right
Skills
Projections
Map
2030
highlighting
medium and strong employability challenges,
talent shortage and reduced demand and
greater talent availability and demand. This
map also indicates that Pakistan is among
countries with greater talent availability and
demand. The greater availability and demand of
SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Education at a
Glance (Paris: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development,
2006), 155./ “Investment in Global Education: A strategic Imperative for
Business,” Center for Global Education at Brookings, September 2013
talent in Pakistan underlines the need for the development of Pakistan’s Human Resource Maps and
their scientific alignment of demand and supply of world class talent well-equipped with national and
global competencies.
THE VALUE CHAIN OF TALENT:
THE VALUE CHAIN OF TALENT
SOURCE: “Investment in Global Education: A strategic Imperative for Business,” Center for Global Education at Brookings, September 2013
The Value Chain of Talent published in “Investment in Global Education: A strategic Imperative for
Business,” Center for Global Education at Brookings, needs slight amendment to incorporate , Shakespeare’s “Seven Stages of Life” in the value chain.
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8. In Pakistan’s case, the Value Chain of Talent demands planning for a citizen’s “Seven Stages of Life” from
early childhood to either entrepreneurship or employment and a post-retirement concern-free life.
A MAJOR CONCERN: EMPLOYABILITY
The Importance of Equitable Access and Good-Quality Education
to the Private Sector (Non-exhaustive list)
“Global employability studies rightly indicate
that from 2011 to 2030, the availability and
demand for talent will increase in emerging
market economies such as China, India,
Indonesia, South Africa and Brazil. However, in
these emerging market economies, despite a
rising pool of available workers, ‘employability’
will appear as a major concern. Employability
SOURCE: “Investment in Global Education: A strategic Imperative for Business,” Center
for Global Education at Brookings, September 2013
refers to an individual’s readiness for work with
foundational skills (i.e., literacy and numeracy) and transferable skills, such as problem solving,
communication and critical thinking” concluding that, “Unless education enrollment and completion are
strengthened in these economies, the eligible working age population may continue to experience a
denial of more productive and remunerative opportunities, which will have a negative impact on their
standard of living, the growth potential of businesses in these locations and the overall growth of these
economies.” The report has also emphasized the need for “The Importance of Equitable Access” and
“Good-Quality Education” to the Private Sector judiciously demanding the reduction in the “talent
acquisition and retention” and “learning and development” costs. Ironically, the talent acquisition and
retention costs are gradually decreasing un-proportionately to cost of learning and pre-recruitment
development self-financed by young people and their parents. Have a look:
MONTHLY HHOUSEHOLD BUDGET ALLOCATIONS ON EDUCATION
SOURCE: Nielsen Global Survey of Consumer Demand, Q1 2013
Pakistan Leaderless Leader in Economic Growth Potential Among Emerging Markets
“I CANNOTAFFORD EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES WHERE I LIVE.”
SOURCE: Nielsen Global Survey of Consumer Demand, Q1 2013
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9. So, what the governments need to do is to bring down the enrollment and tuition fee through a mix of
corporate sponsorships and government subsidiaries in the developing world to an affordable level and
improve the quality of education for all irrespective of the social and economic status of the students
and their parents. The present system of education across the globe is evidently producing classes of
different levels of employees who rarely move from lower managerial level to higher managerial levels
and this will be noticed not in the distant but the near future.
The most important aspect of this ironic situation is the need for understanding the seriousness of the
psychological and social dimensions of this issue before it’s too late.
ANALYZING POTENTIAL RETURNS TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR
FROM INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION
Does this yardstick to measure “profitability of
investment
in
education:
concepts
and
methods,” have a module to evaluate the
return on investment to Pakistan or to that
matter any other country?
SOURCE: “Investment in Global Education: A strategic Imperative for Business,” Center
for Global Education at Brookings, September 2013
CONTEXTUAL ASPECTS OF GOVERNANCE, CAPACITY LEVELS AND EVALUATION:
The Framework for Institutional Performance Evaluation consists of Four Cycles of Preparedness:
Four Cycle of Preparedness
5 Motivations
6 Environments
7 Capacity linkages
and
4 Performance parameters.
This frame work prepared by Universalia (1985)
and IDRC (1995) provides a simple to follow
guideline for political and corporate governance
and its evaluation.
SOURCE: Universalia 1985; IDRC 1991; Influencing Change: Building Evaluation
Capacity to Strengthen Governance, The World Bank 2011.
Do our systems of political and corporate governance and education meet any of the criteria such as
motivation, environment, capacity and performance in any walk of life?
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10. PROCESS CUSTODIANSHIP AND GOVERNANCE IN DIFFERENT
CONTEXTS:
Mohammad A. Jaljouli, author of “Evaluation
Systems as Strategy Management Tools:
Building
Dubai’s
Institutional
Learning
Capacity,” published in “Influencing Change:
Building Evaluation Capacity to Strengthen
Governance,” has illustrated process custodianship and governance in different contexts
revolving around:
SOURCE: Mohammad A. Jaljouli, “Evaluation Systems as Strategy Management Tools:
Building Dubai’s Institutional Learning Capacity,/Influencing Change: Building
Evaluation Capacity to Strengthen Governance, The World Bank 2011.
National Agenda
Government Strategy Map and
Sector Strategy Maps covering Health,
Education, Social Development and
Economic Development
Does the government of Pakistan have an Integrated “Contextual National Agenda,” and a “Set of
Natural and Human Resource Maps?”
This paper will discuss the demand of Five Territories on National Activity Map emphasizing the need for
the preparation of an Integrated District, Provincial and National Agenda and a set of “Natural and
Human Maps.”
THREE LEVELS OF CAPACITY
Caroline Heider, in her paper, “A Conceptual
Framework
for
Developing
Evaluation
Capacities: Building on Good Practice,” has also
illustrated and discussed Three Levels of
Capacity: enabling environment; institutional
framework and knowledgeable, skilled and
competent individual.
SOURCE: Caroline Heider, A Conceptual Framework for Developing Evaluation Capacities:
Building on Good Practice, “Influencing Change: Building Evaluation Capacity to Strengthen Governance,” The World Bank 2011.
POSITION PAKISTAN ON THE WORLD ECONOMIC MAP OF RAPID-GROWTH ECONOMIES:
HOW IS PAKISTAN LOOKED AT?
STEP 1: Positioning Pakistan on the world
economic map
STEP 2: How is Pakistan looked at?
Lack of national consensus
Crime mafias and terrorist groups
Communication deadlock
…Pakistan’s National Image
POSITIONING PAKISTAN
NATIONAL IMAGE
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11. THE CAUSES AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE NEGATIVE NATIONAL IMAGE:
Pakistan’s national image is result of a Cycle of Nine Social and Economic evils:
Illiteracy and Ignorance result in
ILLITERACY
AND
Unemployment results in
IGNORANCE
SECTARIANIS
M AND
Poverty results in
UNEMPLOYMENT
TERRORISM
Deprivation results in
RELIGIOUS,
ETHNIC AND
Psychological and Physical Stress result in
With no plan in
POLITICAL
PREJUDICES
hand and funds
Crime and Corruption result in
INJUSTICE
AND
VIOLATION
OF HUMAN
RIGHTS
Injustice and Violation of Human Rights result in
Religious, Ethnic and Political Prejudices result in
POVERTY
available
to break this
DEPRIVATION
Cycle of Nine
CRIME
AND
PSYCHOLOGICAL
Social and
STRESS
CORRUPTION
Sectarianism and Terrorism.
Economic Evils
NINE UNATTENDED FLAWS IN THE SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE
CARELESS RULERS
SELF-SERVING
PUBLIC SERVANTS
IRRESPONSIBLE
CORPORATE
CONGLOMERATES
PARALYZED LAW
ENFORCEMENT
AGENCIES
INCOMPETENT
FISCAL AND
MONETARY
MANAGERS
INEFFECTIVE
DEBT
MANAGEMENT
EXTERNAL
RELIANCE FOR
BUDGETARY
TARGETS
ECONOMIC
STRANGULATION
AND IN-DOUBT
SOVEREIGNTY
PERPETUAL STATE
OF UNCERTAINTY
AND
IRRESPONSIBLE
MEDIA OWNERS
AND
JOURNALISTS
This is the dilemma of the world’s most powerful human and natural resource rich leaderless country of
the leaderless Muslim world..!
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THREE IMMEDIATE CHALLENGES:
Disconfigured System of Governance
Lack of Consensus and
The Way Out
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12. THE FIRST STEP: PUT THE HOUSE IN ORDER
What you see here is a disconfigured
system of governance
Entire nation is entrapped in something
that is not part of any plan!
Read the details here:
http://www.slideshare.net/19540201/a-review-of-thefive-territories-on-the-national-activity-map
FROM WHERE TO BEGIN? … REPOSITION PAKISTAN
An integrated district, provincial and federal
Governance Plan based on a set of natural and
human resource maps in line with country’s
tangible and intangible elements of national
power and Strategic National Economic Vision
and its alignment with the demands of
Globalization for safeguarding national interest
and benefitting from resulting gains of keeping
pace with Global Economic Growth.
FIVE TERRITORIES ON THE NATIONAL ACTIVITY MAP:
Geographic
Location
Military
Demographic
Strength
Mix
CIVIL
SOCIETY?
Leadership
Economic
Growth
See where the pieces of the puzzle will ultimately fit in…
WHY FIVE TERRITORIES ON THE NATIONAL ACTIVITY MAP?
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13. National Activity Map consists of social,
political, economic, diplomatic and military
Political
thematic territories. Each thematic territory
needs a leader and leadership failure in any one
SOCIAL
Military
Civil
Society
or more than one of the thematic territories on
Economic
National Activity Map results in nothing but
social unrest. The social unrest demands a
review of its dimensions proportionately linked
with the nature and seriousness of failure in any
Diplomatic
one or more than one of the remaining four
territories. When the causes of social unrest are
discussed in the corridors of power, the political leaders discuss the political; economic leaders highlight
the economic; diplomatic leaders present bilateral and/or multilateral diplomatic; and military leaders
emphasize the military perspectives highlighting their respective roles, needs and plans of actions minus
the perspective and needs of the people who have entrusted them with a leadership role for the
protection of their interests. What do we find missing here? Who is supposed to highlight the social
sector perspective? Yes, federal and provincial social sector related ministers and genuine civil society
leaders supposedly represent the people but isn’t their social sector development agenda prepared and
financed by international donors? Consequently, who will they represent and report to? The will
obviously represent and report to those who holds the purse!
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SOCIAL ACTIVITY:
Social territory is a nucleus around which the other four territories on the national activity map revolve.
A family, therefore, is a focal point with reference to social and civil rights and responsibilities. It is,
therefore, necessary to understand its role in national politics and national planning needs to focus on
an individual’s seven stages of life.
CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE SEVEN STATGES OF LIFE
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14. Each transition of an individual’s life from one
stage to the other till his death reflects a change
in his role, his rights and his responsibilities as
member of his family, society and the state. The
family, the society and the government are
supposed to design rights and obligations
keeping in view a human beings needs and
ability to contribute to family, society and the
government.
How do the families, societies and governments maintain balance between needs and obligations of an
individual? The answer is focus on Delivery System. And media has a great responsibility to do that.
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POLITICAL ACTIVITY:
Politics has become subservient to an “adjustable” party agenda on “day-to-day basis” instead of
“manifesto focused” governance to represent the voters in democratic as well as non-democratic
political systems across the globe. Agenda adjustability is a necessity that dawn on political leaders and
dictators after they are voted in to wear the crown or the crown finds their heads in a country like
Pakistan. They come to know only then that demands of the corridors of power are totally different
from the demands of the street power.
The social, political, economic, diplomatic and
PARTY
MANIFESTO
military confusion visible in the capitals of
different continents, including Pakistan, clearly
PRESSURES OF
GLOBALIZATION
HOW TO
REMAIN
FOCUSED?
indicates that the political leaders across the
EXPECTATIONS OF
VOTERS
globe are unsuccessfully struggling to create a
workable
COALITION CONCERNS
AND DAY-TO-DAY
DEMANDS AND
PRESSURES
manifestos,
balance
between
the
expectations
their
party
of
their
disappointed voters and long term national
strategic vision/goals and genuine external pressures of globalization. Political situation in Pakistan is far
more disturbing in view of the fact that the country is in a mess on all fronts of governance.
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15. ECONOMIC ACTIVITY:
New financial world order in a globalized economy has exposed the economies of the countries to
internal threats compounded by external visible and invisible pressures. Unhindered flow of money
across borders has created a new breed of non-state entrepreneurs who do not believe in nationalism
or patriotism, as the employees don’t believe in loyalty to their companies. They invest the money
where the return is the highest. They are, in a way, justified in doing that because in business anywhere in the world, the single most important
EASE OF DOING
BUSINESS
priority is to maximize return on investment.
The investors take their money to the countries
where the ease of doing business, availability of
NO OR NOMINAL
TAX REGIMES
cheap labor, no or minimum regulatory
CAPITAL
FLIGHT
AVAILABILITY OF
CHEAP LABOR
interventions, no or the lowest tax regimes are
NO OR MINIMUM
REGULATORY
INTERVENTION
guaranteed to them. Consequently, we find
more than $30 trillion parked in offshore banks!
These non-state entrepreneurs have created an
economic havoc in developed economies of the
world by exporting jobs, creating unemployment back home and reducing GDP growth
rates in their own countries turning the task of
running a developed country’s economy into a
nightmare. The economic mess Europe and USA
find themselves in is self-explanatory evidence
of what is happening on global economic front. They are struggling to escape from the Domino Effect…
Fortunately, Pakistan is one of the top listed emerging market’s economies with higher Regional GDP
than
the
most
preferred
emerging
economies
in
different
continents
of
the
world
(http://www.slideshare.net/19540201/potential-of-investment-in-pakistan-12752206). Why Pakistan has failed to take any
small or significant advantage of its globally acknowledged pro-investment inflow position on Global
Investment Flows Map of the World? The answer is carefully engineered disconfiguration of Pakistan’s
elements of national power with the connivance of the pawns of enemies of Pakistan placed at different
management levels in almost every pillar of the state as well as corporate sector. These allegedly known
and unknown pawns in every pillar of the state and corporate sector have perpetuated a state of
permanent uncertainty in such a way that nothing in any area of economy can be planned and
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16. implemented with foreseeable, dependable or predictable timeline. On the policy making front the
government has become stooge of a number of criminal business cartels that are evidently inflicting
loses of billions of dollars in different sectors of economy bringing Pakistan to the edge of bankruptcy.
DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITY:
In today’s globally and economically
interconnected world, diplomacy is an art that
keeps a country on the safe side economically
and militarily in a highly unpredictable world.
Diplomatic activity, therefore, is the most
sensitive of all other activities on the National
Activity Map. If we look at what is happening on
the economic and military fronts in Pakistan, we
clearly see a glimpse of the professional capability of the people who are managing the foreign affairs of
the country. The situation in and around Pakistan was never unpredictable even decades ago for an
average student of international relations in early 1970s! That was almost four decades ago
(http://www.slideshare.net/19540201/hang-together-or-you-will-be-hanged-individually and
end-of-the-independent-muslim-world.
http://www.slideshare.net/ 19540201/the-
Diplomacy is not a day-to-day affair. It is considered as the backbone of a
country’s National Strategic Vision and Goals. Governments come and go but the National Strategic
Vision and Goals do not change with the changes in and around a country.
A country’s vigilant leaders always remain fully cognizant of developments in and around borders of
their countries. The only but controversial visionary statesman par excellence and expert in diplomacy
was Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who knew what was happening, what was expected and how to prepare for any
eventuality. The irony of international relations is that he failed to envision his own unfortunate abrupt
political and physical end. After him Pakistan has become a “Diplomatic Orphan” taking summersaults
with developments in and around its borders.
Zia-ul-Haq played his diplomatic cards fairly well
AFGHANISTAN
to take full advantage of political, economic and
CHINA AND
SOUTH ASIA
PAKISTAN
MIDDLE
EAST
military developments in and around Pakistan.
Internally, he had succeeded in partially
damaging the vote bank of Pakistan Peoples’
IRAN
Party in Sind, Punjab, Baluchistan and NWFP
and creating his own political squad.
Externally, he did not compromise on economic cost of his country’s military involvement in
Afghanistan. His diplomatic and strategic military skills were negatively overshadowed by his political
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17. blunders and known and unknown reasons behind mysterious Ojhri blasts. After the removal of Junejo
as Prime Minister he was told by those for whom he was working that his days were over!
The political regimes prior to Musharraf’s take
MUJAHEDEEN IN KABUL
AND ANP IN PESHAWAR
over, were internally struggling to keep their
feet on ground politically. They had little to do
on the external front except for a brief
NAWAZ SHARIF
IN PUNJAB
ZIA-UL-HAQUE
MACHIAVELLI'S
MQM IN SIND
"PRINCE"
interaction of Nawaz Sharif with British Prime
Minister and American President who wanted
him to review his declared intention to make
FIRST PHASE OF MILITARY
MULLAH ALLIANCE
Pakistan a confirmed nuclear state. Pakistan did
not comply and this was the point from where Pakistan’s days of skillfully engineered political and
economic doom started. With the nuclear explosion Pakistan had become allegedly, but NOT in reality
“The Only Nuclear Fort of Islam.” Even that was
NUCLEAR
EXPLOSION
not to be tolerated at any cost in any capital of
the non-Muslim world for obviously known
KARGIL
MISHAP
NAWAZ
SHARIF'S
DILLEMAS
ECONOMIC
STRANGULATION
reasons. This is when Pakistan’s economic
strangulation was seriously planned and put
into operation not covertly but overtly. Another
IRRESPONSIBLE
GOVERNANCE
controversial diplomatic as well as military
event was Nawaz Sharif’s visit to United States
of America for seeking support to put an end to India-Pakistan Kargil clash. That is the history of
Pakistan’s “political and economic diplomacy.”
The dismissal of Nawaz Sharif’s government by
Pervez Musharraf had diplomatically isolated
Pakistan until the attack on Twin Towers in
September 2001 opening a new chapter in the
history of diplomacy in Pakistan and rest of the
world. After 9/11 Pakistan’s armed forces
played a decisive role in both diplomatic as well
as military affairs of Pakistan.
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18. MILITARY ACTIVITY:
9/11 is a turning point in the history of diplomacy and military affairs. The unilateral and multilateral
application of the theory of preemptive strikes and the concept of military operation other than war in
war theaters in almost all continents of the world have exposed the political and military leaders to
extremely serious new challenges.
THEORY OF
PREEMPTION
NEED FOR
LEGISLATIVE
COVER
PSY-OPS
AND
MILITARY
WEB
CONFUSING
MILITARY
AND
POLITICAL
TACTICS
MILITARY
OPERATION
OTHER THAN
WAR
The political leaders have to justify the social,
economic and diplomatic consequences of
involvement in externally ill-advised or flawed
internally planned military actions within and
outside a country. Similarly, military leaders
have to seek parliamentary cover prior to
involvement in war against terror in and around
a country. Consequently, the political leaders
and military commanders are under tremendous pressures to justify their actions and the
impact of those actions on five territories of
National Activity Map. This is not Pakistan
specific, political, diplomatic and military deve-
lopment. “You are either with us or against us” and the “League of Democracy” are two other areas of
global concern that have disturbed the political, diplomatic and military balance to an extent that their
adverse social and economic fallout is witnessed in every corner of the world.
These are indeed difficult times. Exceptionally extraordinary situations underline the need for innovative
re-invention of state management systems based on scientific analysis of ground realities. The question
is how to either renegotiate or get out of bilateral and multilateral obligations and alliances that are
evidently destabilizing Pakistan and disconfiguring and damaging its system of governance to an
irreparable extent.
NATIONAL ACTION PLAN FROM CIVIL SOCIETY’S PERSPECTIVE:
SOCIAL ACTIVITY: ACTION
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19. In order to make its voice heard, the civil society needs to create public pressure groups and personal
security platforms.
EXAMPLES: An irresponsible and irresponsive ministry of water and power has made the life of people
miserable in every walk of life by launching a country-wide unscheduled and unannounced loadshedding plan instead of controlling politically motivated leakage and attempting other available
management options strictly and honestly. The people came out in the streets to protest against this
brutal practical demonstration of ministerial and bureaucratic incompetence. What was witnessed?
An angry mob was seen and reported attacking everything that came in its way turning a genuine
expression of displeasure and the right to protest into a violent criminal act and an activity without an
outcome. What did this activity without an outcome convey? The conversion of civil society into an
unruly mob without a well defined goal and invisibility of a civil society leader to guide them for
agitating for a purpose in a way to get the problem solved. So, in a situation like this people need to first
nominate someone from among themselves to lead them when their elected representatives go
into hiding and then agree on a plan of action to make sure that their problem is not temporarily but
permanently solved. Media on its part failed to honestly investigate the genuine reasons for shortfall in
electricity generation and exposing the real culprits behind the crime with facts, figures and evidence.
How civil society can point out media’s failure or to come up with its own investigative research by
young college and university students declaring media as a “silent partner in crime” and demanding
action against the ministry officials, the power generation and distribution companies and their corrupt
staff, the politicians with evidence of supporting criminals involved in “power theft” and the media
staff’s failure in doing justice to the assigned beat.
The people need to get organized, create social response platforms and pick up their politically
uninfluenced and unbiased civil society leaders.
Pakistan’s only hope is the country’s youth. Ironically, youth is allowed to work and vote for political
parties but they are not allowed to form student societies and unions in colleges and universities. The
college and university students exit the educational institutions and enter into a bigger university of
practical life. Whatever they learn helps them in laying the foundation of their personal career and
family life around that. Politics is very much a part of their lives too. In the past, when student unions
were not banned in colleges and universities, the students played an important role in country’s politics
too. How they do that in advanced countries is a very important subject for research.
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20. POLITICAL ACTIVITY: ACTION
Civil society has to discard any individual who seeks public office for personal benefit and pick the
public office holders themselves brushing aside all those internal and external intelligence agencies
sponsored politicians who appear in two to three television programs in a single day and are
introduced by print and electronic media as genuine political leaders particularly sons of army
generals, daughters of politicians and technocrats of dubious political and personal character and
retired bureaucrats, judges and army generals. They were repeatedly voted into power by people
and they did nothing except betraying trust of the voters. What they are good in is nothing but
talking and talking a lot without making any sense. This is what they and their party leaders are doing
for the last so many decades. All of them must be permanently discarded and thrown out of
country’s politics for good.
Civil society needs to come up with its own selection process and create platforms for the
nomination of candidates for national and provincial assemblies and the senate. The right of
selecting a candidate must be taken back from the political party leaders who have developed an
army of visionless incompetent and corrupt political idiots promoted by equally unprofessional and
now publically condemned criminally obliged print and electronic media journalists, anchors and
analysts.
All those politicians who have criminal charges against them or are being tried in the courts of law
ought to be disqualified from contesting election for any public office until they are proven not guilty.
Civil Society has to develop a mechanism for the investigation of public complaints against the office
holders of the four pillars of the state and take the culprits to courts and judicial council no matter
how highly placed and important they are and see that the justice is done.
Presently ongoing superior court proceedings in NRO and other cases have established beyond any
doubt that the constitution of Pakistan is seriously flawed and evidently provides shameful cover to
criminals once they are elected. These flaws need to be pointed out by the civil society for immediate
review and appropriate correction.
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21. ECONOMIC ACTIVITY: ACTION
The government of Pakistan does not have a National Economic Vision, Natural and Human Resource
Potential and Performance Map and rationalized Public Administration Expenditure Manuel. The
bureaucracy does not have a “Public Service Code of Conduct” that binds it to remain open and
available to ideas and projects of national importance. Presidential immunity is used by section
officers and federal secretaries for hiding incompetence, negligence, indifference and corruption at
every level of state management operation. Civil society has to create platforms for addressing the
highlighted state management loopholes.
The civil society, first of all, needs to make the government accountable for the direct and indirect
taxes that are paid by people but are not accounted for in FBR’s records through unlawful connivance
of FBR’s staff with corporate criminals.
Annual increase in the salaries of government employees has to be linked with their transparent
public dealing and professional performance. None of the government ministries as well as staff of
the Prime Minister and President secretariats have done anything for the country and the people to
be proud of. Therefore, there is no justification for across the board increase in their salaries. Their
failure to perform their duties has been shamefully rewarded. Nothing can be more insulting and
obnoxious than this act of ignorance on record by the finance ministers and Prime Ministers’ entire
cabinets that goes un-noticed and un-condemned to the level it deserves.
All the facilities regarding accommodation, payment of utility bills, personal security and domestic
staff have to be withdrawn with immediate effect irrespective of the official positions of the
beneficiaries in three pillars of the state. When tax payers are not receiving any service against the
taxes they are paying, the government officials must be ashamed of using those services being
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22. servants of the people. These unlawful perks and privileges have made them criminally negligent of
their duties and irresponsive to the genuine problems of the people.
DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITY: ACTION
Pakistan’s ideal geographical location makes it one of the most fortunate countries in the world but the
situation in and around Pakistan has made it the most unfortunate and rightly or wrongly the most
ridiculed piece of land on the map of the world. Who is responsible for turning Pakistan’s good
diplomatic fortune into shameful ridicule?
GEOGRAPHICAL
LOCATION
DEFENCE
CAPABILITY
POLITICAL & CIVIL
SOCIETY
LEADERSHIP?
NATURAL &
HUMAN
RESOURCES
ECONOMIC &
INVESTMENT
POTENTIAL
Without an attempt to give a controversial
answer to this question it will be hopefully
more appropriate to look into the possibility of
reversing the situation to Pakistan’s advantage.
The key for that is the proper evaluation of
Pakistan’s tangible and intangible elements of
national power and their reconfiguration for
proper positioning and utilization of country’s
ideal geographical location, its rich natural and
human resources, and its incomparably unique
economic and overseas investment potential.
MILITARY ACTIVITY: ACTION
It will not be inappropriate and out of place to blame Pakistan’s military commanders for the overall
mess Pakistan is in. So far Pakistan’s military commanders have repeatedly jumped in to put the
country’s democracy back on track but always gifted Pakistanis a much bigger mess before they left.
They made failed attempt after attempts to covertly and overtly reform Pakistan’s overall system of
governance making it far more ungovernable through their hand-picked politicians and “Kalam Kabila”
(The media owners and their artificially over-pampered writers and anchors who are now getting
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23. exposed and appearing in their true colors). Now instead of trying another way out in an old manner it
will be advisable to use the civil society giving them military cover in getting their right to self-govern
back to them in its true sense. How that can be done? That can be done only by mobilizing “Influence
Groups” in every walk of life through “Specific Self-Governance Tasks” within a given timeline. The
commanders need to command and see what the followers do when they are on their way to become
masters of their own destiny instead of getting enslaved by political demagogues with dual and multiple
nationalities and loyalty to none. Why is it necessary? It is necessary because Pakistan’s security is NOT
threatened by external conspiracies or possible aggression. Pakistan’s very survival is threatened by
internal lawlessness, incompetence of political leaders with criminal background and evidently
vulnerable to external anti-state pressures and complete irreparable collapse of the system of
governance if the affairs of the state are continued to be managed in the way they are managed now.
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24. CONCLUSION:
When those who are given the mandate to govern make the country ungovernable then the only way
out for the civil society is to lead the way to show the leaders that those who are mislead can lead too
when the time comes. It is far more important to self-govern than handing over the right to govern to
those who cannot see beyond their nose.
Pakistan’s only hope is the country’s youth. Ironically, youth is allowed to work and vote for political
parties but they are not allowed to form student societies and unions in colleges and universities. The
college and university students exit the educational institutions and enter into a bigger university of
practical life. Whatever they learn helps them in laying the foundation of their personal career and
family life around that. Politics is very much a part of their lives too. In the past, when student unions
were not banned in colleges and universities, the students played an important role in country’s politics
too. How they do that in advanced countries is a very important subject for research.
Zahid Hussain Khalid has worked for national and international media
groups not as a journalist but a marketing practitioner, researcher and
analyst. He successfully initiated and completed the assigned managerial
and country tasks for such publications as Arab News, Financial Times, Jang
Group, Euromoney magazine, Petroleum Economist, South China Morning
Post, Asiamoney magazine, Innovation Management and Hong Kong
Standard except Forbes Inc, Forbes Global, Forbes Europe, Forbes Asia. He
will always remain thankful to Mr. William Adamapolous and Mr. Steve
Forbes of Forbes Inc and Mr. Tony Shale CEO, Euromoney Institutional
Investor Group (Jersey) Limited for their personal encouragement and
support in initiating and marketing Pakistan-specific innovative integrated
media packages for investment promotion. He also worked as Associate
Producer, Current Affairs, Pakistan Television Corp.
His articles have appeared in the Daily Jang, Daily Mashriq, the Nawa-e-Waqt and daily The Muslim on social, economic, political, diplomatic and military subjects
which are available here http://zahidhkhalid.wordpress.com/ and here http://www.slideshare.net/19540201
He had co-produced more than hundred episodes of the most popular weekly program “Hafta-e-Rafta” and was nominated for Best Producer’s award for
documentaries on Afghan Refugees and Year of the Aged.
His work reflects a visible difference because he strongly believes in innovative approach in everything that he does. He was co-owner of International Media Sales
from 1991 to 2012 and is owner of SUN&FZ Associates since 1994.
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25. READING LIST:
1.
Growing Beyond: Rapid growth market, Winter Edition - January 2013,” Earnst & Young
2.
“Growth Journeys: Helping Asian companies realize the value of their international expansion strategies,” Accenture 2013
3.
Earnst & Young Rapid-Growth Markets Forecast – October 2013
4.
CFO innovation Asia, Business Outlook Survey, First Quarter 2013
5.
“Brand New Order – “Profit or lose Balancing the growth-profit paradox for global consumer products companies and retailers in Asia’s
emerging markets,” Earnst & Young, June 2013
6.
Future Work Skills 2020, Institute for the Future for the University of Phoenix Research Institute 2011
7.
Education at a Glance (Paris: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2006), 155.
8.
“Investment in Global Education: A strategic Imperative for Business,” Center for Global Education at Brookings, September 2013
9.
Nielsen Global Survey of Consumer Demand, Q1 2013
10. Universalia 1985; IDRC 1991; Influencing Change: Building Evaluation Capacity to Strengthen Governance, The World Bank 2011
11. Mohammad A. Jaljouli, “Evaluation Systems as Strategy Management Tools: Building Dubai’s Institutional Learning Capacity,” /
“Influencing Change: Building Evaluation Capacity to Strengthen Governance,” The World Bank 2011
12. Caroline Heider, A Conceptual Framework for Developing Evaluation Capacities: Building on Good Practice, “Influencing Change: Building
Evaluation Capacity to Strengthen Governance,” The World Bank 2011.
13. Zahid Hussain Khalid, Potential of Investment in Pakistan: http://www.slideshare.net/19540201/potential-of-investment-in-pakistan12752206
14. Zahid Hussain Khalid, Pakistan’s Independence Day Message to Government and the people of Pakistan:
15. http://www.slideshare.net/19540201/pakistans-independence-day-message-to-government-and-people-of-pakistan
16. Zahid Hussain Khalid, America, the Great Game and the Greater Middle East – an un-discussed perspective unveiling the birth of
conspiracies,
http://www.slideshare.net/19540201/america-the-great-game-and-the-greater-middle-east-an-undiscussed-perspective-
unveiling-the-birth-of-conspiracy-theories
17. Zahid Hussain Khalid, Malala Mishap and Global Media Scenario in Retrospect, http://www.slideshare.net/19540201/malala-mishap-andglobal-media-scenario-in-retrospect-taliban-and-pakistan
18. Zahid Hussain Khalid, The Weaknesses and the only Strength of the Muslims, http://www.slideshare.net/19540201/the-weaknesses-ofthe-muslims
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