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Coastal climate action 2021
FIRST year of the third decade of the 21st Century has begun with various challenges for the world, region and Pakistan. Global challenge of overcoming the Covid-19 has brought the world together in sharing information. The change of guard at the White House is expected to end the earlier isolationism of USA to join the…
Population management – need of the hour
Nisar A. Memon 11-July- 2020 – Pakistan Observer Pakistan entered decade of 2020 with a population of 207 million putting a huge demand on already scarce resources. While the new regime was struggling to find its feet on the ground comes the pandemic COVID-19 bringing death, disaster and economic hardships. Governance came to be tested…
Where do we Stand on Sustainable Development
Nisar A. Memon 06-July- 2020 – Pakistan Observer Time to reflect once again; where we stand in the comity of nations and where we are going. A debater can argue on both sides of the stage, a demagogue can harangue endlessly without substance, but the thinking people reflect in the context of security and sovereignty…
How the Legacy Lives
Nisar A. Memon 29-June- 2020 – Pakistan Observer Pakistan is no exception where government leadership is out to justify their policies, programs and personal conduct, while opposition pointing out the weaknesses and flawed policies of government. The phenomenon is same in all Continents but with varying degrees and in different forms. Covid-19 is telling it…
Strengthen Institutions
Nisar A. Memon 22-June- 2020 – Pakistan Observer COVID-19 has infected aver 8.7 million worldwide, with nearly half a million fatalities. Beijing has reported fresh outbreak and their leadership putting ‘wartime’ measures to contain the spread by enforcing strict lockdown and testing once again. Europe is opening up after huge loss of life and prolonged…
Sovereign Pakistan’s Budget
Nisar A. Memon 15-June- 2020 – Pakistan Observer Acute political confrontation of the decade, non adherence to Constitutional procedures, governance issues, absence of consensus on a national economic plan, mistrust in leadership, dependence on foreign financial and management support marred the 2020-2021 Budget like last budget, but to cap it all came Covid-19. The GDP…
Innovate for a Sustainable Ocean
Nisar A. Memon 08-June- 2020 – Pakistan Observer COVID-19 suffocates the world and takes away our near and dear ones from us irrespective of color, caste, creed and color of the skin. There are seven oceans providing oxygen we breathe therefore they are called ‘the lungs of our planet’. The surface of the Earth is…
Eid with a difference
Nisar A. Memon 25-May- 2020 – Pakistan Observer This Ramzan, majority of Muslims around the world while observing Rozas (fasting) offered Taraweeh (late night prayers) quietly in their homes, except some who defied government instructions and advices of religious leaders and prayed in mosques. It was against the common sense behavior of protecting themselves, their…
Back To The Root
Nisar A. Memon 18-May- 2020 – Pakistan Observer When a person, nation or humanity is beset with problem; the commonly tried and tested approach is to go to the root cause of the problem to understand, analyze and find solution to fix it. This is what is done in knowledge based organized societies with strong…
All On One Page
Nisar A. Memon 11-May- 2020 – Pakistan Observer Today, the whole world is talking about various aspects of a common enemy Covid-19. Whatever the reasons, rationale or conspiracy theories on the subject which are in abundance, the fact remains we are obsessed by this monster. The fear is monumental because there is no medicine and…