Libraries are often called the heart of a society because they protect knowledge, history, and ideas. They allow people to learn, question, and understand the world around them. However, when governments begin deciding which books people can read and which ideas are acceptable, libraries risk becoming tools of control instead of centres of learning. Recent...
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Kashmir, the UN and the Pursuit of Peace
Dr. Ghulam Nabi FaiChairmanWorld Forum for Peace & Justice July 23, 2026 The United Nations Security Council’s high-level debate on July 23, 2026, on “Strengthening the Mechanism for the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes” served as a timely reminder that diplomacy remains humanity’s most effective instrument for preventing war. Convened as a follow-up to Security Council...
Pakistan’s Transit Corridors: Strengthening Iran’s Supply Chain Resilience.
An NSTN Perspective Recent disruptions to global supply chains have highlighted the importance of diversified logistics corridors. For Iran, supply chain resilience depends on having multiple international gateways that reduce reliance on any single port or transport route. Pakistan is now well positioned to become one of those strategic gateways. The Government of Pakistan has...
Livestock: Pakistan’s Most Effective Pathway Out of Poverty.
Poverty remains Pakistan’s greatest socio-economic challenge. Millions of families struggle every day to meet their basic needs for food, healthcare, education, and shelter. Despite numerous poverty alleviation programmes, subsidies, and cash transfer schemes introduced over the past several decades, rural poverty continues to persist. The challenge before Pakistan is therefore not simply to provide temporary...
Governing Through Trauma: The Mental Health Emergency India Will Not Acknowledge in Kashmir.
A woman in the Kashmir Valley has not slept properly in eleven years. She cannot identify the exact night the sleeplessness began. It may have been the raid. It may have been the detention. It may have been the curfew that lasted so long her children forgot what school felt like. She has never seen...
The DP World ILT20 has created a pathway for UAE cricketers: Muhammad Rohid.
Rohid reflects on becoming one of the highest-valued UAE players at the league’s landmark first-ever player auction and the league’s impact on his career. Season 5 of the six-team, 34-match DP World ILT20 will be played in November-December 2026. Dubai, 21 July 2026, (TW News) – For UAE left-arm pacer Muhammad Rohid, the DP World...
The Inconvenient Mandela—and the Inconvenient Question of Kashmir: When Will Words Become Action?
Dr. Ghulam Nabi FaiChairmanWorld forum for Peace & Justice July 21, 2022 The United Nations marked Nelson Mandela Day at its headquarters in New York on 20 July 2026, although the international observance falls each year on 18 July—the date of Mandela’s birth. Established by the United Nations in November 2009 and first observed in...
Statehood and Self-determination are Fundamentally Different: WKAF.
Washington, D.C. (TW News) – The demonstration in New Delhi demanding the restoration of statehood for Jammu and Kashmir, led by the National Conference, is, in our view, a political exercise that fails to address the fundamental aspirations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. While it may be presented as a struggle for the...
Beyond Agriculture: Livestock Has Emerged as Pakistan’s Next Economic Growth Engine.
For more than seven decades, Pakistan’s development policies have largely underestimated the true economic importance of the livestock sector by treating it merely as a sub-sector of agriculture. This outdated approach has kept one of the country’s largest economic assets in the shadow of agriculture, denying it the policy attention, institutional recognition and public investment...
Gilgit-Baltistan: Development Yes, Province No
Dr. Ghulam Nabi FaiChairmanWorld Forum for Peace & Justice July 18, 2026 Once again, Pakistan finds itself debating a proposal that has surfaced repeatedly over the years—and every time it does, it raises the same fundamental question: why weaken our own position on Kashmir? A group of senior members of the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly, led by...








