As the world marked World Press Freedom Day on May 3, 2026, proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1993, the plight of journalists in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir remained largely overlooked. The territory remains one of the most dangerous and restricted places in the world for media professionals, where intimidation, surveillance, and...
The Federal Government of Pakistan has reportedly decided, on the recommendation of the Ministry of National Food Security and Research, to import one million tonnes of wheat to meet the requirements of the provinces and ensure the availability of wheat across the country. This decision has once again exposed a fundamental contradiction in Pakistan’s wheat...
The Federal Government’s latest cabinet decision has laid bare one of the most disturbing contradictions in Pakistan’s governance. At a time when the country is confronting an unprecedented fiscal crisis, a public debt exceeding Rs90 trillion, soaring inflation, shrinking economic opportunities, and a rapidly declining standard of living, the government has chosen to reward the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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