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Pakistan’s Air Quality Control Programme: Beijing Case Study 0
- Blog
- March 3, 2021
Pakistan’s air quality according to recent World Health Organization’s guidelines is considered to be unsafe. However, poor air quality is not synonymous to Pakistan only. In early 1990s, Beijing’s air quality was considered to be poor. In 1998, the Government of China launched an intensified air pollution control programme which has been successful in drastically
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Smog knows no Boundaries – Can India and Pakistan Cooperate on Climate Change?0
- Blog
- March 3, 2021
Pakistan and India share some of the most polluted cities in the world between them, it is time for the two south Asian nations to cooperate on climate change as the future of 1.5 billion people is at stake. It may be interesting to note here that in 2017 alone, 128,000 Pakistanis and 1.2 million
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Blue Economy in danger: India’s nuclearization of the Indian Ocean 0
- Blog
- February 25, 2021
India in pursuit of military dominance in South Asia has started nuclearizing the Indian ocean threatening international peace and security. Indian ocean provides access to Australia, East Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Its importance and significance for international trade is enormous. While there are plenty of traditional and non-traditional threats in the Indian ocean
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A Case of Drugs in High Seas: Territorial Jurisdiction vs. National Security 0
- Blog
- February 24, 2021
To what extent does a country have the right to exercise territorial jurisdiction in international water? A Special Court of Mumbai on February 15, 2021 rejected the deportation plea of eight Pakistani nationals who were caught by the Indian Coast Guard off the Gujarat coast in 2015 in a drug case. The accused have filed
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Pakistan and the Blue Economy: Potentials and Challenges 0
- Backgrounder
- February 23, 2021
What Is Blue Economy? The Blue Economy is a new concept which encourages better stewardship of the ocean and its resources. It highlights the close ties between the ocean, climate change and the wellbeing of the population. It is also highlighted by the United Nations SDG 14 ‘life below water’. The blue economy model aims
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A Rundown Of Trump’s Impeachment Trials 0
- Blog
- February 19, 2021
WHAT IS IMPEACHMENT? The Constitution of the United States of America provides in Article I, Section 2 that the House of Representatives ‘shall have the sole Power of Impeachment’ and Article I,Section 3 states ‘Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments… but no person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two-thirds
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