War on Terror: Socio-Economic Ramifications for Pakistan

The War on Cancer: Lessons from the War on Terror

The war metaphor has become commonplace in discussions about our endeavor to find a cure for cancer. But beyond the power of imagery, this analogy offers the opportunity to highlight lessons that warriors of cancer can learn from the warriors of terror: that more efficient killing of the undesired cells may not always be better. Evidence suggesting that drug-stressed and dying cancer cells can ...

Remittances Impact on Socio Economic Development in Nwfp, Pakistan

Material well being and resource mobilization have assumed importance and priority over many other things. One consequence of this has been a significant number of people migrate from Pakistan to different countries of the world in search of better paid employment. As a result they send remittances to their home country. The aim of the study was to find out the volume and utilization pattern of...

Deterrence in the Cold War and the “War on Terror”

Southeast Asia : Winning the War on Terror ?

ECONOMIC LEADERS FROM AROUND the world gathered in Hanoi, Vietnam for the 14 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in November of 2006. With this year’s theme of “Towards a Dynamic Community for Sustainable Development and Prosperity,” the APEC community strived to make clear its support for the Doha Development Agenda. In addition, the forum emphasized the need to protect human secu...

Impacts of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder on the Performance of Pakistan Army Veterans Deployed for War on Terror

Many a people across the world are affected by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) which may pose as a debilitating illness not only inhibiting an individual’s life but also seriously disrupting the performance at the work place as a whole. Functioning level of PTSD varies from individual to individual depending upon the level of its impairment to that of an inversely proportionate level of j...