A friend mentioned that he suddenly felt like he was in the middle of the 90’s movie “Demolition Man” due to the advent of social distancing. I ignored his quip as I tried to wade through the flood of messages advertising online services and the shift to working remotely from home..
We meet Ayla Majid, Managing Director of Financial Advisory Services at Khalid Majid Rehman Chartered Accountants. Holding an MBA from the Lahore University of Management Sciences, a law degree from the University of London and an ACCA Qualification, Majid also sits on various boards and advises both public and private.
Today, in 2020, we face another war, one being fought worldwide and against something quite unfathomable called the “unseen” enemy. We had no previous defence strategy developed for it. Cities, towns and entire countries have fallen victim to one of the most widespread viruses in the world. What started as.
Leaving aside all the conspiracy theories on the virus that have been deleted from my WhatsApp, the lockdown of Italy and the rest of the European countries was inevitable and necessary when by mid-March the number of infected persons listed in Italy jumped from a few hundred to thousands within days.
International Women’s day (IWD) since the past few years in this part of the world has suddenly become highly sensitized and with a plethora of debates triggering volatile dispute. The slogan this year which caused a greater dialogue, over many issues, to be demanded amongst women’s rights was “MeraJism, Meri.
The East West Institute (EWI) along with Konrad Adenauer Stiftung conducted an extremely successful two-day panel discussion in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on the water crisis titled Water Security and Disaster Management in Asia. The EWI is a conflict resolution organization with headquarters in New York. The participants discussed strategy, progress and possible.
“How is riding a motorcycle empowering for women? I’m trying to understand”, wrote a Business University alumna on her social media. It was perhaps for the sake of provoking a discussion there, however, some of the comments that were underneath I found quite interesting as the opinion on the matter was quite.
Our correspondent speaks to the young Pakistani man, who made it to the World Economic Forum on merit and sheer determination. Humzah Yazdani is a part of the Global Shapers Community, which is an initiative of the WEF. This year, he was selected to be a part of the Davos 50. Proud.
The World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report 2020 came out recently; sending many of us into a flurry of despair. It stated that at the present rate of progress, it could take us nearly 100 years to get to gender parity (99.5 years to be exact) and reach a.
“Our house is still on fire. Your inaction is fuelling the flames by the hour.” This year, the World Economic Forum (Wef20) brought together global leaders to address many world issues at the Annual Meeting in Davos, the top-most spoken about being the ecological crisis of our time. The theme.
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