In the Pursuit of Future

By: Habib Sangar Taking into account the importance of the friendship between Afghanistan and India, and the actual move that has been put in place with signing the Strategic Partnership (SP) today, it would be very suitable for the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, to call this relationship as what the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yusuf Raza Gilani, in a failed attempt of seeking support from the Chinese authorities, has termed their relationship as, “higher than mountains, deeper than oceans, stronger than steel and sweeter than honey”. Looking to the contents of this SP, Afghanistan as poor nation, dependent on international aid, facing a traditional enemy, Pakistan, who has always sought its interests in a destabilized, weak, and backward Afghanistan, is provided with an opportunity to ensure its long term security and stability as well as to accelerate its economic growth by utilizing all the potential resources that this wonderful piece of hearth personifies. However, as far

By: Habib Sangar Today’s rapid economic growth and spillover of research and technologies around the world to some larger extent is attributed to the expansion of business partnership as well as Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), who have always been in search for competitive advantages that a region offers at a specific time. Nonetheless, long continental distances that once it took months to traverse as well as had the countries and region isolated from each other, today aviation has shortened such long distances and enabled businessmen/women and owners of the multi- national companies to launch their businesses all over the world and to visit and monitor the progress of their firms in persons at anytime. Today, in worldwide level we have been the witness of significant innovation and development in the field of aviation. Providing of standardized services, flight safety and assurance through utilizing most advanced and up-to-dated technologies have been made possible by well ed

By: Habib Sangar Syracuse, NY In his meeting with General Zai of Pakistan in 1978, our late President Daoud, who was so emotional at the moment, had said, “Your strength, your welfare is our welfare and your stability is our stability. Let’s walk hand in hand in the warm glow of brotherhood and sincerity to cover the distance laying ahead of us,,,,,, I hope friendship between Pakistan and Afghanistan will be permanent and everlasting”. Still, I don’t know why it has taken Pakistan that long to realize that fact that both countries need each other more than ever in the past. Instability in Afghanistan is having (and will certainly be having) negative impacts on Pakistan. With its strategic location, Afghanistan can better serve Pakistan, who is in desperate needs for the energy as well as to boost its economy. The recent assassination of the high profile clergy and chief peace negotiator as well as rockets strike on US embassy in Kabul respectively each carried out by Quetta Shura and a