"Blooming Thoughts"

  Impact of Political Instability on Economic Development in Pakistan                                     1.Introduction Political Stability plays an important role in Economic Development of a country. An unstable political system could seriously hamper economic growth. The concept of political instability was described by Lipstel (1960). He stated, “a country is considered as stable if it has been a liberal and consistent democracy or dictatorship for 25 years”, but recent politico-economic school of thought has changed the tradition of political instability. The standard definition of political instability is the propensity of a government collapse either because of conflicts or rampant competition between various political parties   (Hussain, 2014) . Economic growth and political stability are strongly related. The uncertainty associated with an unsteadfast political environment may decrease investment and the speed of economic development. Moreover, weak economic per

Who Are We (An Opinion): By Ajaz Ahmad T he People of Gilgit Baltistan are crying to annex with Pakistan or with Kashmir and there is group of People who wanted to annex with the Chinese Government and Indian Government. A Leader Nawaz Khan Naji the Member of Gilgit Baltistan Legislative Assembly introduced a new Ideology for the People of GB that from Kohistan to Gojal and from Gojal to Chitral have a distinct and separate identity/entity. He further elaborated that we the people of GB formerly known as Northern Areas of Pakistan have our own Languages (Shina, Balti, Burushaski, Khuwar and Wakhi), Culture, Race Geography, own History. We got Independence on 1 st November 1947 from Dogra Raj and rule the state for next 15 days but we never annex with Pakistan. The signatories who signed the agreement with annexation with Pakistan were from Kashmir no single one from GB. First we should be accepted as a separate entity and g