Reading up on the future
Sun, May 02 2021 10:20:53 AM
Mumbai, May 2 (IANS): Intelligence is all about deciphering what lies ahead analysis of what happened in the past and a capacity to determine what entails for the future in the goings-on of the present, certainly help but Einstein s famous dictum imagination is more important than knowledge also speaks of the relevance of the versatility of the human mind that could see beyond what the facts presented to the analyst meant and thus enrich the assessment. All of this seems to have guided the US National Intelligence Council s 20-year forecast of where the world would be, published recently.
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THIS is with reference to the article ‘Exempt from accountability?’ (April 17) which made several accusations about the International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS) and has wrongly linked it with the removal of Dr. Tariq Banuri from the Higher Education Commission (HEC).
To set the record straight, the late Prof. Salimuzzaman Siddiqui and Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman, two of the most famous scientists of Pakistan, were involved in the development of this international centre as successive directors from 1966 to 2002. Prof. Rahman retired as ICCBS director some two decades ago and has not been involved with the centre in any administrative or financial capacity since then. The centre has been built and sustained with international grants from Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and other countries as well as donations from the Husein Ebrahim Jamal Foundation and the Dr. Panjwani Memorial Trust.
Perhaps Delhi Needs to ReJig its Afghan Policy Taliban takeover
The spectre haunting India today is that its worst case scenario in Afghanistan is becoming reality a Taliban takeover. Delhi watches with disquiet the United States unceremoniously dumping its “conditions-based” troop withdrawal agenda, cutting loose and quitting the war.
The salience of the background press call Tuesday by a senior White House official is that the drawdown may have begun unnoticed and would be over much before the proposed timeline of 11th September. There isn’t going to be a NATO mission anymore to train or advise the Afghan armed forces. Any residual US military presence will be solely to provide security for the American diplomatic compounds.