Dr. Uzma Ashraf Barton

latest @Rout_PoliticsIR Timely critique on #HumanDevelopment & #ODA; my piece contrasts the #Chinese-led Development model with the Western International Economic Order and deals with #CPEC #BRI challenges and policy issues. routledge.com/Global-Economi…

We are an impactful family!

Stop by our booth at #SIDUSConference and say hi! We’d love to tell you all the cool things about our work & learn about opportunities on how you can join our family!

Thanks again to my father - who will live forever in memories 💖🙏

#HappeningNow Working towards a Healthy, Prosperous, and Resilient Planet for All #SIDUSConference Thank you to @crownagents, @Nathan_Inc, @Plan4Girls, @VTCALSGlobal, and @Ag_Productivity for sponsoring this event!

اسلام آباد میں کچھ لوگ اکٹھے ہوئے اور توہین مذہب کے الزام میں قید جنید حفیظ کو اظہار یکجہتی اور عدلیہ کو عدل کرنے کے لیے خطوط لکھے ۔

‘“No one follows the rules and guidelines any more,” says a frontline police officer aged in his twenties who asks not to be identified. “When my colleagues break the law, they never admit it and our superiors provide cover for them.”’ ft.com/content/077054…

@hasaankhawar By the way yeh Bhai sb present a classic picture of our typical Paki mentality! Couldn't read beyond a couple lines, wondering how did I pass the CSS :P

If you have ever wondered about 'negative impact of western culture on Pakistan', here is a gem 😆

Stillbirth & #neonatal #mortality rates are about twice as high in #SouthAsia as in #subSaharanAfrica. #Pakistan, unfortunately, the country has the highest rate of newborn deaths in the world and one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the region.

@hasaankhawar Get happy!

When your son is writing such reviews of small neighboorhood stores just for fun: Should you get frustrated that he's not studying enough for his A-Levels? Or Get happy about his expression and writing skills? Life is all about tough choices 😐

Why the SOS mission visiting in September than the scheduled November meetings?

So much for the optimism! Fingers cross!

@johntamny I know what you mean and I'm an avid reader of yours at #RCM but having lived in #Karachi, it is the lack of accountable governance. No dearth of ultra rich though.

@uzmashraf I think you know what I mean. There's rich, and then there's capitalist rich. Not much of the latter in Karachi, and it shows.

Thanks to the rich and superrich here, power is a given, so is trash collection, so is drainage.. thanks to the #RuleOfLaw here that brings #accountability and empowers everyone which is missing in #Karachi @johntamny realclearmarkets.com/articles/2019/…

@johntamny 'capitalist production has already enabled the production of better drainage systems, better garbage collection, and much better power infrastructure'... Aren't these the few things a #govt is supposed to provide? Sadly, #Karachi is also as #unequal as one can imagine

'As the wealth gap increases, the lifestyle gap plummets' - but not in the case of #developingSouth @johntamny realclearmarkets.com/articles/2019/…

@taharabbani2 Couldn't get much from a poor translation by Google.

They really believed they'd be able to keep something that deep in Indian territory...fool's paradise!

Sardar Patel offered #Jinnah that if #Pakistan did not encourage the #Nizam of #Hyderabad to join Pakistan or remain independent- then Pakistan could keep #Kashmir. Why/who rejected that offer and lost both?

@murtazasolangi Read; and that's why wondering!!! @KofiAnnan announced in 2009 that #Kashmir falls under chap 6 (&not under#7) hence, is voluntary adoption by both India & Pakistan. #UNSC can not force/enforce.

@uzmashraf Not true. Please read Simla agreement. It is available online.

Under the #SimlaAgreement #Pakistan agreed to accept #KashmirIssue as a bilateral matter in lieu of release of the 70,000 #POWs from East Pakistan, how @pid_gov now considers otherwise? Looking for grounds.

We all have our blinders but this kind of lefty revisionism takes the cake