PMS: Shortlisted Essays

❖ The world needs soft power.

❖ Social Media and the dilemma of hate speech.

❖ IMF and Pakistan: Past, Present and Future

❖ A democratic society is a society of free, equal, active and intelligent citizens; each man

choosing his own life himself and willing that other should choose theirs.

❖ Online Education is impossible in the absence of digital infrastructure.

❖ Only single national curriculum can unify a diverse nation.

❖ Higher education: ills and remedies

❖ Predicament of democracy is an informed electorate.

❖ Gender is a social construct, not a natural condition.

❖ Feminism, a misleading concept

❖ Have we done enough to save our generation from global warming?

❖ FDI: bone or bane?

❖ Human rights, social justice in the age of the global markets

❖ Government can choose to act to build more equal societies

❖ Foreign policy is never guided by lofty ideals, but resourcefulness of a state.

❖ Globalisation divides the world between winners and losers.

❖ From the role of the United Nations in the next century flows three key priorities for the

future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflicts and promoting democracy.

❖ Real development is human development

❖ CPEC: promises and perils