KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 26): Education that emphasises on good values is essential to create a future generation of leaders who are able to lead a country with good governance.
Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said concerted efforts should also be taken to implant children with good values through education from the very beginning.
“I think, it all begins with our education. So if we start off teaching our children good values, when they grow up, they will know how to manage themselves and how to manage whatever position they might be in their own country.
“It is a long process, (but) there is no short cut (to it),” he said at inaugural Perdana Dialogue 2021 held virtually from Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday.
Faced with economic and strategic challenges, Turkey
has turned to Southeast Asia to potentially help revive its economy. Ankara may
find support from China in its new push, but building ties with the region will
depend on Turkey’s ability to keep religion out of the equation.
By Niranjan Marjani
On January 6, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu spoke to Southeast Asian ambassadors in Turkey and emphasized the importance of strengthening relations with ASEAN countries as part of the country’s Asia Anew initiative.
Turkey launched its
Asia Anew initiative in 2019to diversify ties with Asian countries in the fields
of education, defense, trade, technology, culture and political dialogue, but has
Pakistan in Middle East: Diminishing stature, dubious future,By Sumit Kumar Singh New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar returned to the country last week after a successful visit to Qatar, the seventh such high-level visit from India to West Asia amid the Covid-19 pandemic in the last four months. Before this, the visit
A number of contentious issues are changing the Pakistani-Saudi Arabian relationship.
The rapidly evolving geopolitical developments in the Middle East are also transforming the historic and strategic Saudi-Pakistan relations. The Saudi-directed recognition of Israel by various Middle Eastern countries and Islamabad’s reluctance to follow suit is straining its ties with Riyadh to New Delhi’s advantage. Israel’s recognition by the Arab countries is potentially increasing India’s economic and political space in the Middle East and squeezing that of Pakistan.
Against these developments’ backdrop, Riyadh is signaling to Islamabad that there will be no more free lunches. In return for financial bailouts and employment opportunities, the kingdom expects Pakistan to take unequivocal pro-Saudi political positions. Despite massive layoffs and sluggish economic growth due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Pakistani blue-collar workers’ remittances from Saudi Arabia form, among others, th