Feb 4

SDGs
To achieve 17 sustainable development goals, the world economy  leaders must focus on economic, social and political factors. Steps must be taken to promote the following goals:

• Fund developing countries as the output on return is more than double the investment in a saturated developed economy
• Sustainable Infrastructure organization (SIO) under the umbrella of UN must be established unlike the Sustainable Infrasture Forum by developed countries only.
• Global impact projects such as OBOR should be supported

Inter Institutional Dialogue

In the past, the various state organs have indulged in power struggle,often, encroaching on each others  ambit of authority. This environment is a result of lack of trust among the institutions. However, the time has come to fix these problems once and for all.  In order to ascertain the correct mechanism, there are a few options, such as:

• Utilizing the pre-existing National Security Council (NSC)
• Ponder on the role  of judiciary as part of the consultations
• Problem is that judiciary's presence in such forum and the decisions taken afterwards may make them a party which can influence the independence of the  institution

Gilgit Baltistan's Constitutional Status

Before retiring from the office, the former Chief Justice of Pakistan, Saqib Nisar ordered the implementation of the Gilgit Baltistan Self Governance Ordinance 2009 in the light of recommendations by then foreign minister's committee on the matter in 2017. The judgement and the recommendations have the following implications, such as:

• Gilgit should be given a provisional provincial status
• Now, GB residents can lodge their complaints directly to the supreme court of Pakistan
• After the verdict, the GB legislators can demand changes to the governance structure in GB
• Finally iintegrate in Pakistan after seven decades of independence
• GB residents are entitled to basic human and legal rights provided by the constitution of Pakistan