Navi Pillay awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2026

 

1) Nominated and selected

The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on 9 October 2026 that the Nobel Peace Prize goes to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay “for her efforts to promote peace and international law.” The committee received nominations for 287 candidates this year. Names of nominees are normally kept confidential for 50 years, so public claims about who was nominated are not the same as the committee’s shortlist.

Pakistan’s prime minister restated the same day that Pakistan had nominated US President Donald Trump, citing his claimed role in a May 2025 India–Pakistan ceasefire. Trump did not receive the prize. The committee’s choice was Pillay, 85, a South African jurist.

 2) What she did?

Pillay was born on 23 September 1941 in Durban, South Africa, into a family of Indian Tamil origin under apartheid. She qualified as a lawyer, opened her own practice in Natal in 1967, and defended anti-apartheid activists, including Nelson Mandela. She later studied at Harvard Law School (LL.M. and a doctorate in juridical science). In 1995 she became the first non-white woman appointed to South Africa’s High Court.

Internationally she served as a judge and then president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. There she helped establish that rape and sexual violence, and certain propaganda, could amount to genocide or crimes against humanity. She later sat as a judge at the International Criminal Court and was UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014.

From 2021 to 2025 she chaired the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory. That commission concluded Israel had committed genocide in Gaza; Israel called the finding scandalous and rejected it. She has also sat as an ad hoc judge at the International Court of Justice in the case accusing Myanmar of genocide.

The Nobel citation stresses a single thread: using courts and legal institutions so that war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide can be prosecuted, and so that states and leaders can be held to account.

 3) Effect on the world and on South Africa

The award is a signal, not a change in law. The committee framed it against a rise in wars and against political pressure on international courts, including US criticism of the International Criminal Court. It argues that peace depends on rules that bind the strong as well as the weak, and that prosecuting grave crimes is part of preventing further violence. Supporters see the prize as backing for the ICC, ICJ, and UN human-rights machinery. Critics note that those bodies have limited enforcement power, that some of Pillay’s inquiries (especially on Gaza) are sharply contested, and that a prize does not settle those disputes.

For South Africa the prize adds another global legal figure to a line that already includes Mandela. It highlights the path from domestic anti-apartheid lawyering to international criminal tribunals. It does not alter South African policy by itself, but it raises the profile of a jurist whose career is closely tied to the country’s post-apartheid courts and to later international cases. The cash award is about 11–12 million Swedish kronor (roughly $1.2 million), presented in Oslo on 10 December.

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Dilemma and Delusion: The Exodus of Pakistan’s Doctors

 Dilemma and Delusion: The Exodus of Pakistan’s Doctors

                                                                                                                                                                                                                

                                                      

*By Prof. Waqar Hussain*

(Ex.Head of Chemistry Department; Freelancer; M.Sc. Chem, M.A. History,
M.A. Pol. Sc., M.A. Isl. St.; CSS, PCS Qualified; Correspondent Course
in Journalism NIJ;national Institute Of Journalism)

A general discussion in the media currently revolves around three
pressing issues: doctors leaving the country, a supposed scarcity of
medical professionals coupled with alleged negligence, and horrors
such as the PIMS tragedy in which fourteen newborn babies died in a
fire. Before the probe goes deeper, a statistical sketch of the
profession makes the argument easier to follow.

There are about 319,000 registered doctors in Pakistan.

The official doctor-population ratio is 1:751. The WHO’s benchmark is
1:1,000. On paper, Pakistan looks better than the WHO floor. On the
ground, the picture changes entirely due to unemployment, emigration,
and doctors who simply do not practise.

Medical colleges produce 16,000 to 22,000 new MBBS graduates every year.

Public MBBS seats number about 9,200, while private seats are about 9,300.

The government cost of producing one doctor is reported at Rs 10–15
million. A government MBBS student pays less than Rs 1 million over
five years. In a private college, the bill is around Rs 15 million.
While there is no single official audited figure for the full public
subsidy—Rs 4 million has also been cited in print—the gap between what
the student pays and what the state spends remains massive.

The gender split is striking. Female MBBS students make up 65–70% of
the cohort in recent claims, with older claims putting them above 80%.
Among registered doctors, women account for about 47–50% and men
50–53%. Broadly, the student ratio is about two women to one man; the
registered-doctor ratio is about one to one.

Government jobs: the last bulk regular recruitment was 900 Medical
Officer (BPS-17) posts in July 2024 (Advertisement No. 13/2024). Since
then, no large permanent MO batch has been announced. Instead, the
state has been hiring doctors more like daily labour—by the shift,
often six hours at a time. The more hours one serves, the more one is
paid, akin to overtime. My son is a doctor; I mention this so the
reader knows I have a direct stake in both the plight and the
performance of the profession.

Emigration is rising. 2025 was the worst year on record: 3,800–4,000
doctors left the maternal nest for better grain.

These eight points sketch the dilemma. The ultimate question is why they leave.

Pay is remarkably low. Some of my son’s friends have been offered as
little as Rs 18,000. Private clinics and hospitals commonly offer Rs
40,000–60,000. Whenever this scribe visits a hospital or clinic and
asks about pay, the answer falls within that range. Those institutions
prefer the discussion to stay general, so names stay out of this
piece.

Furthermore, career growth is slow, and working conditions are poor.
Doctors often complain in anonymity: A BPS-17 doctor is often
humiliated by a BPS-17 Assistant Commissioner. Public representatives,
especially in rural areas, can make a doctor’s life hell. Some demand
that the doctor leave a rush of patients at a rural center to visit
their families at home. Others pressurize the doctor to forge injury
reports to suit their legal cases. Patients, too, sometimes turn
furious and treat healthcare workers aggressively.

The crushing patient load is yet another issue. In a busy government
hospital, one Medical Officer on a morning OPD often sees 80 to
150-plus patients, and in crowded districts the number can climb even
higher. There is no official national “patients-per-doctor” rule; this
is the staggering load commonly reported from DHQ and THQ OPDs. Time
per patient is often reduced to a mere two to five minutes. The queue
is long, the staff is thin, and the clock does not wait.

Compare this to the United Kingdom, where a hospital clinic doctor
typically sees about 10 to 20 patients in a full-day clinic.
Appointments are substantially longer than a Pakistani OPD slot, and
the British Medical Association officially designates “25 contacts” as
a safe daily limit, with a standard GP slot lasting about 10 minutes.
Similarly, in the United States, a primary-care doctor in a normal
clinic sees about 20 to 25 patients a day, spending a comfortable 15
to 20 minutes with each.

The contrast, therefore, is not a rumour. A Pakistani government MO on
a packed morning OPD may see three to six times as many patients as a
UK or US clinic doctor—and with only a fraction of the time to
diagnose and prescribe. That is the very ground on which “negligence”
is so often shouted, and the very ground on which many young doctors
decide to leave.

When young doctors compare this reality with the standing of doctors
in Western countries, and convert those foreign salaries into
Pakistani rupees, the figures run into millions—with far less outside
pressure and humiliation. So, they leave for a better future.

Those who stay often specialise and eventually open their own
hospitals and laboratories. Unfortunately, some treat patients in a
way that recovery is not swift, ensuring the patient returns again and
again, paying Rs 3,000–4,000 a visit plus expensive tests. Others
drift into illegal organ transplants, corruption, or prescribing one
specific company’s medicine in exchange for the company paying their
electricity bills and providing other perks.

Meanwhile, those who work honestly in public hospitals complain of
meagre resources, missing medicines and equipment, and severe staff
shortages.

Health is simply not a priority when the government spends less than 1
percent of GDP on it—about 0.8 percent in FY 2025–26. Politics
captures more attention than the health of the populace. That exact
milieu is what is forcing our doctors to fly!

*Pakistan’s olive trees soar from 500,000 to nearly 7 million*

 *Pakistan’s olive trees soar from 500,000 to nearly 7 million*

Prof waqar Hussain 

 Pakistan’s olive plantations have grown from about 500,000 trees in
2016 to nearly seven million today, a fourteenfold rise as the country
seeks to cut a $4 billion edible oil import bill.

The groves now cover some 60,000 acres across Punjab, Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Sindh. Officials plan another 15,000
acres in three years under the new National Olive Value Chain Policy.

The industry is still young. Only about one-fifth of the trees are
fruit-bearing. Even so, officials say olive oil imports have fallen
from 400,000 tonnes to 200,000 tonnes, and the related bill from $14
million to about $9 million in FY 2024–25.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called even a $400 million saving “a
monumental service.” Pakistan now has a seat at the International
Olive Council, more than 50 extraction units and nurseries able to
produce millions of saplings a year. With an estimated 10 million
acres suitable for olives, the test ahead is not planting alone, but
turning young orchards into oil, jobs and exports.

PPLA CALL OFF SIT-IN; ON AGREEMENT WITH GOVT

PPLA  CALL OFF SIT-IN; ON AGREEMENT WITH GOVT

      Punjab Professor and Lecturer Association had been observing sit- in at Charing Cross Lahore since 26 March to get endorsement of government for their "Trioka demands" .On observing cold response of concerned authorities ,PPLA announced boycott of classes after 10am on daily basis from yesterday I.e.31st March .Feeling the gravity of situation education Minister Raja Yasar Humyun Sarfaraz started dialogue with PPLA and came up with an agreement last night .Government pledge to announce training program of deserved professors within 4 months  . Second, government fully agreed with pay protection to be granted to batches of 2002 ;2005 ;2009 and 2012 .Government agreed to revise service structures by replacing four tier formula with five tier formula like KPK gradually.On acceptance of demands PPLA called off Sit-in and boycott of classes. Professors from all over the Punjab had a sigh of relief and became jubilant on government assurance .They distributed sweets and exchanged greetings of success and applauded government for it's education friendly posture.

پروفیسرز کا دھرنا ختم ؛ حکومت کے ساتھ مذاکرات کامیاب

                     
       پروفیسرز کا دھرنا ختم ؛ حکومت کے ساتھ مذاکرات کامیاب


پنجاب پروفیسر اور لیکچر ایسوسی ایشن پیپلا  26 مارچ سے لاہور چیئرنگ کراس پر اپنے تین بنیادی مطالبات کی
منظوری کے لۓ دھرنا دے کر بیٹھے تھے اور کوئی حکومتی نمائندہ ان کے پاس نہ آیا -اس بے حسی کو دیکھ کر پیپلا نے اپنا احتجاج دوسرے مرحلے میں داخل کردیا اور کل 31 مارچ سے صبح دس بجے کے بعد کلاسز کے بائیکاٹ کی کال دی۔ جس پر صوبہ بھر میں تدریسی کام 10 بجے کے بعد تقریبا بند ہوگیا -اس نازک صورتحال کو حکومت نے بھانپ لیا اور پیپلاکی قیادت سے وزیر تعلیم راجہ یاسر ہمایوں سرفراز نے مذاکرات شروع کیے، جو کل رات دیر گئے ختم ہوئے -وزیر تعلیم اور پیپلا  کے درمیان ایک معاہدہ طے پایا جس میں پیپلا کے تینوں مطالبات کو منظور کر لیا گیا- پہلا مطالبہ کے جواب میں حکومت نے چار ماہ کے اندر اندر ٹریننگ کے پروگرام کا نوٹیفکیشن جاری کرنے کا وعدہ کیا -اس طرح پروفیسرز کی تین سال سے رکُی ہوی  پرموشن کا عمل دوبارہ جاری ہوجائے گا۔ دوسرے مطالبے کے ضمن میں کنٹریکٹ پروفیسروں کے بیچ 2002 ؛2005 2009 اور 2012 کی تنخواہ کے تحفظ کو یقینی بنانے پر اتفاق کیا گیا۔ تیسرے مطالبے کے جواب میں چار درجاتی فارمولے کی جگہ پر آہستہ آہستہ کے پی کے(KPK ) کی  طرز پر پانچ درجاتی فارمولے کو بتدریج نافذ کرنے کا وعدہ کیا۔
مطالبات کی منظوری پر پپلا نے اپنا دھرنا اور بائیکاٹ کی کال واپس لے لی- پروفیسر میں خوشی کی لہر دوڑ گئی اور وہ ایک دوسرے کو مبارکبادیں دینے لگے اور ہر جگہ مٹھائیاں تقسیم ہونے لگی ۔دوسری طرف چند پروفیسرز کا کہنا ہے کہ حکومت نے لالی پاپ دیا ہے کیوں کے مطالبات کی منظوری کا کوئی نوٹی فکیشن جاری نہیں کیا گیا جبکہ پیپلاں کی قیادت اور اکثر پروفیسروں کو یقین ہے کہ حکومت اپنے وعدے کی پاسداری کرے گی اور استاد کو عزت دے گی

PPLA protest enters second phase; boycott of classes all over the Punjab

      Prof Waqar Hussain   

 

            PPLA Punjab Professor and lecturer Association has been holding sit-in in front of the Punjab Assembly at the Charring Cross Lahore since 26 March ; Thousands of professors from all over the Punjab gathered there to protest for their trio-demand in peaceful manner.

      Professors are demanding troika demands; their  first demand is pay protection of contract professors batches of 2000, 2005, 2009, and 2012 . They are demanding that their salary count should start from the day, they joined higher education department.

     Second demand is that their promotion had been stopped with a condition of “pre promotion training” for the last 3 years. Government is neither conducting training nor promoting them. As a result, thousands of matured promotion cases are laying pending. They are asking for moving of promotion of process. They are ready to undergo training but govt lack necessary facilities for training. They demands if conduction of training is not possible at the moment, deserved professor should be given promotion as it was done on earlier times.

Third demand , Professors want implementation of KPK 5-tier formula i.e. 0.6% for grade 21; 22% for grade 19; 35% for grade 18; and 36% for grade 17.

     After 7 days of peaceful sit-in, government has turned a deaf ears to their demand so they entered into 2nd phase of their protest by announcing boycott of classes after 10 am onward on daily basis.

   In line with PPLA central executive decision; professors of TI college Chenab Nagar boycotted the classes after 10 am and had a walk inside and outside college. And raised slogans high to be heard in the higher echelon of power and get rectified. People of the area showed great concern of the prevailing scenario when they saw“ builders of nation” begging for their own“build up” of service structure and demanded that mentors of nation should be given high stature both in economic and social domain.

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Tipu Sultan Day Celebrated at Govt T I College      

         Tipu sultan day was celebrated at Govt. Postgraduate College Chenab Nagar the other day; to mark the martyrdom of a great soldier on 4 May 1799, known as lion of Mysor, who preferred honorable death over humiliated living. Various speakers adorned the day especially Prof Ali Imran Shah was jewel of the day as he delivered a key note speech to highlight the role of Hazarat Tipu Sultan. He said "Tipu Sultan was a true soldier of Islam and freedom loving stardom. He abhorred cunning politics of the British Ruler and was determined to exterminate the British out of the peninsula. Unfortunately Nizam of Deccan and Maratha did not side with him. So, he decided to combat on his own meager resources. He organized his army on modern footings and put up valiant fight to uproot foreign rulers. He also mobilized foreign powers like Afghanistan, France, and Egypt to get rid of British rulers. He did all what he could do, but Mir Jaffer’s treachery put barricade on wake of his ambitions. He lost his life but was able to set an example and engraved his name on the pages of history. He proved that valiant never dies but disappears. He became a role model for the later generation who ultimately uprooted castles of British imperialism and were able to see the dawn of freedom.