Brexit

August 06, 2021

Story of Operation Gibraltar (1965)

Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah asked a question to President General Ayub Khan in 1964. She asked that American military aid to India was the talk of the town. And India would use this aid against Pakistan. "I want to know how it happened." America was your friend. Why did you lose this friend? Everyone living in the East and the West Pakistan wanted to get the answer to this question. This question came up in the early era of Ayub Khan when industrial development was fast taking place. Now it had become clear that this progress was due to Pakistan's support to America against Russia. In return Pakistan had secured economic aid from America. This aid was being spent on the construction of Tarbela, Mangla dams and many other projects. But the Indo-China war in 1962, changed the scenario. America turned its face on Pakistan and started to give military aid to India. On the one side, America was giving military aid to India on the other, India was annexing Kashmir to its territo

Voters in the United Kingdom have voted to leave the European Union. It’s a major blow to European political and economic integration and a huge embarrassment for Prime Minister David Cameron, who might lose his job as a result. Cameron just announced he will resign "Britain is better off inside the EU than out on our own. At the heart of that is the single market. 500 million customers on our doorstep. A source of so many jobs, so much trade, a such a wealth of opportunity for our young people."

Britain’s exit will also have huge implications for the British economy. The EU functions as a single integrated economy kind of like the United States. And now that Britain is out regulations could make it harder to move goods across the English Channel.