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Past present: Identity crises0
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- May 11, 2020
Mubarak Ali May 18, 2014 When the Mughal Empire was at its zenith; nobles, poets, artists, and architects from all over the Muslim world arrived in India in the hope of royal patronage at the Mughal court; and they were certainly not disappointed. They settled in the subcontinent and in recognition of their services, they
READ MORECorona — our debt to Darwin0
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- April 4, 2020
Pervez Hoodbhoy April 04, 2020 The Dawn The writer teaches physics in Lahore and Islamabad. CHARLES Darwin is a name Pakistanis are taught to hate. School teachers and university professors tasked with teaching his evolutionary theory usually skip the subject or, if they go ahead, first soften it with a ton of scorn. A commonly
READ MOREPakistan will not be blacklisted, say scholars0
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- February 19, 2020
Anwar Iqbal February 18, 2020 WASHINGTON: The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is unlikely to blacklist Pakistan during its annual meetings in Paris but may keep it on its watch list, says a US scholar of South Asian studies. The meetings began on Monday but the plenary session, which will decide whether to keep Pakistan
READ MOREPakistan: Ayub the First0
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- January 20, 2020
Ayub the First – Newspaper – DAWN.COM Asad Rahim Khan January 16, 2020 WRITING on how to live one’s life, American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, ‘Shallow men believe in luck… strong men believe in cause and effect’. Because empires are built on entitlement, so America never tires of hearing about the strong, silent type.
READ MOREKulsoom Hazara is Pakistan’s karate superstar. This is her story0
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- December 23, 2019
Muhammad Asif Khan 23 December 2019 What does karate mean to the young woman from Quetta? She tells all. Nothing is impossible for the girl who lost her parents before her 10th birthday. Her resilience has taken her from strength to strength. Kulsoom Hazara was born in Quetta on September 4, 1988. The youngest of
READ MORE6 dead in protests against India’s contentious citizenship law0
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- December 15, 2019
AFP Updated December 15, 2019 The death toll from violent protests in northeast India against a contentious citizenship law has risen to six, officials said on Sunday, as authorities maintained internet bans and curfews to quell unrest. Tensions remained high at the epicentre of the unrest in Assam state’s biggest city, Guwahati, with troops patrolling the streets in vehicles
READ MOREExplainer: What does India’s new citizenship law mean?0
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- December 13, 2019
DAWN.COM 13 December 2019 Reuters A new Indian law that grants citizenship to persecuted Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians who fled Muslim-majority Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan prior to 2015 has led to violent demonstrations. Indian President Ram Nath Kovind gave his assent to the citizenship bill late on Thursday, signing it into law, an
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Indian couple sentenced for spying on Germany’s Sikhs, Kashmiris0
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- December 12, 2019
AFP December 12, 2019 Dawn A married Indian couple living in Moenchengladbach were sentenced by a German court on Thursday after admitting to spying on Sikh and Kashmiri communities for the Indian secret service. The couple, who are identified only by their first name and initials according to German law, admitted to having passed on
READ MOREPakistan: SC verdict ‘great disappointment’ to those expecting instability due to ‘clash of institutions’: PM0
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- November 28, 2019
Dawn.com November 28, 2019F Minutes after the Supreme Court allowed Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa to stay in his office for another six months, Prime Minister Imran Khan reacted to the top court’s judgement, calling it “a great disappointment to those who expected the country to be destabilised by a clash of institutions”. Taking to Twitter,
READ MOREPolitics: Why is the current Baloch nationalist movement different from the rest?0
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- November 18, 2019
Dr Moonis Ahmer November 18, 2019 Balochistan tends to draw global attention because of its strategic location and enormous mineral resources. And it’s in the spotlight once again due to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Often termed a ‘game changer’, the corridor will stretch from Gwadar (a strategic port in Balochistan) to Kashgar (a city
READ MOREPakistan lauds US commission for becoming voice of Kashmiris ‘brutally silenced by India’0
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- November 16, 2019
Naveed Siddiqui November 16, 2019 The Foreign Office (FO) on Saturday welcomed the hearing of of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the United States Congress on the situation in occupied Jammu and Kashmir, where people are facing movement and communications restrictions for more than 100 days. “Pakistan welcomes the public hearing on human rights in
READ MOREPakistan: THE STRANGE CASE OF THE SILENT WOMEN0
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- November 13, 2019
DAWN.COM In conversations surrounding the ‘forced conversions’ of Hindu girls, the voices of the girls are missing Naeem Sahoutara | Ali Ousat Nov 10, 2019 ‘Forced conversions’ of young girls is an emotive issue within the Hindu community of Sindh. Those accused claim that ‘young love’ is being misrepresented by the community, the media and activists. But
READ MOREPakistan: ‘Historical Guru Nanak palace’ partially demolished by locals in Narowal0
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- May 27, 2019
Abid Mahmood May 27, 2019 The Dawn NAROWAL: A group of locals partially demolished a four-storey centuries-old building allegedly with the connivance of auqaf department officials and even sold its precious windows, doors and ventilators. The building seems to have been constructed over four centuries ago in village Bathanwala, 20 kilometres from here, on New
READ MOREPakistan reaches agreement with IMF, to receive $6 billion over 3 years0
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- May 16, 2019
Dawn.com | Khaleeq Kiani May 12, 2019 The technical teams of the government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have reached an agreement on a bailout package for Pakistan, Adviser to Prime Minister on Finance, Revenue and Economic Affairs Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh announced on Sunday. “After months of discussions and negotiations, a staff-level agreement
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