Monthly Archives: July 2022
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Afghanistan Earthquake kills 1,000 people, deadliest in decades Afghan earthquake survivors lack food, shelter as aid trickles in GAYAN, Afghanistan (AP) A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday 22 June, flattening stone and mud-brick
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Exit from FATF grey list: Pakistan so close, yet so far (18 Jun, 2022) ISLAMABAD: The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Friday acknowledged that Pakistan has substantially completed all 34 items of the two separate action plans, bringing it nearer
The terror factory in Afghanistan
By Hiranmay Karlekar Will Afghanistan again become an exporter of global terrorism? My answer, an emphatic “yes”, will trigger sharp protests. Many perhaps will cite some of what Zabiullah Mujahid, Deputy Minister for Culture and Information and official central spokesman
Jacinda sees a bit of Benazir in herself
By Anwar Iqbal Paying homage to the late Benazir Bhutto, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern recalled what the first woman to lead a Muslim majority country had proposed 30 years ago, an association of states to protect democracy and
The Perfect Storm
Only a sustained and united national effort can extricate Pakistan from this dangerous situation By Zamir Akram Pakistan is confronted by a Perfect Storm the lethal combination of toxic internal and external developments that are inextricably linked to pose grave
Why Pakistan’s situation is reflection of decline of the Mughal power?
By Saleem Akhtar Malik When we compare the twilight years of the Mughal rule in India with what is happening in Pakistan today, we find centrifugal forces like the TTP, BLA, BRA, and Jiye Sindh, etc. challenging the authority of
Analyzing the Pakistani ambassador to Russia’s Valdai club speech
By Andrew Korybko Russia and Pakistan have learned from their histories, he remarked, and his country is committed no longer participating in Great Power rivalries like during the Old Cold War. Taking a positive page from history, however, it now
The world economy
By Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati The Japanese save a lot. They do not spend much. Also, Japan exports far more than it imports. It has an annual trade surplus of over US$100 billion. Yet the Japanese economy is considered weak, even
Reports of OPEC+ death are greatly exaggerated
By M. K. Bhadrakumar The fact that the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states held a joint ministerial meeting with their Russian counterpart Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Saudi capital of Riyadh at this point in time in global
We may finally understand the moments before the big bang
Physicists may have solved a decades-long mystery about how our universe came to be By Tim Childers There’s a hole in the story of how our universe came to be. First, the universe inflated rapidly, like a balloon. Then, everything