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Portal To Peace: Gurudev Tagore, Bard Of Bengal - I

Pakistan, Sept. 24 -- In late 1961, when I joined Birmingham University in the UK as an undergraduate, I was selected as part of the cast of students performing the play The Post Office by Rabindranat... Read More


Pakistan's FM Ishaq Dar Urges UN Security Council: "Time For Action Is Now" On Gaza Crisis

Pakistan, Sept. 24 -- New York: Pakistan's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar, delivered a powerful address at the United Nations Security Council today, urging urg... Read More


It Is Virtually Impossible To Get Bored In Hawaii

Pakistan, Sept. 23 -- Last month, we visited Hawaii for the 40th time since our first visit in 1992. Hawaii was admitted to the US in 1959, becoming the 50th state. It has the fourth smallest landmas... Read More


Smuggling, Scams And Cover-Ups: FBR's Deepening Customs Crisis

Pakistan, Sept. 23 -- A news item in a leading newspaper alleging a revenue loss of Rs100 billion due to the launch of the Faceless Customs Assessment (FCA) system has been thoroughly rebutted by the ... Read More


Urban Flooding Exposes Pakistan's Fragile Cities And Failed Drainage Systems

Pakistan, Sept. 23 -- The recent rains and urban flooding in Pakistan have once again raised the question of how vulnerable our major cities are to natural disasters and environmental stresses. From K... Read More


A Sociological Lens On Pakistan's Politics: Class, Authority, And Development

Pakistan, Sept. 23 -- In Pakistan, local, constituency-level social structures, particularly the economic relations between classes and the forms of authority they sustain, offer a better guide to the... Read More


The Riyadh Pact: Pakistan And Saudi Arabia's New Mutual Defence Alliance

Pakistan, Sept. 23 -- In September 1955, Pakistan joined the Baghdad Pact, a mutually assured defence agreement of Iraq, Turkey, and the UK, with Iran joining later. That alliance would eventually evo... Read More


Why India Declined Pakistan's Strategic Restraint Regime

Pakistan, Sept. 22 -- Pakistan's potential adversary, India, long ago tested its nuclear weapon capability in 1974, the so-called peaceful nuclear explosion. When India tested its nuclear weapons agai... Read More


From Persecuted Jews To Asia's Muslims Today

Pakistan, Sept. 22 -- Across parts of Asia, whole communities are being pushed out of nations where they have lived for centuries. In Myanmar, the Rohingya are branded as foreigners, though their root... Read More


Anosh Ahmed Honors His Father's Memory With Spiritual Mehfil-e-Milad Gathering

Karachi, Sept. 22 -- Businessman and philanthropist Anosh Ahmed organized a grand Mehfil-e-Milad at the Karachi Press Club to mark the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). The event, held in ... Read More