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IRSHAD SALIM — There’s a new normal everyone realizes but may have found it difficult or finding it hard to tell what it looks like and what a new order
Continue readingINSIGHT: Frontloading National Security With Economics the Way Forward
DESPARDES — An Indian-Muslim from Kerala was left aghast — and is still upset — after his prospective employer in Dubai wrote back chiding him for looking for work and
DESPARDES REPORT — On Tuesday, Dawn reported that “Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and others “cannot stand by and let another Gujarat
Continue readingINDIA SITUATION: ‘Cannot Stand By and Let Another Gujarat Happen’
ARUN DEAN — This novel discusses a Mayan sacred manuscript that was written around 600 B.C., and the search for it in the Peruvian rain forest. Author James Redfield says:
DR. MOWADAT RANA — Pandemic means (Pan: all, demos: people) we all will meet Covid-19 in the next one and a half season no matter what we end up doing…
Continue readingViews of a Psychiatrist From Pakistan on Covid 19 Crisis
IRSHAD SALIM — A note (below) being shared about a family in Brooklyn, New York I’ve been up, close and personal with for decades. It’s a model family I’m proud
Continue readingA Woman of Pakistan Origin Sets an Example in New York
DESPARDES — Renowned classical singer Shruti Sadolikar Katkar offered her tributes to subcontinent’s greatest classical singer Begum Akhtar sahiba at her tomb — rendering one of her classics that say
SoDATA — Saudi Binladin Group (SBG) has hired an investment bank to advise on its $15 billion debt rescheduling plan. Bloomberg reported, citing a statement from Binladin International Holding Group,
Continue readingSaudi Binladin Hires Investment Advisor, CEO as It Plans $15 Bln Debt Restructuring
Woman forcibly quarantined inside school in Jaipur gang-raped by 3 youths An Indian woman was allegedly gang-raped in a school in the desert state of Rajasthan where she had been
Continue readingIndian Woman Gang-Raped After Being Quarantined Alone
IRSHAD SALIM — Neither wars (under different pretexts) nor peace through the UN or bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral agreements have succeeded to bring us all together over the decades, and COVID-19
Continue readingJohn Lennon ‘Imagines’ One World, No Countries …Back in 1971
SoDATA (South Data) — A data-driven estimation of end dates indicate that the impact of COVID-19 pandemic may end in Pakistan on or about June 6. There are over 11,900
Continue readingWhen Will COVID-19 Pandemic End (Infographics)
There have been 131 deaths and 4,689 infections in the last 47 days; The government has announced a US$ 11.60-billion relief/stimulus package UNB — Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on
Continue readingB’desh Calls For Collective Responsibility, Partnership to Fight Covid-19