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Imran Khan addressed the Sialkot rally on Saturday following a day-long tussle with authorities on venue. Khan’s nationwide movement for system change went ahead with its rally -3 hours later,
Continue readingImran Khan at Sialkot Jalsa. ‘Threat’ to His Life.
Pakistan was being run for decades focused on political economy, and continues. The fruits of political economy grew leaps and bounds for political communities and interest groups. At the same
Dan Goodin at Ars Technica: For more than a decade, we’ve been promised that a world without passwords is just around the corner, and yet year after year, this security
Continue readingHow Apple, Google, and Microsoft will kill passwords and phishing in one stroke
While living in an internment camp in Vichy France, Alexander Grothendieck was tutored in mathematics by another prisoner, a girl named Maria. Maria taught Grothendieck, who was twelve, the definition
Continue readingThe Mysterious Disappearance of a Revolutionary Mathematician
University of Florida scientists have managed to grow plants in lunar soil for the first time ever, setting the stage for astronauts to potentially grow their own food on the
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Syed Shabbar Zaidi writes in The Business Recorder: Pakistan is one of the 52 countries facing a severe debt crisis. The most critical problem faced by its economy is repayment
Continue readingLiving Beyond Means Syndrome: Responsibility Lies With the Civil Society
Sri Lanka’s ruling family in fight for survival as crisis worsens: His beloved villa has been daubed in graffiti by protesters, and a museum dedicated to his father ransacked. Now
Continue readingRam Manikkalingam on the situation in Sri Lanka
Yousuf Nazar @YousufNazar on Twitter discusses his 5 point economic plan:#1. Increase gasoline prices, remove tax exemptions/subsidies (for Rs800 billion) for the corporate sector immediately and get $10bn from the
Matthew Wong was a brilliant Canadian painter who died by suicide at the age of thirty-five, just before the start of the pandemic. Largely self-taught, he “spent no more than
Some images of abandoned & deserted places, etc. from all over the world:
By Tomas Pueyo in Unchartered Territories: Europe is geographically much closer to Africa than America. Northern Africa has been part of the Eurasian culture since Alexander the Great conquered Egypt,
Continue readingWhy Europeans Colonized America Before Africa
Khan’s government in November 2021 had allowed overseas Pakistanis (including dual nationals) to cast their ballot: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)-led ruling alliance is all set to undo the provision
Continue readingDual-national overseas Pakistanis can’t vote anymore