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Specter of Nixon looming over Republican Party…Democrats going public with impeachment investigation…Televised hearings… MAULANA’S AZADI MARCH: Opposition parties bicker over Islamabad rally timing… Russia Director Leaving White House…BOLTON SET TO
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Pakistan seeks ‘continuity in democracy’ while espousing ‘enduring stability’ in the region. ‘These make the twin-wheeler going forward amid diversity it always had,” said an insider. DESPARDES — India’s RAW
Continue reading‘Threat’ to Maulana and ‘Azadi March’: Punjab Issues Terror Alert
Hariri resigns…Crowd erupts in joy…PICS… Traders continue with their country-wide strike…Talks with Khan govt fail…3.5 million outside the tax net, only 392,000 paying taxes… Federal ministers clash in the cabinet
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Peace, is the “surprise” in Pakistan’s armory that has put Delhi in a check-mate, observers say. The art festival is another bud in the bouquet called “enduring stability”. DESPARDES —
Continue reading‘Dialogue Between Tradition & Modernity’: Intl. Art Festival in Islamabad
Lebanon PM Saad Hariri resigns; crowd erupts in joy…PICS… Nawaz given bail for 8 weeks on medical grounds –by Islamabad court… Record 67.3 million speak foreign language at home in
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IRSHAD SALIM — Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has reportedly allowed a delegation of 30 European Union (EU) Members of Parliament (MPs), drawn mainly from extreme right-wing parties, to be
The Ku Klux Klan is slowly rising again… Pakistan snubs India’s request to use airspace for Modi’s flight to Saudi Arabia… California declares state of emergency over wildfires, winds… Thousands
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DESPARDES — “Wishing all our Hindu citizens a happy Diwali,” Prime Minister Imran Khan tweeted on Saturday as they celebrated the occasion– sign of re-emerging interfaith harmony which the civil-military
Continue readingDIWALI: Pakistan’s Unity in Diversity Re-emerges
More evidence of cover-up of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan… Pakistani business tycoons offer to take over multi-trillion dollar Reko Diq copper and gold mines… Why Pakistan’s New Energy Proposal
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LATEST: As many as a million Chileans protested on Friday in the capital Santiago in the biggest demonstrations yet since violence broke out a week ago in the South American
Continue readingSurge in Protests Around the World in October; Common Factor Uniting Them?
DESPARDES — Nearly US$100,000 as daily income (US$20 per visit of 5000 pilgrims to Kartarpur) the government of Pakistan is expected to earn to pay for its expenses in handling
Continue readingKartarpur Corridor Would Add More Than $150m to Pakistan’s Religious Tourism Economy
DESPARDES (UPDATED): The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday granted bail to former premier Nawaz Sharif on medical grounds from the custody of the accountability watchdog. Bail has been granted in