Talking Points on the State of Pak Politics
…this article is about making a strong economic case for a technocratic setup, especially when it faces stiff criticism from political pundits and senior politicians. A seasoned politician and the
Nalanda: How the world’s oldest university was lost for 800 years
Nalanda, a renowned Buddhist university was located in Bihar (ancient Magadha). Considered by historians to be the world’s first residential university and among the greatest centers of learning in the
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Why the Godfather of Human Rights Is Not Welcome at Harvard
Kenneth Roth, who ran Human Rights Watch for 29 years, was denied a fellowship at the Kennedy School. The reason? Israel. Michael Massing in The Nation: Soon after Kenneth Roth
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Rumi and the Clock of Shams Tabrizi
by Shadab Zeest Hashmi: A tree in the vicinity of Rumi’s tomb has me transfixed. It isn’t the tree, actually, it is the force of attraction between tree-branch and sun-ray
About the Free Shelter Home in Rawalpindi
A total of 107,746 (more than 1 lakh) needy citizens got free shelter in the last four years at the shelter home set up by former prime minister Imran Khan
“Why Was Everybody Connected to JFK Suddenly Mysteriously Killed”
November 22, 1963- a warm, sunny day in Dallas, Texas. Multiple shots ring out.Moments later, the President of the United States is dead.Two days later, the man responsible was also
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Talking Points: “A Judge Has to Buck the Trend”. More…
Former chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) Jawwad S Khawaja at the launch of his book, Slaughtered without a Knife, at Kitab Ghar Literary Festival on Saturday. “I have written a
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As the World Turns: Dec 2022 DesPardes Report
Without IMF umbrella, strong headwinds ahead for Pak economy…Army chief calls for national consensus — to confront ‘economic & terrorism’ challenges…Huge cache of weapons seized near Pak-Afghan border in Balochistan…
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Five ways the next Cold War will be different
New world order. The structure of the U.S.-China bipolar rivalry will make the next Cold War less stable than the previous one, Jo Inge Bekkevold writes. Arsenal of democracy. After
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The Media Very Rarely Lies
Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten: With a title like that, obviously I will be making a nitpicky technical point. I’ll start by making the point, then explain why I
Parliament
Ideally, of course, “a parliamentary system, or parliamentarian democracy, is a system of democratic governance of a state (or subordinate entity) where the executive derives its democratic legitimacy from its
Do Nothing!
Arthur C. Brooks in The Atlantic writes that absolute idleness is both harder and more rewarding than it seems. In his article “How to Embrace Doing Nothing“, Brooks says “it