Gossip in Islamabad…
DESPARDES — No, it’s not about relief in fuel prices or reduction in the whopping circular debt, or Qadianis being declared a minority or the Coronavirus pandemic being a bogey
Three and a Half Star In All Homes
IRSHAD SALIM: There appears to be a three-an-a-half star like situation. The Starry Night by Van Gogh, Dance Like an Egyptian song of Bangle Sisters, and lately the hilarious Patriot
Coronavirus Pandemic Could Last For Two Years
DESPARDES — A new report warns the pandemic that has already killed more than 242,000 people likely won’t be contained for two years. The modeling study says that about 70% of
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INSIGHT: Frontloading National Security With Economics the Way Forward
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
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Views of a Psychiatrist From Pakistan on Covid 19 Crisis
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…
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A Woman of Pakistan Origin Sets an Example in New York
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
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John Lennon ‘Imagines’ One World, No Countries …Back in 1971
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
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When Will COVID-19 Pandemic End (Infographics)
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
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THE SHIFT: IMF Suggests Pakistan ‘Debt Management Office’ Instead of Debt Coordination Unit
SoDATA (South Data) — Pakistan’s gross public debt and liabilities have risen to US$210.7 billion (PKR 33.712 trillion) “due to poor performance of the FBR and adverse implications of the
INSIGHT: New World Order on Wreckage of the Old
SYED HASAN JAVED — A lot of people ask me about the likely trajectory of US dollar in view of impending Global financial collapse. Only God alone knows the future.
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#COVID19 UPDATE: Source a ‘Mystery’; Oil Plunges; Germany’s $163Bln Invoice to China
DESPARDES — The UK has reportedly joined US intelligence officials in investigating claims that the coronavirus “COVID-19” originated in a lab and not a wet market in Wuhan city of
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New World Order Can’t Be Built on New Tech Fraud, ‘Webinars’: Find Out Who Said This Exactly 5 Years Ago
DESPARDES — He is a Pakistani. “The rebel in me says: (New World Order) lacks Honesty, Trust and Credibility. These cannot be built through new tech frauds and ‘Webinars’. As