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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
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Gottlieb played a seminal role in shaping the agency in the 1950s and 1960s. He was also an outlier. Gottlieb, who grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family in the
More than missiles, the display revealed a nation seeking to supplant U.S. as the dominant military and technological power in the Asia-Pacific region. DESPARDES — A carefully choreographed parade by
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JONATHAN SHAW — Pakistan’s image in the West as a lawless place in which no westerner is safe was illustrated by President Trump’s infamous tweet in early 2018, in which
The counter-punch writeup below is heavy and akin to a technical knockout (TKO) for his admirers in the shaken and stirred Tropic of Cancer region. DESPARDES REPORT — Wikipedia presents
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“It takes 3 days to win a battle, and 3 to 30 years to win peace”. The journey has well begun. IRSHAD SALIM — I received an email from a
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For the first time, the impeachment inquiry reached directly into the White House on Friday as Democrats subpoenaed officials about contacts with Ukraine and President Donald Trump signaled his administration
There have been 16 banks failures due to Non Performing Loans (NPLs), which led to Indian Stock Market witnessing loss of $714 billion (Rs 1,00,000 crore) this week– a classic
** Ignoring them would tantamount to the ignorance I experienced with some here: that our real viewers and opinion-holders are actually our huge rural belt and not the non-English speaking
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مختصر سی زندگی ہے جی لو احتیاط سے گھونٹ گھونٹ یہ شراب پی لو احتیاط سے گر کسی کی گفتگو سے ہو گیا کلیجہ چاک در گذر کرو، کلیجہ سی لو احتیاط سے موت
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Meanwhile, Zionism and Hindutva have much in common. They both fiddle with history by deliberately confusing faith and mythology with facts of history. TANVIR AHMAD — WHEN I read Tanya Reinhart’s Israel/Palestine
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