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A100,000-ton floating dock built by order of Russia by China Beihai Shipyard was successfully delivered to in December. It sailed to the Russian Far East Port and was taken over
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Rashid Husain Syed, a senior member of Islamabad-based Back2School Forum, who is a Toronto-based journalist, consultant, and energy analyst and lived in Saudi Arabia for a quarter of a century
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
The keel laying ceremony of Pakistan’s first of the eight Hangor Class submarines to be built under a “transfer of technology” agreement with China was held in Karachi on Saturday.
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Ghana can’t afford to play the game of borrow-and-bailout…Africa needs a development leader By Noah Smith: So, unfortunately, it’s time for another one of these. By which I mean both
Chinese leader calls for granting Palestine “full membership” in United Nations and says Beijing “supports the two-state solution and the establishment of a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, with
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Shared by Arjumand Hussain: In this exclusive extract from his book “Scoop! Inside Stories from the Partition to the Present”, Kuldip Nayar provides the inside scoop on the thinking of
Continue reading‘Pakistan Changed After Simla Conference Between Z A Bhutto and Indira Gandhi’
Former Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supremo Imran Khan on Sunday said that he has no issue with whoever is appointed as the next army chief, and there will
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Chinese President Xi Jinping met with a number of foreign leaders – including some from US allies and major developing economies – on the first day of the G20 Leaders’
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In 1958, Mao Zedong ordered all the sparrows to be killed because they ate too much grain… Read more here. Honorary contributors to DesPardes: Adil Khan, Ajaz Ahmed, Anwar Abbas,
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To meet fossil fuel demands till 2040, Pakistan has reactivated stalled Saudi & Kuwaiti oil refinery offers in Balochistan. The aim it seems is value-addition than just import of crude/petroleum
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When Josep Borrell spoke of ‘privilege’, did that mean ‘white’ privilege? By Tariq A. Al Maeena at Gulf News: As a child growing up in the family home, I was
Continue readingRacism Row: How Asia and Africa Shaped Civilization