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BLAST FROM THE PAST: Dil dhoond raha hai on Binaca Geet Mala. Binaca Geetmala was a weekly countdown show of top filmi songs from Indian cinema. It was popular and
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Nature discards the species that is not supporting and beneficial to the whole…There is a huge noise outside in the world about the the corona virus. What if this virus
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Central Asia is witnessing the new global disorder of the 21st century as it clearly has become and will increasingly become a key global geopolitical arena. The old order has
Pakistani mangoes export increased by 20 percent last year, with expectations that it would be more this year amid institutional hiccups. The ‘King of Fruits’ also landed in the USA
Has the blue sea returned as a dominant theater for geopolitics and geo-economy? Is the Naval/Cyber warfare hybrid a new normal in the making, just as the space? Says a
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IRSHAD SALIM: “I love both these songs. Listen to them…they’re imaginative”, I said to a friend when he asked me on WhatsApp: “What do you think is happening in the
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‘A Bull in a China Shop’ is a person who breaks things or who often makes mistakes or causes damage in situations that require careful thinking or behavior. A cow
IRSHAD SALIM: I penned this poem (below) in the summer of 1973 or 1974 –after reading in the newspaper that several dozen Pakistanis had drowned in the Arabian Sea as
IRSHAD SALIM: I had a mini conversation recently with a Pakistani youth on democracy. As I conversed with Fazal, back in my mind was Socrates, who hated democracy –and around
IRSHAD SALIM: His name is Arshad Sulaihri, an activist of Islamabad-based Aam Aadmi Party (Common Man’s Party) –it’s a coincidence that the party he belongs to and claims to be
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Some objects held aloft by human figures in ancient carvings in #Egypt really do look like large light bulbs. Did the ancient Egyptians have basic understanding of electric lighting? May
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Some of the objects left behind by the people who came before us are truly baffling, and even the world’s greatest scientific minds can’t explain them. Built during the 13th