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Reviewed by: Peter Oborne The crisis in North Africa and the Middle East has driven Pakistan out of the headlines, but this is surely only a temporary lull. Cursed by nuclear weapons, home to al-Qaeda, victim of several raging insurgencies and a chronically unstable political structure — most Western experts continue to view Pakistan as the most dangerous country in …

For feedback and suggestions, please write to us at: editorjwtmag@gmail.com; editor@jworldtimes.com NEW CHIEF MINISTER BALOCHISTAN Nawab Sanaullah Zehri, who belongs to the PML-N, has recently taken over as the new Chief Minister of the Balochistan province. If we have a glance over his background, it dawns on that he is not a good choice for the coveted slot. My question …

Pakistan Army has been ranked as the 11th strongest military in the world, as per a Credit Suisse report on globalisation. Ranked seven spots after India’s military, the report gives Pakistan a final military strength score of 0.41. Further, the report reveals that Pakistan has more weaponry than Germany, Australia and Canada. The report ranks the strength of 20 countries …

A CONFRONTATION WAITING TO HAPPEN Nov 24: The Russian Sukhoi Su-24, an all-weather attack aircraft, was shot down by Turkish F-16s in the Turkey-Syria border area in one of the most serious publicly acknowledged clashes between a NATO member country and Russia for half a century. Russia’s defence ministry announced suspension of military cooperation with Turkey and  cancelled foreign minister’s …

For feedback and suggestions, please write to us at: editorjwtmag@gmail.com; editor@jworldtimes.com IMPORTANCE OF READING NEWSPAPERS The main conveyor of news is a newspaper. Though news may come from many other sources like magazines and books i.e. the print media; and radio, TV channels and the Internet i.e. the electronic media; besides the old methods of getting news as from word …

Physiology or Medicine Winners: William C. Campbell (Ireland) & Satoshi Omura (Japan) and Tu Youyou (China) The first half of the Nobel Prize for Medicine 2015 was awarded to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Omura for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites. The second half went to Tu Youyou for her discoveries concerning a …

The number of people living in extreme poverty worldwide will likely fall to under-10% of the global population in 2015, a new World Bank report recently predicted. That is down from 37.1% in 1990 and means the world is moving closer to a goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030. However, an estimated 900 million people still live on less …

While delivering the Hajj sermon in Masjid-e-Nimra at Maidan-e-Arafat, where this year around two million pilgrims gathered to perform Hajj, Saudi Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz urged Muslims to make all efforts to spread the real message of Islam. Following are some key takeaways from his Hajj 2015 sermon:

Ending a Long Deadlock Sep 16: Nepalese lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to approve a new constitution that will turn the former Himalayan monarchy into a secular, multiparty democracy. The passage was the culmination of a long-running process that started seven years ago after the end of a Maoist insurgency. Reinvigorating Kashmir Issue Sep 27: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif formally raised issue …