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India’s Defence Budget 2020-21 Deceptive figures, faulty analyses Amjed Jaaved For year 2020-21, India’s Modi-led BJP government has allocated Indian Rupees (INR) 3,23,053 crore (about $45.8 billion at current exchange rate) for ‘defence services’. This excludes pensions and running of the defence administration—the ministry and the departments so concerned. It is 9.37 percent higher than the budget estimates for 2019-20. …

How to Deal with Failure? Laiba Muhammad Aamir In primary schools, we are all taught the story of a spider that tries again and again to weave a web. The purpose of that story was to make us learn that one should keep on trying again and again unless one achieves one’s goal. It intended to teach us that in …

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Pakistanis who made it to Forbes’ 30 under 30 Asia List for 2020

Changing Regional and Global Dynamics due to Coronavirus Waqas Zulfikar Sangi Humanity has never before confronted a crisis quite like Covid-19, one that has concurrently challenged both the limits of public health systems everywhere and the ability of countries to work together on a shared challenge of transnational security threats. And while its geopolitical, geo-economic, and geostrategic implications are drastically …

Coronavirus and Refugees Far from home and dodging the pandemic Hassaan Bin Zubair “The core principles of refugee protection are being put to test – but people who are forced to flee conflict and persecution should not be denied safety and protection on the pretext, or even as a side effect, of responding to the virus … Securing public health …

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