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TURKEY`S massive post-coup purge shows no signs of abating. In fact, the targets of President Erdogan`s wrath only seem to be increasing. On Tuesday, nearly 13,000 police officers were suspended for alleged links to Mr Erdogan`s arch-nemesis, US based cleric Fethullah Gulen, while a Kurdish TV station was shut down. Moreover, the three-month state of emergency declared in Turkey af …

The right-wing government of India is bent on accusing Pakistan of terrorism and militancy. After facing diplomatic failure in its smear campaign against Pakistan, the supremacist BJP has lately displayed its inclination to employ water as a weapon against Pakistan. In this context, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi convened a special meeting of top Indian water experts on September 26 …

IT appears the bouquet of power-sector projects under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor has hit a number of road blocks of late. The latest in a series of snags that these projects have run into is the Matiari to Lahore transmission line, the first private-sector initiative in power transmission that Pakistan has seen. The line is vital to the overall CPEC …

The city of Karachi is known as the city of lights and a city that never goes to sleeps. Another prominent feature of Karachi is the shrine of Abdullah Shah Ghazi. This year the city celebrated the 1,286th three days ‘Urs’, at the birth anniversary of saint Syed Abdullah Shah Ghazi, from 23 to 25 September. A large number of …

Tribal women in Kurram Agency continue to be a commodity even today under the age-old tribal customary law known as Turizona. They are categorised as ‘married,’ ‘virgin,’ ‘widow’ and ‘abducted’ with each one of them carrying a different price tag. Turizona, an initiative undertaken in 1931 by Maj Ross Hurst, the then political agent of Kurram Agency, categorises women in …

Sr# No Index Organisation 1. Child Development Index Save the Children 2. Corruption Perceptions Index Transparency International (TI) 3. Democracy Index Economist Intelligence Unit 4. Ease of doing business index World Bank Group 5. Education Index UNDP 6. EF English Proficiency Index EF Education First 7. Environmental Democracy Index (EDI) The Access Initiative (TAI) and the World Resources Institute(WRI) 8. Environmental Performance …

World Heart Day is celebrated on September 29 every year. The Day was founded in 2000 to inform people that heart disease and stroke are the world’s leading causes of death, claiming 17.3 million lives each year. The number of deaths per year due to CVD, according to the WHF, is more than the number of deaths due to cancer, …

Oct. 3 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Oct. 4 Nobel Prize in Physics Oct. 5 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Oct. 6 (possible date) Nobel Prize in Literature Note: According to tradition, the exact date for this prize is only announced shortly before it is presented. However, it very often falls on the Thursday ahead of the peace prize.) Oct. …

The military high command has sent the prime minister the dossiers of four main contenders. Lieutenant General Javed Iqbal Ramday Lieutenant General Javed Iqbal Ramday is currently the commander of XXXI Corps. Previously, he was the President of the National Defence University (NDU). He led a 2009 operation to drive the Pakistani Taliban militant movement from Swat Valley near the …

Gen Raheel Sharif has become perhaps the most popular military chief in Pakistan. What`s interesting is that his status in this respect has risen parallel to a popularly elected government headed by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif`s PML-N. Theoretically such an arrangement is beneficial for a country now fighting a complex battle against certain ogres that were allowed to mutate and …