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He has built, at great expense, a narrow-gauge railway between two villages that figured in his childhood and where his family now owns homes. Soccer-obsessed, he also built a large sports stadium near his weekend house. He manipulates news coverage in many ways, including letting cronies snatch control of national media outlets that fell on bad times. When he created …

RIZWANA completed her Intermediate and then, having no other opportunities for jobs that her family would allow her to do, started teaching at a private school near her home. She enjoys teaching. Her family can do with the income she brings, and they felt that this was a good way of keeping her occupied until marriage.   Rizwana leaves for …

T can only be described as regrettable in the extreme. The positions taken by and verbal sparring between the governments of India and Pakistan in the current unhappy climate are a reality. But even more unfortunate is the way in which tensions in the aftermath of the Uri attack have gone beyond the realm of the official and have spilled …

MIDST the clamour of war this past week, the leadership of India and Pakistan at least managed to point in the right direction when talking about the challenges their countries face. That direction is poverty. Between them, India and Pakistan have the dubious honour of having the world`s largest concentration of poor people. In both countries, close to 40pc of …

A look at the batting records Babar Azam achieved during the three-match series against West Indies in UAE 2 Batsmen to score centuries in each match of a three-match ODI series. Babar Azam became the second cricketer to achieve this after South Africa’s Quinton De Kock achieved the feat against India in 2013-14. Azam also surpassed de Kock’s record of …

World Bank proposal was for the three eastern rivers to be ceded to India, in return for funding for dams, barrages and link canal under the ‘Indus Basin Replacement Works’ (IBRW), to transfer surplus water from the western rivers to the canals in north and south Punjab, deprived of the waters of Ravi and Sutlej rivers. Tarbela dam was built …

Lahore—The recently announced result of the Central Superior Services of Pakistan (CSS) gives a clue of the overall deteriorating standard of education in the country as 98% of the candidates failed to pass written test. Every year, thousands of graduates try their luck in the crème de la crème exam of Pakistan to grab a respectable post in the bureaucratic …

Likely Front-Runners Of the 376 candidates this year, 148 are organisations. Russian activist Svetlana Gannushkina Gannushkina has “a long record as an advocate for human rights, democracy and historical reconciliation in Russia and its neighborhood. Ernest Moniz and Ali Akbar Salehi Moniz, the U.S. energy secretary, and Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, were key players …

When the leaders of India, Iran and Afghanistan gathered in Tehran in the spring for a ceremony marking India`s development of a strategic Iranian port, they recited Persian poetry and said their partnership would `alter the course of history` On a recent visit, roughly 13 years after India first agreed to develop the port of Chabahar, a single ship floated …

Political corruption and its fall out is again the centre of discussion, with threats to ‘shut down’ Islamabad and generally create chaos. Of course, corruption has an extremely negative impact on the working of any country and governance within it, but corruption at the top of the pyramid also has a far wider effect on shaping the nature of society …