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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, …

Sep 28: The IMF Executive Board completed the twelfth and final review of Pakistan’s three-year economic reform programme, enabling immediate disbursement of the final tranche of about $102.1 million. About IMF Program The executive board approved a 3-year arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) for Pakistan on Sept 4, 2013 The Facility was about $6.15 billion, or 216 per …

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 …

In April 2016, Waseemullah, a second year student at the Aga Khan School of Nursing, hanged himself from the ceiling fan of his room. According to his friends, he was a lively boy who had come all the way from Gilgit to pursue his studies on a full-term scholarship. Friends say he had a promising career to look forward to. …

FRUSTRATED by Pakistan`s refusal to bow to Indian diktat, encouraged by its strategic partnership with the US, alarmed by the renewed revolt in India-held Jammu and Kashmir and humiliated by the killing of 18 Indian soldiers in Uri, Narendra Modi is on the path of war against Pakistan. He has vowed to `isolate` Pakistan, support Baloch separatists, dam Pakistan`s rivers …

ISOLATION is a word bandied about all too easily when it comes to discussing Pakistan`s place in the international community. In this century alone, seemingly every other year there has been alarmist rhetoric, by external rivals and internal political neophytes that Pakistan is on the verge of global isolation. Indeed, isolation and its more draconian cousin, containment, are issues that …

Shifting alliances The deal with the Russians had been cooking for a while now. The Taliban business, and the ‘wrapping up the war in Afghanistan’ business, not to mention its spillover into Chechnya and Xianyang, had led not just to increased cooperation with Beijing, but also fresh contact with Moscow. This was sometime in the PPP government, when the Russian …

You wake up one morning to the Indian claims that its soldiers had crossed the Line of Control and carried out attacks on Azad Kashmir soil. What comes to your mind immediately? Yeah, after bloody hell. War. Nuclear war. That is exactly what occurred to me. As the day passed by and we saw an intelligent and timely rebuttal by …