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National Oct 05: Babar Azam hit his third successive hundred to steer Pakistan to a 3-0 clean sweep of the ODI series against West Indies. Batsmen who score 3 successive 100s: Zaheer Abbass and Saeed Anwar (Pakistan) Herschelle Gibbs, AB de Villiers and de Kock (South Africa) Ross Taylor (New Zealand) Oct 05: Pakistan officially invited the Russian Federation to …

National Oct 04: The White House shut down an ongoing petition, hosted on a White House web page called “We the People,” that sought to designate Pakistan a state sponsor of terrorism. Oct 04: The 3rd session of the EU-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue was held in Brussels, Belgium. About the Dialogue The EU-Pakistan ad hoc Summits were held in 2009, 2010 …

London — Twenty thousand Englishmen baying at the enemy. Screaming themselves hoarse, urging their champion to strike flesh. And then, it happens: The enemy is hit. Yes! Unwilling to show pain, he removes his helmet. Blood — the sight most keenly craved for — trickles down. His entourage runs to assist him — he attempts nonchalance, but concussion is an …

The Interpreter By AMANDA TAUB and MAX FISHER The voters of the world have had quite a year: They rejected Colombia’s peace deal; split Britain from the European Union; endorsed a Thai Constitution that curtails democracy; and, in Hungary, backed the government’s plan to restrict refugees, but without the necessary turnout for a valid result. Each of these moves was …

THERE is no dispute on the fact that the Sundarbans, a unique world heritage site and a lifesaver for the coastal people, is in grave danger, with or without the planned construction of the Rampal coal-based power plant. Since the 1940s, the mangrove forest area has shrunk by three-quarters from around 40,000 square-kilometres to 10,000 sq-kms with 6,000 sq-kms within …

THERE is something to be said for strategic ambiguity. India’s claim of a surgical strike across the Line of Control (LoC) in divided Kashmir has been met with Pakistani denial. At least one side is being economical with the truth, although it may well in fact be both. Perhaps it is just as well. The announced Indian incursion last Thursday …

National Oct 03: In a meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan’s political parties called for more aggressive diplomatic forays to highlight Indian atrocities against the Kashmiris. Main Points of the Communiqué It was unanimously resolved to: Support Kashmirs’ right to self-determination as guaranteed to them in UNSC resolutions. Condemn killings of Kashmiris – a grave violation of human …

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 …