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Meliorating the Ties<\/span><\/b> Pride of Pakistan <\/span><\/b> 63 Not out FOREVER!<\/span><\/b> Whither Democracy?<\/span><\/b> Opening New Vistas<\/span><\/b> The King Reigns Supreme<\/span><\/b> Our Darkest Hour<\/span><\/b> Capital Punishment Redux<\/span><\/b> Back To Square One?<\/b><\/span> Meliorating the Ties, Pride of Pakistan , Simply the Geniuses, 63 Not out FOREVER!, Whither Democracy?, Opening New Vistas, The King Reigns Supreme, Our Darkest Hour, Capital Punishment Redux, Back To Square One? Meliorating the Ties Nov 19: Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif went on an official visit to the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131,7136],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNov 19: Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif went on an official visit to the US. During the visit, he was conferred on US Legion of Merit Medal for brave leadership, sagacity, vision, efforts for peace and stability in the region.<\/p>\n
\nNov 21: Raniya Hosain, a 15-year-old Pakistani student, was declared winner in the Commonwealth Essay Competition. Her essay about Pakistan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s contribution to the Commonwealth outsmarted 10,000 entries from more than 500 schools in 44 Commonwealth nations.
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\nSimply the Geniuses<\/span><\/b>
\nNov 23: While the scientists around the globe are in search of efficient enzymes that can simplify the process of starch hydrolysis for glucose and maltose production, four scientists from the University of the Punjab discovered a novel thermo-acidophilic enzyme.<\/p>\n
\nNov 27: Australian batsman Phillip Hughes died from an injury to his head, two days after being struck by a bouncer during a domestic first class match.<\/p>\n
\nDec 2: Chan Kin-man, Benny Tai Yiu-ting and Chu Yiu-ming, the original founders of Hong Kong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s prodemocracy Occupy Movement announced they would \u00e2\u20ac\u0153surrender\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by turning themselves in to police and urged protesters on the streets to retreat.<\/p>\n
\nDec 3: A 900-kilometre railway linking Central Asia to the trade routes of the Persian Gulf through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Iran was launched.
\nThe route permits train service from Kazakhstan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s city of Uzen through Turkmenistan to Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Gorgan.<\/p>\n
\nDec 14: Amir Khan won a 12-round bout over former champion Devon Alexander in a welterweight matchup.<\/p>\n
\nDec 16: In the deadliest terror attack in the Pakistan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s history, 131 schoolchildren and 10 other people were killed when heavily armed militants stormed Army Public School in Peshawar. The prime minister announced a three-day national mourning to express solidarity with the families of those who lost their loved ones in the barbaric attack.<\/p>\n
\nDec 17: At the Multi-Party Conference in Peshawar, convened in the aftermath of the savage Taliban attack on the Army Public School, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lifted a moratorium on executions in the country, allowing capital punishment for those sentenced to death in terrorism cases.<\/p>\n
\nDec 24: Pakistan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s political leadership agreed to set up special military courts to try hardened terrorists. The courts, which will be operative for two years, will require a constitutional amendment before they could start functioning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"