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Mani Shankar Aiyer urges India and Pakistan to improve bilateral relations Member of Rajya Sabha and former Indian Union Minister, Mani Shankar Aiyer has urged both India and Pakistan to resolve their disputes and look for the betterment of the masses in South Asia. India and Pakistan have had strained relations since their separation in […]
Police fired guns and used batons on crowds of stone-throwing opposition activists in several Bangladeshi towns Sunday, killing at least three people and injuring more than 100, a news report and doctors at two hospitals said. The opposition party said 1,200 of its activists were arrested, but the figure could not immediately be confirmed. The […]
So, the 24-hour blackout is over and the site returned to normal. Means we can once again use Wikipedia’s free information that United States authorities do not like for their own reasons. Anyway, a question arises, what did Wikipedia’s day-long blackout accomplish? Before going into details, read below the official statement by the Wikipedia […]
Wikipedia has shut down its English-language service for 24 hours protesting against anti-piracy bills that according to critics might amount to censorship. A bleak statement on Wikipedia website states, “Imagine a World without Free Knowledge, for over a decade; we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right […]
Pakistan’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional Arfa Karim is showing signs of improvement after some parts of her brain have showed positive activities on Friday. She was admitted in the Combined Military Hospital (CMCH) in Lahore last week after suffering a severe brain damage leaving her unconscious in a coma since then. Earlier, Arfa’s father, […]
Corporate sector is the main source of income for any country and South Asian sector is not an exception. However, in the past one decade or so, this sector has incurred severe damages because of the negligence from their national governments and the worst case is Pakistan. World Bank’s chief economist for South Asia region […]
The audience however, raised the objection on Ms. Kochhar’s manifesto of “moving away from protecting jobs to protecting workers”. The audience objected that the World Bank should refrain from the propagation of the dogma that labour laws are restricting job creations. The protection of the labour at work and off the pitch is a mandatory […]
India and Pakistan exchange nuclear sites information Pakistan and India Sunday exchanged lists of their respective nuclear installations and facilities as well as lists of prisoners in each other’s custody, as required under bilateral agreements between the two South Asian nuclear neighbours. Senior officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Indian High Commission exchanged […]
Another unkind year for Journalists The previous year was not a kind to those in media. A report revealed by a media outlet stated that working conditions for journalists in Pakistan are becoming more hazardous. This gets multiplies in the backdrop of the ongoing conflict in Balochistan. Pakistan is not alone in being a riskier […]
India urges Pakistan to sign Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT) With Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal a matter of growing global concern, India has pressed Pakistan to enunciate its nuclear doctrine and asked it to join global efforts for concluding the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT). At the expert-level talks in Islamabad earlier this week on nuclear […]
US-Pak relationships to take a limited form US officials believe the country’s relationship with Pakistan has been seriously damaged and a counter-terrorism alliance can survive only in a limited form, The New York Times reported late Sunday. Citing unnamed US and Pakistani officials, the newspaper said officials acknowledge this deterioration will complicate the ability to […]
Regional cooperation for water governance, time for South Asia to sign the ESPOO Islamabad (December 15), on the concluding day of this year’s Sustainable Development Conference by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute in the session on ‘Regional cooperation for water governance, it was highlighted by the experts that all South Asian countries immediately should sign […]
