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Modi refuses oxygen supplies from Pakistan as COVID takes more Indian lives
A milestone on the Indian side of Wagah-Attari border shows Pakistani city of Lahore just 22 km away, Image: Satdeep Gill via Wikimedia Commons Even as more Indians lose lives to COVID-19, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi...May 19, 2021 547 0 -
Diplomacy: Pakistan’s say on the Middle East conflict
Last week, Prime Minister Imran Khan condemned Israel and strongly affirmed Pakistan’s support of Palestinians in the ongoing conflict. In a statement, Khan referred to the Palestinians’ “legitimate struggle for rights” and promised to mobilize the...May 18, 2021 609 0 -
Will Pakistan and India choose to be allies in the post-COVID world?
Akbar Ahmed, Pawan Bali It is a more recent tale of two letters: On Pakistan’s 70th National Day, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi penned a note to his Pakistani counterpart, expressing the desire for a...Apr 25, 2021 756 0 -
Pakistan voices solidarity as COVID deaths soar in India
India continues to face record numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths as a torrid wave of the coronavirus pandemic tested the limits of its healthcare system. In the last three days, India, the second worst-hit country...Apr 24, 2021 661 0 -
Will Pakistan, India try something new to revive key regional ties?
For a while, a breakthrough in ossified Pakistan-India relations seemed well underway. Signs of a rapprochement began with a late February reinstitution of a long-dormant cease-fire agreement along the Line of Control, the de facto border...Apr 6, 2021 1883 0 -
Pakistan embarks on eight new water projects
In a bid to ensure optimal utilization of its ever depleting water resources, Pakistan has embarked upon building eight mega hydel projects that would help double its water storage capacity. Officials say the new dams will...Mar 23, 2021 506 0 -
Massive earthquake jolts Pakistani, Indian cities
A severe earthquake rocked upper half of Pakistan including the capital, Islamabad and provinces of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhawa. The 6.4-magnitude earthquake also jolted in cities of neighboring India late Friday evening. The Meteorological Department said...Feb 12, 2021 1035 0 -
Two books open windows into the Pakhtoon culture and history
By Sahibzada Riaz Noor The tradition of scholar-administrators in British India did dwindle after partition, but totally extinct it did not become. Despite the censorious cavilling about civil servants from various quarters for being high browed mandarins...Dec 23, 2020 1377 0 -
Chomsky emphasizes importance of science to Pakistan’s future
Noam Chomsky, a leading intellectual of the contemporary world, has reminded Pakistan that its future lies in scientific development, and not religious superstition. “Pakistan used to have an advanced scientific establishment, Nobel Prize laureates and so...Dec 8, 2020 742 0 -
Trump calls China, India filthy in final debate with Biden
Contrasting the United States’ climate scenario with other countries, President Donald Trump termed China and India as ‘filthy’ as he pitched his record to American voters for reelection in Nov. 3 polls. “We have the best...Oct 23, 2020 615 0