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Three AP photographers win Pulitzer for their images of Kashmir crackdown
The featured image above is one of the AP photos Pultizer has displayed in announcing award for three photographers in featured photography. The image by Dar Yasin shows women shouting slogans as Indian policemen fire teargas...May 5, 2020 953 0 -
Pakistan’s wheat potential beyond bumper harvest
By Dr Bettina Robotka and Ikram Sehgal With a population of more than 200 million people, more than half of which are living below or close to the poverty line, the production and distribution- of...Apr 30, 2020 2187 1 -
Imran Khan launches initiative to engage overseas Pakistani health professionals
The Imran Khan Government has launched a new initiative to encourage Pakistani expatriate health professionals’ voluntary participation toward improvement in the key health area, currently on the forefront of the fight against coronavirus. Named Pakistan Diaspora...Apr 26, 2020 940 0 -
Pakistan allows clinical testing of locally manufactured ventilators
Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC), a top regulator of engineering services, has allowed the testing of domestically produced ventilators to help provide treatment to the COVID 19 patients as the life-saving equipment faces worldwide shortages. A special...Apr 12, 2020 604 0 -
Pakistani manufacturers team up to make ventilators locally amid coronavirus crisis
Responding to an increasing demand for ventilators in the face of fast-spreading coronavirus, Pakistan‘s auto-part manufacturers have started work on local production of the medical equipment. “We have designed the ventilator, and will come up with...Apr 1, 2020 1541 0 -
Social distancing in the age of coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic is disrupting people’s day-to-day life like no other challenge in recent decades as the U.S. tries to contain it’s spread. The preventive measures against COVID-19 have impacted individuals and families from one corner...Mar 18, 2020 753 0 -
Key ways U.S., Pakistan can boost their trade and investment ties
By Marvin Weinbaum and Syed Mohammad Ali Improving currently under-performing bilateral trade and investment is perhaps the single most effective means by which the two nations can better converge their interests and demonstrate the practical value...Mar 8, 2020 2864 0 -
Cambridge and Seattle cities ask India to repeal citizenship law
The City Council of Cambridge, Massachusetts has unanimously passed a resolution, asking India to repeal the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act that excludes Muslims from becoming a citizen under a new plan. Cambridge, the seat of learning...Feb 14, 2020 563 0 -
Pakistan needs exciting and meaningful homegrown solutions to economic troubles – Mossadaq Chughtai
Despite many efforts, recent nominal upsurge in direct foreign investments and Pakistan’s current macroeconomic indicators have not earned confidence of the business community, a leading entrepreneur said Instead of making tall claims, the government should introduce meaningful...Feb 7, 2020 1530 0 -
How Pakistan can fuel its future with electric vehicles
The prospect of electric vehicles running cleanly on roads and highways with zero emissions looks great – something like a pleasing sight of Elon Musk’s noiseless Tesla vehicles. In Pakistan, the goal of having such vehicles...Feb 3, 2020 1315 0