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July 2021 declared the hottest month in history
Wildfires, flooding and droughts point to climate change ...Read MoreAugust 20, 2021 1200 0 -
US, China help Pakistan gear up COVID fight
Pakistan has become one of the first few countries outside the developed world to produce homemade COVID-19 vaccine “PakVac”, a week after Islamabad announced it had successfully accomplished the process of making the preventive medicine with...June 6, 2021 723 0 -
A prayer for coexistence in the time of pandemic
In a typical, non-pandemic year, the Embassy of Pakistan in Washington DC hosts an Interfaith Iftar Dinner during every Ramadan with direct interpersonal interaction and dialogue among people of diverse backgrounds. But this is not a...May 8, 2021 1505 0 -
Love to Live
I saw a bird Flying out of its cage Into the air Full of joy Enjoying its life Spreading a message By its freedom flight Life is love Love of the soul And the soul an...September 3, 2020 706 0 -
What makes me keep hope alive
A few of you reading this may remember my lively blog published from 2006-2008 entitled Ruby Jewsday in which I ruminated on issues I covered in those days as a freelance writer for the New York...July 28, 2020 1504 0 -
Pakistan claims ventilator manufacturing breakthrough amid COVID-19 crisis
Pakistan says it has successfully manufactured inexpensive ventilators that would soon be supplied to the local market amid coronavirus outbreak that has infected more than 200,000 people and claimed thousands of lives. Ventilators are expensive equipment...June 29, 2020 1006 0 -
In reality check, Pakistan reimposes lockdown to contain coronavirus spread
Pakistan‘s government has decided to seal selected areas of various cities from Monday night to help check the spread of the coronavirus as the number of infected people in this part of the world is feared...June 15, 2020 884 0 -
The Battle for Pakistan and the US Relations
“In 2008,” Shuja Nawaz writes in the preface to his recently published book, The Battle for Pakistan: The Bitter US Friendship and a Tough Neighborhood, “I began working on the event that led to The Battle...June 13, 2020 1271 1 -
Coronavirus, locust invasion push Pakistan into negative growth for the first time in 68 years
The twin monsters of coronavirus and locust invasion have pushed Pakistan into negative territory, causing a contraction of 0.38 per cent in growth – something that the country has not witnessed in almost seven decades. Even...June 12, 2020 800 0 -
NYT brings out an artist’s portrayal of painful life in Kashmir lockdown
Much of the world may have had a taste of coronavirus-forced lockdown but for the people of Kashmir another much stricter clampdown– with no access to the Internet, food supplies, and no freedom of expression or...June 12, 2020 765 0
