DHA Karachi and CBC disparaged wrongly
September 24, 2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
The Pakistan Meteorological Department has confirmed that Karachi received the heaviest rain in a single day in 90 years when 231 mm fell in just 12 h...
Conditions for fruit cultivation are ideal in Pakistan and...
September 11, 2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
Pakistan is climatically capable of growing fruits easily and in abundance. Evidence for the growth of fruit and vegetables in the subcontinent has be...
Army-run NUST shows Pakistan the way forward
September 5, 2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
A public research university under the administration of Pakistan’s Armed Forces, the National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST), w...
The ‘Abraham Accord’
August 20, 2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
On 13th August, 2020 UAE and Israel signed an US-brokered agreement that has come to be known as the ‘Abraham Accord’, implying that the t...
Erdogan’s reclamation of Turkey’s Islamic past is legitima...
August 16, 2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
Thousands flock to perform Eid prayers at Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey on July 31 2020
Situated on the shores of the Bosphorus connecting the...
Opposition parties’ obstructionism is a threat to Pakistan
August 12, 2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
Pakistan is supposedly a parliamentary democracy and a federation. But the rules of functioning for such a set-up have never been understood or applie...
Action of August 5, 2019 presages fresh troubles for Modi...
August 9, 2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
August 5, 2020 is the first anniversary of India’s unilateral declaration of the way it thinks the Kashmir problem should be solved. On 5 August...
Pakistan’s teeming millions are on the verge of a digital...
July 25, 2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
Mass poverty and pandemics are both facts of life which involve millions of people at the same time. The same can be said of relief measures – t...
Kashmiri lives also matter
July 21, 2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
The anti-racism movement, “Black Lives Matter” (BLM) has created a global outcry. In the US, the place of origin of the anti-racism wave,...
Urgent need to de-colonize our minds
July 14, 2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
A marble statue of Christopher Columbus was beheaded in Boston
The corona pandemic and the new social movements created by it has stirred up &nda...
Vested interest outmanoevres the national interest in Paki...
July 9, 2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
One of the most impeding characteristics in Pakistani society is the striving of people to do favours and to get favours in return, whether in cash an...
From India with “Love”!
July 2, 2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
Apologies to Ian Fleming for adapting the title to the situation in Pakistan. Terrorism is back again in Karachi and it is: “From India with lov...
Pakistan must use the new avenues opened by the pandemic
July 1, 2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
While we are still in the middle of this pandemic and our bodies may be blocked partially because of the partial lockdown, our electromagnetic beings...
Pakistan’s federal budget: Desperate circumstances, courag...
June 25, 2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
Pakistan’s economy had already been suffering before the COVID-19 outbreak, it was in no imminent danger of a recession. The Current Accou...
A blueprint for Pakistan’s budget
June 24, 2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
The economy which the Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) government took over in 2018 had been subjected to horrendous mismanagement force-multiplied by r...
The fight against racism post covid-19
Within a very short period the COVID-19 pandemic has broken up economic, social and also intellectual traditions existing for decades and was thought...
State Bank of Pakistan’s Rozgar scheme helps both capital...
June 19, 2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
For the private security services, the Covid-19 pandemic posed multiple problems. The closing down of businesses and industries meant loss of revenues...
Enhancement of cotton textile sector is critical for Pakis...
June 16, 2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
Pakistan’s cotton textile industry is the largest in the country’s manufacturing sector. It accounts for 8.5% of Pakistan’s GDP, emp...
India still to learn lessons from Brooks-Bhagat report on...
Transparency and learning lessons from past mistakes are not virtues in most countries. Even when an inquiry commission is set up to find out what wen...
Border standoff: Indian army knows any aggressive response...
June 4, 2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
Despite the ongoing pandemic hitting India more than China, India has been engaging in blunders like anti-Muslim policies and the Kashmir settlement l...
Mufti Muneeb moon-fighting with Fawad Chawdhry
May 29, 2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
Pakistan has always taken the matter of moon-sighting very seriously. However, the moon-sighting controversy is not Pakistan-specific. Moon-fighting g...
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