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Pakistan, China to continue backing each other on core issues: FO

Islamabad: The Foreign Office (FO) said on Friday Pakistan and China had agreed to continue supporting each other on their core issues, and there was a complete consensus to accelerate high quality development of China-Pakistan ...

Marching orders

LOS Angeles was ablaze with climate catastrophe-related fires when Donald Trump took oath in January. Now he is fanning another variety of flames by deploying the National Guard and Marines against the wishes of the city and sta...

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Pak-Afghan thaw

In a dramatic development, Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to upgrade their diplomatic relations to ambassador level, signalling a major shift in bilateral ties that had become extremely tense since the return of Afghan Tal...

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Battlefield LA

The disturbing scenes emerging from Los Angeles, one of America’s richest cities, resemble the chaotic events often witnessed in the world’s trouble spots, or ‘Third World countries’ as President Donald Trump calls them....

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Relevance of ‘The Responsibility of Intellectuals’ by Chomsky

In a 1962 article Chomsky wrote that those with knowledge and influence must use their intellect to challenge falsehoods and reveal the truth. Intellectuals, whether scholars, journalists or thinkers, have a duty to question pow...

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Muted mandate: SAARC and the cycle of Indo-Pak escalation

When founded, in 1985, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was envisioned as a platform for regional harmony and collective progress. However, its role in mitigating the most recent escalation between Pa...

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