In early December, the first shipment of uranium from Cameco, based in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, arrived in India. Part of a $350 million, five-year contract signed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Canada in April, it came with strong symbolic resonance of a relationship that has new energy and could gather more momentum in 2016 with a ...
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The lady in Red Who Unraveled Our Moral Hypocrisy
Anything a religious leader says in the name of Islam against a woman will sell like peanuts in winters So one fine morning you log on to Facebook and find an ad with a lady in red, and people reacting to it. Well that’s not the end of the story; it becomes the hottest topic for debate, like always, for ...
Read More »The Rise of Russia: Dr. Mubarak Ali
It is thrilling and inspiring to read about societies which transformed from the old system to a new one. Generally, the process of change is initiated by students, workers and intellectuals concerned with the backwardness of society that they live in. One example of this change is Russia, which was under the grip of old medieval conservative traditions and customs, ...
Read More »Pak-Afghan Officials Agree to Pursue Talks with Taliban Groups Willing to Join Peace
KABUL: The Afghan and Pakistani officials have agreed to pursue talks with the Taliban groups willing to join peace process, the sources said Sunday. The agreement along with other measures to improve the bilateral relations between the two nations was reached during the Pakistani Chief of Army Staff Gen. Raheel Sharif’s visit to Kabul. The Presidential Palace in a statement said ...
Read More »یار مې هندو زه مسلمان یم! / شاهین بونیری
دا په سوات کې د ژمي د یوې شپې قیصه ده ـــــ د ایلم د غره په سر د واؤرو سپین څادر خور وو او د مرغزار په لمن کې د راتلونکي سپرلي امیدونه په خواږه خوب اوده وو ــــ مونږ د یو ملګري په حجره کې راټول شوي وو ــــــــــ خوا ته د بدهایانو د وختو د یو کنډر ...
Read More »ICC Suspends Yasir Shah After Positive Dope Test
DUBAI: Pakistan’s leg-spinner Yasir Shah was on Sunday provisionally suspended for failing a dope test by the International Cricket Council (ICC). “Shah has been charged with an anti-doping rule violation on a sample he provided in an in-competition test,” an ICC statement announced. “The test, conducted on 13 November 2015, was found to contain the presence of chlortalidone, a Prohibited ...
Read More »Pakistan’s Baloch Activists Take Separatist Battle Online
ISLAMABAD: Images of burned villages and charred bodies, clips of people screaming for help: with a wall of silence hindering traditional media, insurgents are using social networks to present a narrative of violent abuses by security forces in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province. A simple search for “Awaran Operation” on Twitter is enough to reveal dozens of photographs said to be from ...
Read More »US Pursuing Wrong-Headed Policy in Afghanistan: Analysts
WASHINGTON – The United States has been pursuing a wrong-headed policy in Afghanistan and the Middle East for several years, an American political analyst and activist said. Mark Weber, the director of the Institute for Historical Review, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV while commenting on a senior Democratic lawmaker’s proposal that about 10,000 US troops should ...
Read More »Remembering BB
“SHE is no more,” said my daughter over the phone, giving us the tragic news of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination. We were at a recording at Dawn studios. The news was shattering. My worst fears that she may not survive this time had come true. By that time, she had matured into a confident leader. She was clear that Taliban-style terrorism ...
Read More »Afghanistan Defeats Bhutan 3-0 in Second SAFF Championship Appearance
The Afghanistan national football team defeated Bhutan 3-0 in their second match of South Asia Football Federation (SAFF) Championship this evening. Played in Trivandrum International Stadium, the formation of the Afghan team was based on 4-2-3-1, which included four players in defense line, 2 players in defensive halfback, 3 players in the middle line and 1 player in the offensive ...
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