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In the last seven days, I happened to go through two books; one, “A Promised Land” by Barack Hussain Obama, former president of the USA and second, “Honour among Spies” by Lieutenant General Asad Durrani (retired), former head of Pakistan’s Inter Service Intelligence. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3hzB9QR

As January 20th approaches, the world awaits the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/385KnBA

A few days ago, the EU’s Disinfo Lab revealed that India has been trying to malign Pakistan, portraying it in dismal colours before the international community by generating and propagating false and fake news through a network of 750 fake media outlets and 550 website domain names in 162 countries. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/34Wmlqn

Mir Gul Khan Naseer was a prominent Balochi politician, poet, historian and journalist. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/2X2ipjy

Since the birth of Pakistan, the only country that has been the major hurdle in the way of the development of Pakistan is India. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3rIrsEn

Yesterday I saw an advertisement about a local mattress company depicting a daughter marrying off a mother. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3hrYaFy

As a calendar year ends and a new year arrives, we often take time to reflect on the past, what we did and didn’t do, and what will be different and hopefully better in the coming year. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/2L5qlOy

“[Eqbal Ahmad] brought wisdom and integrity to the cause of the oppressed. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3o6icIi

The Prime Minister last week was brave enough to concede that incoming governments—including his—should be better prepared when assuming power. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3pzZAk5

Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party had come to power with the avowed purpose of conquering colonies and foreign lands for the Germans. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3nUChRA

The ‘bombshell’ by EU Disinfo Lab at the year-end 2020 shows an incredible ecosystem that goes far beyond the ‘disinformation’ alone. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3huyLLy

“Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man’s greatness and establish a dialogue between civilisations showing the extent to which human beings are linked. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/34RCduA

The Iron Lady of Great Britain, Mrs Margaret Thatcher used this term after meeting with her senior bureaucrats. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/34ORNqC

Imran Khan’s ‘interview’ to Hamza Ali Abbasi discussed a breadth of topics ranging from accountability, education to the adverse impacts of colonisation. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3nRKt54

“Sometimes, I feel anxious while coming to school,” says primary school student Sadia. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3nWfg0H

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3pvwORz

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), has resulted in more than 74 million reported cases and over 1. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/37PSq58

Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s, the founder of Pakistan, birth anniversary is being celebrated once again on December 25, 2020 by the ever-grateful nation. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3hkJMPg

The father of fake news and propaganda, Joseph Goebbels—the Nazi minister of propaganda—famously said that if you repeat and tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth for everyone. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3mSTzNB

“I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3ryCWu3

Textile exports have been a major source of foreign exchange for Pakistan. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3aJH2JT

The first half of the twenty first century will bring in dramatic transformation of a unipolar world order, administered primarily by the US, to a multi-polar world order, managed by the US, Russia, and China. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/37RhfOo

What if the largest secular and federal state, proclaimed to be a flag-bearer of liberal democracy—having the seventh largest landmass, the fifth largest economy and 70 percent literacy rate—resorts to a negative, regionally intriguing, internationally unlawful and globally dangerous course? What if it falsely propagates against. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/37P3cZq

On September 18, 1960, Fidel Castro visited New York as a speaker at the United Nations General Assembly. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3mZIx9D

Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876-1948) was a leader of unique and extraordinary qualities of head and heart, who acquired the miraculous achievement of the creation of a separate and free homeland—Pakistan, for the millions of Muslims in the subcontinent. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3hh1HGy

Since 1995, the trade deficit has been fermenting. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/38vlKNy

I would like to narrate a fact sheet on the investigation and current position of the Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto murder case in response to various questions in the media wherein a false impression is being created that the PPP government did not get the case of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto investigated. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3hgGPPT

“I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/37OzCmZ

The Pakistani nation is celebrating the 145th birth anniversary of its benefactor and founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah today, befittingly called Quaid-i-Azam (the greatest leader) for converting the dream of separate homeland for Muslims into a political reality against unsurmountable odds and staunch resistance to the idea by both the. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3aCPoTL

Imagine yourself in the university examination room solving the objective question paper of your midterm exam. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3hfnI8C

Today is Christmas Day and I shall draw attention to one of the best-known Christmas carols, “Oh, Holy Night”, written by Placide Cappaeu as a poem in 1841, completed in 1847, entitled “Minuit, Chrètiens”, “Midnight, Christians”, also known as “Cantique de Noël”, “Chant of. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/34IMnxp

“The holocaust illustrates the consequences of racism, prejudice and stereotyping on a society. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3hfwXpi

The state-sponsored Sikh genocide in 1984 remains one of the most blood-curdling episodes of carnage in modern history. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3hgxmIe

I recently attended my cousin’s wedding. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/38B7H9n

Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others have given a new definition to the term “connected” whereby we are always connected and inundated with data and information from around the globe. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/2WJIhkm

“Hunger is the best sauce in the world. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/2JkVcWO

Pakistanis have been confronted with the double menace of high interest rates and high inflation for quite some time now. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3plvS2j

In the second week of November, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif visited Pakistan on a two-day visit. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/34CY20A

It was a similar sort of situation like the one portrayed in the 1965 film ‘The Flight of the Phoenix. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/2Ks5sNi

“Hope is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but, rather, an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3pj426M

A society in which inhumanity becomes the norm is in serious turmoil. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/37CMooo

East Pakistan died on December 16, 1971, at the Paltan Maidan in Dacca (now spelled as Dhaka). from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3axRdBl

There was a time when Pakistan’s economy was trending and had no comparison in growth. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3h8InLt

“My music and my lyrics are essentiallyemotional postcards. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/34zeeQJ

The vitality of capitalism is premised on markets that do not exhibit distortionary behaviours, such as cartel behaviour and mass tax evasion. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3aAvrwZ

The Internet or the World Wide Web (www) became a globally popularised system during the 1990s. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/34vCKBU

Pakistan came into being on the basis of the two-nation theory which stated that the Muslims and Hindus are entitled to two separate nations as they belong to two different religious philosophies, customs and traditions. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/2KG4ZqE

“We knew that there was a nationally coordinated effort to wipe out the Black Panther Party and to wipe out the militant Black movement in general. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3mC7S99

The West Asian region, also referred to as the Middle-East is significant due to its geographical location and proximity to continents and countries—South Asia, Central Asia, Europe and Africa. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/34un0za

While the coronavirus shows no signs of subsiding, the confrontation between the government and opposition keeps heating up. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3ap1oYZ

Prime Minister Imran Khan, along with several members of his political party, have argued in favour of holding the upcoming Senate Elections through ‘open ballot’—ostensibly for the purposes of shunning the abhorrent practice of electoral horse-trading in the upper house of our bicameral legislature. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3aFmmmD

“A guitar is more than just a sound box. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3pdPchT

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) session, held in Niamey Niger, has unanimously adopted a resolution condemning India’s illegal action of revoking Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir’s (IIOJK) autonomous status and its various steps to change the demography of the Muslim-majority region. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3p2T8BS

The commencement of commercial operations of the state-of-the-art Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (commonly known as KANUPP-2 or K-2) of 1,145 Megawatts of electricity in the next year has been declared another milestone in national energy security and economic progress. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3r4Yb6N

Over the past one week, our honourable Prime Minister and his cabinet have been congratulating themselves for a Rs21 drop in the price of sugar. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3pc10RP

“Have no fear of perfection; you’ll never reach it. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3asFMe6

There is a proverb saying “happy is the nation which has no history”, but Pakistan has a history: A history of treachery and betrayal of the objectives of the creation of a separate homeland; a history of flouting and undermining the vision of the founder father; a history of pummelling the constitution and governing through. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/2KFkkri

Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto’s (SMBB) assassination had left the whole nation in tears and the whole world in unfathomable shock. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3p65BEK

Year 2020 has been different in so many ways. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/37rZMvC

“To resolve all Indian problems and especially Hindu-Muslim differences on purely religious basis cannot produce any permanent path to salvation. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/34p4YOW

The Commerce Ministry is advising one and perhaps rightly so that Pakistan’s exports are on an uptake, especially textiles, where Faisalabad is leading the way both in terms of investment and onward export bookings. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3h1A58f

A few days ago, a client of mine who is seeking couples counselling expressed her distress over the monotony of the household chores she has to do everyday. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/37qAWMI

EU DisinfoLab reports published between December 9 and 11 have exposed the Indian fake news and disinformation network. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3nmUp6m

“Global arrogance is not satisfied with the Islamic Revolution’s success because it is quite aware of the fact that our victory would result in the globalisation of Islam. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/2Wk2JrG

My grandfather was a Colonel of the fighting arm of Pakistan Army. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/2Wn5jgo

On December 16, 1971, I was only 10 years old but vividly remember my late father striking his fists on the wall with tears pouring out from his eyes. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3gSZqkx

In the 1970 general elections, Mujib’s Awami League won almost all seats in East Pakistan while Bhutto’s Peoples Party won a majority in West Pakistan. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/34f5MFO

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/387xlSD

Pakistan’s grade 4 students are amongst the weakest in science and maths in the world. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/2KpB1XM

After inserting Article 6 in the 1973 constitution, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (ZAB) was confident that the era of takeovers was over. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/37j4USJ

India has always been engineering and executing anti-Pakistan initiatives both in local and international media. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3qXvVmA

“The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3miQCpr

Well done both, government and rice trade under the umbrella of REAP, for protecting the brand name Kernal as linked to Pakistani basmati Super Kernal. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/34bY3bH

Influenza infection is highly contagious and often, mild to severe respiratory illness of birds, animals and humans is caused by it. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3qTdcZf

Privatisation of state assets is a global phenomenon and has its own pros and cons. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3oPNu68

“Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3qUYXD6

These geopolitical developments in the GMER will portend far reaching strategic connotations for the South-Central Asian Region too. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3a686mw

The present system of education prevalent in Pakistan is the heritage of the pre-partitioned British India. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/37X06l8

For the past many years, the idea of fifth-generation narrative warfare has been ridiculed in Pakistan. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/2JQEa3b

“Imperialism has not allowed us to achieve historical normality. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3oKpC3I

The continuity of US foreign policy in the Greater Middle East Region (GMER) is now bearing fruit handsomely. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3maOTCv

The year 2020 was marked with unprecedented chaos, unthinkable confusion, and unparalleled commotion. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3ndpv03

At independence, Rawalpindi City had only one main ground that could be used to play cricket—Company Bagh. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/37Qerja

“We can know only that we know nothing. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3ncsR3E

The social protection system refers to designing and implementing targeted social and economic policies aimed at reducing poverty and income inequality by providing relief to the most vulnerable and marginalised sections of society. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/2W3xgtI

The child of two immigrants from former British colonies, an Indian-born mother and Jamaican-born father, audacious Kamala Devi Harris is poised to become the highest-ranking woman in the history of American government, a member of the Democratic Party, will become vice president on January 20, 2021, alongside President-elect Joe Biden. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3gN5awx

Needless to emphasise that Pakistan is facing a crisis situation of unprecedented magnitude. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3a1oBju

“Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/2Kdx34q

India’s economic growth in the early decades following independence was extremely low. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/2K3Yo9b

Ever since my only son turned 13 it seemed like a devil has invaded my angelic boy (maybe angelic is an overstretch here) but yes, almost-angellike son. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/2VYZ9D7

The holy books teach us to do good deeds for others and to work for peace in the world. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3n4r8xc

“Peace is not made at the council table orby treaties, but in the hearts of men. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/373Yzud

The killing of Iranian Nuclear Scientist Mohsin Fakhrizadeh is not about Iranian Nukes, because “our enemies are against the basis of our Islamic System, and they will never cease their enmity”— Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/39Sk8j4

Pakistan got its first patient of coronavirus on February 26, 2020. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/2VX1Kxv

It is preposterous to believe that after abrogating Article 370 and 35A in Kashmir, perpetuating a Muslim, Christian and Dalit genocide, and imposing NRC and CAA and controversial triple talaq reforms, now BJP is destroying the farmers of India. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3lZJSN4

“Riding bicycles will not only benefit the individual doing it but the world at large. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/2L9t8WL

I am honoured, as a railway constructor, to lead the team of Orange Line Metro Train’s project to Pakistan to participate in its construction, which started a wonderful trip to the subcontinent of South Asia. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3oyAGAR

As Joe Biden will take the oath as the 46th President of the United States on January 20, 2021 let’s take a look back at the history of US presidents. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/2JBRoRf

The royal, colonial bureaucracy of Pakistan needs a change of mindset which is by no means a trivial matter. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/36RKSyi

“There is no eminence higher than the eminence of knowledge, and there is no state above the state of understanding [fahm] from God. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3qKjsTd

Azerbaijan and Armenia became a part of the Soviet Union when it formed in 1920. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/33RHMZj

In his book, The Prince, Machiavelli suggests that the rulers should use terror to obtain their goals and foreign ventures to divert the attention of the public from all internal crises. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3ghhogm

The opposition’s procession from an Oktoberfest of opprobrium to a December of discontent has brought to the surface critical issues about our perception of democracy and the freedoms it promises to preserve. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3lOEz2V

“Apartheid was legal. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/36QOZee

The definition of astroturfing is: the deceptive practice of presenting an orchestrated marketing or public relations campaign in the guise of unsolicited comments from the members of the public. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/37yyWAM

Pakistan comprises astounding tourist destinations, which attracts a number of tourists from across the world. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3opYZkq

Pakistan has always teetered precariously on the tightrope between utopianism and dystopianism, but now in the face of the economic danger to its economy presented by coronavirus, it might altogether find its feet forcibly pulled and dragged into the dystopian abyss. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/2VEn0YK

“[Qawwali] is samaa and you cannot participate in it without adhering to its adaab. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/36IO3bI

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held in Niamey Niger, has unanimously adopted a resolution condemning India’s illegal action of revoking Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir’s (IIOJK) autonomous status and its various steps to change the demography of the Muslim-majority region. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/2VGWiyt

The coronavirus has firmly gripped more than 2 million people worldwide and 3,000,000 have perished. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/36FKZNu

During his stint in power, the outgoing Republican POTUS Trump remained fixated on disengagement from all endless wars and to bring the soldiers home to save precious lives and money; with some degree of success despite resistance from the US administration. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3qtO6Qi

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3gaqXxE

Indian farmers are out on the streets staging a massive protest in the capital. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/2IaDncr

Is PDM heading towards a breakdown? A detailed and critical analysis of the sessions, meetings and rallies by the opposition parties’ leaders of the newly formed Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) leads to the conclusion that the alliance negated its core agenda adopted at the very outset of its launch, or adopted during their own terms of. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3mFCLuk

Notwithstanding the flak directed at the government in regards to economic management and the poor state of the economy under its stewardship, there are visible signs of reversal of the trend. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3qtovXW

“We have heard stories about white men who made the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3okoyU0

In yesterday’s article, we discussed nuclear energy and the ways nuclear power plants can solve the problem of electricity shortage in Pakistan. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/36w39RA

Dear trusted perpetrator. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3g0adt1

The West is always proud of its human rights, especially European countries and indeed Scandinavia, for good reason, too. from The Nation - Columns https://ift.tt/3qoKWNW