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The Trump administration seems very serious in ending eighteen years long war in Afghanistan and pulling out its troops from that war-ravaged country which has cost $45 billion annually to the US since its blitzkrieg in 2001 besides thousands of casualties of the US and allied forces. The Taliban also seem equally willing to find a negotiated ... from Opinions News https://ift.tt/2XUQrEA

Pakistan is finally on the world Coal Map. On July 08, 2019 power generated from Thar Coal entered the national grid; electricity is now being produced by combustion of the local Lignite. At 175 billion tons this is one of the largest coal deposits of the world. The coalfield is spread over 9,000 square kilometers. It was discovered in 1996 by a ... from Opinions News https://ift.tt/2Yfc32s

They say: he is an upright man, financially non corrupt, strict, motivated and non-compromising on principles. True. We do admit that he not only talks of merit; he adopts it where he can. We know that he is determined enough to have snatched the World Cup and succeeded to establish such a hospital in the country like ours which was being called ... from Opinions News https://ift.tt/2Y41P16

“These Mirs, Masters and Sardars (Tribal Chieftans)These Pirs, Clerics and Zardaars (the Wealthy)These are the real roots of evil”–Gul Khan Naseer, “Man O Mullah” Born in 1914 in Noshki, Gul Khan Naseer was a prominent Balochi politician, poet, historian and journalist. After studying from Lahore, he came back to ... from Opinions News https://ift.tt/2YdMrmL

Will Meyer  |  Longreads | July 2019 | 10 minutes (2,501 words)   This year beef has become yet another proxy in the never ending culture wars. Such foot-soldiers as Sebastian Gorka and Ted Cruz have stoked the flames, claiming that Democrats are going to take hamburgers away and kill cows, replacing summer barbecues with Stalinism. Of course, Democrats have no such plans, at least not yet; at this point, the Green New Deal (GND) is merely a pipe dream and hardly an actionable reality. Still, the idea that beef could become contested is what provoked reactions. A fact-sheet about the GND mentioned the carbon emissions from the meat industry, and last year’s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report specifically named animal emissions and land use as issues that need addressing in order to save the planet within its twelve-year time table. “The forecast is bleak,” Troy Vettese writes of the IPCC report in Boston Review : “[over] the course of the twenty-firs...

Leah Sottile | Longreads | July 2019 | 27 minutes (7,641 words) Part 4 of 5 of Bundyville: The Remnant , season two of Bundyville, a series and podcast from Longreads and  OPB .  I. To get to the Kingdom of Heaven, drive a long twisting road that dips in and out of wide green fields dotted with hay bales, skim alongside a crooked river and stop at the sign that says Marble Country. A wooden ranch gate — a tall archway of timber and American flags — marks the spot. Keep going past it for 20 more minutes and you’ll leave the country altogether; drive under that gate, and in a way, you’ll leave America, too. For nearly 30 years, speculation about what goes on beyond the threshold to Marble Country has confused, scared, and angered folks here in Stevens County — a far-flung region of thick forests and dirt roads, cow pastures and low hills deep in the northeastern corner of Washington state. Before the first barn wall could be raised on the site of a ghost town, people ...

Tunisia : Fifth Review Under the Extended Fund Facility, and Requests for Waivers of Nonobservance and Modification of Performance Criteria and for Rephasing of Access Published July 18, 2019 at 09:00AM