• OPINION

  Vietnam's bamboo diplomacy in effect

  Oped, Published on 20/01/2024

  » During a New Year briefing, Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Sơn told the media that the diplomatic sector will continue to focus on strongly developing the identity of Vietnamese "bamboo diplomacy" in 2024.

• OPINION

  Balancing sustainability in BRI

  Oped, Published on 19/10/2023

  » Ever since 2013 when China launched its magnanimous Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Western capitals have been viewing this monumental developmental project with scepticism; their response is tainted by an unwarranted wave of negativity and misinformation.

• OPINION

  Time runs short in India's climate crisis

  Oped, Published on 09/08/2023

  » 'I have never seen climate carnage on the scale of the floods here in Pakistan. As our planet continues to warm, all countries will increasingly suffer losses and damage from climate beyond their capacity to adapt. This is a global crisis, it demands a global response," wrote UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in his tweet at the end of his two-day solidarity trip to Pakistan in September last year.

• OPINION

  The simmering movement towards de-dollarisation

  Oped, Published on 25/04/2023

  » In the hopes of pressuring Russia to capitulate, the United States implemented a series of punitive sanctions last year, freezing a whopping $300 billion of Russia's foreign currency reserves and booting major Russian banks from the interbank messaging service used for international payments, SWIFT.

• OPINION

  Imran Khan is treading the path of typical populism

  Oped, Published on 07/04/2023

  » Imran Khan is treading on the path of typical populism.

• OPINION

  Sexual taboos confront Pakistan

  Oped, Published on 07/10/2022

  » Since early last month when Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan of Jamaat-e-Islami, a staunch religious party, proposed the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights amend the Transgender Protection Act of 2018, Pakistan's social and mainstream media swarmed with heated debate on the subject.

• OPINION

  Pakistan floods a colossal tragedy

  Oped, Published on 21/09/2022

  » 'I have never seen climate carnage on the scale of the floods here in Pakistan. As our planet continues to warm, all countries will increasingly suffer losses and damage from climate beyond their capacity to adapt. This is a global crisis, it demands a global response," wrote UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Twitter on Monday, at the end of his two-day solidarity trip to the flood-affected areas of Pakistan.

• WORLD

  In Pakistan public education suffocates under surging population

  AFP, Published on 14/12/2018

  » TANJAI CHEENA (PAKISTAN) - At the Tanjai Cheena school in northwest Pakistan students squeeze into makeshift classrooms where plastic tarps serve as walls and electricity is sparse, as a surging population overstretches the country's fragile education system.

• SPORTS

  Pakistan drop Afridi, Shehzad from England cricket tour

  AFP, Published on 03/05/2016

  » LAHORE (PAKISTAN) - Pakistan's new selectors Monday dropped star players Shahid Afridi, Ahmed Shehzad and Umar Akmal from next month's tour of England, stressing there would be no compromises after the country's disastrous exit from the World Twenty20 in India.

• SPORTS

  Pakistan mourn Olympic exit

  AFP, Published on 04/07/2015

  » KARACHI - Former greats and fans Saturday mourned the failure of Pakistan's hockey team to qualify for next year's Olympic Games, describing it the blackest day in the sport once dominated by the country.

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