August 2020 Blog Posts (37)

CNN's Fareed Zakaria Never Misses Any Opportunity to Disparage Pakistan

Interviewing Bill Gates on global fight against COVID19, CNN GPS host Fareed Zakaria said on Sunday August 9 that Pakistan "has done almost nothing as far as I can tell, you know, infections are not going crazy, death rates are not going crazy, there may be some underreporting". Needless to say, Zakaria's claim is debunked by "Government Response Stringency Index" and Google Mobility Reports…

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Added by Riaz Haq on August 12, 2020 at 9:30pm — 16 Comments

SC orders to register case against KE

Pakistan Breaking News

Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday has directed to register case against K-Electric over deaths in Karachi due to electrocution during Monsoon rain spell and prolonged power…

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Added by Sobia Anjum on August 11, 2020 at 12:43am — No Comments

سپریم کورٹ نے کے الیکٹرک کیخلاف مقدمہ درج کرنے کا حکم دے دیا

Pakistan Urdu News

سپریم کورٹ نے کے الیکٹرک کیخلاف مقدمہ درج کرنے کا حکم دے دیا۔



تفصیلات کے مطابق چیف جسٹس گلزار احمد نے سی ای او مونس علوی کا نام ای سی…

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Added by Sobia Anjum on August 11, 2020 at 12:17am — No Comments

Pakistan Independence Day 2020: National Resilience Amid Deadly COVI19 Pandemic

On Pakistan's 73rd Independence Anniversary, the people of the South Asian nation have demonstrated their resilience yet again. They have defied all foreign and domestic doomsayers, including media, activists and think tanks of all varieties. Pakistan has successfully fought off the deadly COVID19 virus and begun to bounce back economically. Moody's rating agency has raised Pakistan's…
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Added by Riaz Haq on August 10, 2020 at 8:00pm — 25 Comments

Rains wreak havoc in Dadu district, flood more than 350 villages

Sindh News

Torrential rains wreaked havoc in Dadu district, Sindh province…
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Added by Sobia Anjum on August 10, 2020 at 1:49am — No Comments

Shopping malls, hotels, cinemas, salons in Pakistan to reopen today as restrictions lift

Pakistan Breaking News

Shopping malls, restaurants, hotels, gyms, theatres, cinema halls, beauty parlors across the country will reopen today (Monday) with the implementation of…

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Added by Sobia Anjum on August 9, 2020 at 11:46pm — No Comments

ملک بھر میں ون ڈے پلانٹیشن ڈرائیو کا آج آغاز ہو گا

ملک بھر میں آج ون ڈے پلانٹیشن ڈرائیو کا آغاز ہو گا۔



تفصیلات ک متابق ملک بھر میں آج ایک دن میں 35 لاکھ پودے لگائے…

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Added by Sobia Anjum on August 8, 2020 at 11:27pm — No Comments

Intermittent rain turns Karachi roads, streets into canals

Sindh News

Intermittent rain hit Karachi on third straight day and turned many roads and streets into rivulets on Saturday. 

The citizens are facing severe trouble due…

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Added by Sobia Anjum on August 8, 2020 at 1:45am — No Comments

India: A Paradise For Pakistani Hindus?

A recent New York Times piece titled "Poor and Desperate, Pakistani Hindus Accept Islam to Get By" talks of "Pakistan’s dwindling Hindu minority". An earlier New York Times story in December 2019 mentioned "the pressure for (Pakistani) Hindus to weigh moving to India".  The paper also reported that "the Indian government granted 12,732 long-term visas, compared with 4,712 in 2017, and 2,298 in 2016".…

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Added by Riaz Haq on August 6, 2020 at 5:30pm — 13 Comments

PM Imran to preside over Council of Common Interests meeting today

Breaking News

The 42nd session of the Council of Common Interests (CCI) will be held in Islamabad today (Thursday) under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Imran…

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Added by Sobia Anjum on August 6, 2020 at 12:30am — No Comments

Karachi to receive heavy downpour from today: PMD

Sindh News



Heavy downpour accompanied by thunderstorms is likely to hit Karachi as fourth spell of monsoon expected to enter the city today (Thursday),…

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Added by Sobia Anjum on August 6, 2020 at 12:23am — No Comments

COVID-19 claims 711,220 lives worldwide, infects over 18 million people so far

Breaking News

Coronavirus has claimed 711,220 lives worldwide so far and infected 18,977,637 people, while 12,166,746 patients have been recuperated.

The number…

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Added by Sobia Anjum on August 6, 2020 at 12:12am — No Comments

Beirut faces unprecedented disaster, toll reaches 135

World News

Lebanon's capital Beirut faced nightmare as the massive blast at city port death toll rose to 135. 

While describing the…

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Added by Sobia Anjum on August 6, 2020 at 12:07am — No Comments

Pakistan registers 727 new coronavirus cases with 21 more deaths

Breaking News

The number of corona cases in the country has climbed to 281,863 on Thursday after more infections were reported in different parts of the country.

According to the national database, 727 persons…

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Added by Sobia Anjum on August 6, 2020 at 12:02am — No Comments

Global Geopolitics: US-China Technology War; India's Regional Isolation; Pakistan's Ties With China, US

Is US-China technology war heating with Huawei ban? Is it part of the larger geopolitical landscape pitting the US as the established superpower against China as the new rising power? Is the fight over Huawei 5G merely a symptom of it? How will it affect global…

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Added by Riaz Haq on August 4, 2020 at 7:35am — 48 Comments

Indian Investigative Reporter Exposes RAW's Covert Ops Against Neighbors

In a new book titled "RAW: A History of India’s Covert Operations", Indian investigative journalist Yatish Yadav has essentially confirmed some of what India's neighbors have suspected for a long time. Yadav has added to the revelations contained in a earlier book titled "Mission R&AW" written by ex Indian spy RK Yadav.…

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Added by Riaz Haq on August 3, 2020 at 4:30pm — 4 Comments

Pakistan: Hopes Rise For Cheap and Abundant Electricity

Pakistani power sector is continuing its march toward cheap indigenous sources of electricity. Hydropower component has increased 22%, coal 57% and nuclear 8% while oil is down 54% and natural gas and LNG are down 32% and 15% respectively, according to Bloomberg. These…

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Added by Riaz Haq on August 1, 2020 at 1:00pm — 18 Comments

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    Pakistani student enrollment in America's institutions of higher learning rose 16% last year, outpacing the record 12% growth in the number of international students hosted by the country. This puts Pakistan among eight sources in the top 20 countries with the largest increases in US enrollment. India saw the biggest increase at 35%, followed by Ghana 32%, Bangladesh and…

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    Pakistan's agriculture sector GDP grew at a rate of 5.2% in the October-December 2023 quarter, according to the government figures. This is a rare bright spot in the overall national economy that showed just 1% growth during the quarter. Strong performance of the farm sector gives the much needed boost for about …

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