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Pakistani Police Officer, Two Militants Killed in Islamabad Clash

A police officer has been killed and two others injured in a rare shootout in Pakistan's capital, officials said Tuesday. The Monday night gun battle started when two gunmen riding a motorcycle opened fire on a police checkpoint in Islamabad, AFP reported. "A policeman was martyred while two others were…

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Texas synagogue attack: Who is Aafia Siddiqui? A federal prisoner linked to the hostage situation

Siddiqui’s attorney denies the Pakistani neuroscientist had any involvement in ‘wicked’ actions

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2,000 Firms from 106 Countries Start Operations at Sharjah Publishing City Free Zone

Sharjah Publishing City Free Zone (SPC Free Zone) has announced that in 2021, it witnessed impressive growth in the number of new company registrations with a total of 2,000 new companies from across 106 countries, mainly from the UK, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Lebanon, Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported.…

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‘The Taliban shot my wife in the head’: ex-UK government contractor

First in a new series highlighting the stories of ten people left behind in the withdrawal from Afghanistan, meet Asif, who worked for the UN and Adam Smith International before fleeing to Pakistan, where he has no legal status

The Guardian - UK

Pakistan is humming with optimism. What’s happened to India?

To say that humanity is facing unprecedented challenges as we turn the page to this new decade is quite the understatement. We live in an age defined by information, and where misinformation plays a pivotal part in shaping our worldview. It’s not hard to imagine why so many polarised opinions…

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Political game: Is Sourav Ganguly’s elevation as BCCI president part of the BJP’s design for Bengal?

In 1996, a lanky young left-handed batsman — Sourav Ganguly — announced himself to the cricketing world when he scored a scintillating debut century at Lord’s, the mecca of the sport. Even when he became the captain of the Indian cricket team, he took Indian cricket to new heights by…

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Is the situation in Kashmir normal? No, it isn’t, admits state police chief

In the evening on August 4, the Indian government put Kashmir under a security lockdown and communications blackout to pre-empt protests against the dismantling of its special constitutional status. Over 40 days later, Kashmir is yet to return to “normal”, the state’s police chief Dilbag Singh admitted.

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Hafta Letters: Of pandiculations and known unknowns

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Daily Dose Ep 146: #Chidambaram, #Facebook, #Google and more

In this episode of Daily Dose, Snigdha Sharma brings you the latest updates from New Delhi, Goa, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the US.

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Daily Dose Ep 143: #KulbhushanJadhav, #Chidambaram, #RomilaThapar and more

In this episode of Daily Dose, Snigdha Sharma brings you the latest news from Pakistan, New Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and the US.

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Daily Dose Ep 142: #NRC, #GDPFreeFall, #Brexit and more

In this episode of Daily Dose, Snigdha Sharma brings you the latest news from Assam, New Delhi, Maharshtra, Pakistan and the UK.

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#Article370: Curfew and curses in Srinagar’s Downtown area

Most reports coming out of Kashmir, specifically Srinagar, have described and distilled the desolate, still and sieged state of the region as “curfew-like”. However, while all of Srinagar remains desolate, parts of it are more desolate than others.

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Daily Dose Ep 128: Shah Faesal, Kashmir, Abhinandan Varthaman and more

In this episode of Daily Dose, Snigdha Sharma brings you the latest stories from Kashmir, South India, Pakistan and the US.Produced by Kartik Nijhawan and edited by Satish Kumar.You can also listen to all our podcasts on the Newslaundry App and get updates about all our podcasts via Twitter and Facebook.iOS: http://apple.co/2iZhEq1Newslaundry is a reader-supported,…

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Daily Dose Ep 123: Kashmir, Karan Singh, Zuleika Hassan and more

In this episode of Daily Dose, Snigdha Sharma brings you the latest stories from Kashmir, New Delhi, South India, Pakistan and Kenya.

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Daily Dose Ep 117: #UnnaoCase, #KulbhushanJadhav, Ebola and more

In this episode of Daily Dose, Snigdha Sharma brings you the latest stories from Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Odisha, Pakistan and Rwanda.Produced by Snigdha Sharma and edited by Samarendra K Dash.You can also listen to all our podcasts on the Newslaundry App and get updates about all our podcasts via Twitter and Facebook.Newslaundry is a…

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Why Facebook’s recent purge is problematic to the core

Facebook just did a Thanos-esque move on April 1st, snapped its fingers, and deleted a bunch of pages and accounts that were either engaging in ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’ or ‘civic spam’. These removals were specifically targeted to India and Pakistan.

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The Master of Spin Speaks

On a January night during the 11 pm slot in 1992, cricket followers in India watched a young, overweight and blonde-haired Shane Warne for the first time in action on Doordarshan‘s Test Match highlights. It used to be a 30-minute package in times when cable television was yet to make…

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A history lesson for Atul Kochhar

It’s obvious the celebrated Michelin-starred chef Atul Kochhar does not know his roast poussin from his lamb rump. For starters, how could an apparently savvy, accomplished and trained chef not tell the difference between Muslim and Islam when he castigated Bollywood actor Priyanka Chopra? In the tweet to Chopra, Kochhar…

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As India, Pak duel over Gurez dam, a village in Kashmir longs for electricity

The spectacular Gurez valley lies secluded in the upper reaches of the Himalaya, tucked between the northern stretch of Kashmir, 123 km from Srinagar, and Pakistan’s southern horizon. When you tell the locals how beautiful it is, the common response is: “Oh, but you don’t want to be here in the winters.”

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Nawaz’s narrative: It’s not about India, it’s only about Pakistan

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif seems to have decided that he isn’t going to go down without a fight, even if it means taking on the all-powerful, military-dominated “establishment”.

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Why #WuhanSummit is path-breaking

National power is defined as the ability of a nation to attain its strategic objectives by directed action. National power is no longer restricted to the military but also includes a multiplicity of factors such as strength of the economy, human resources, availability of national resources, knowledge and science and…

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Jahangiri justice, Tughlaqi judges

Over the last few years there has been a discernible, if also disturbing, trend to involve, or even drag in the judiciary to settle political scores. While instituting all sorts of cases – fake or genuine, criminal or civil – against political rivals has for long been part and parcel…

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Book Review: A Century Is Not Enough By Sourav Ganguly

A Century Is Not EnoughBy Sourav Ganguly, co-written with Gautam BhattacharyaPublished by JuggernautPages 258It was on a sunny winter day in December 1995 when, as a schoolboy, I watched Sourav Ganguly on a cricket ground for the first time. He was dismissed for a paltry nine runs in Bengal’s first…

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Donald Trump’s tweet should be a precursor to hard policy

Whatever else you may say or feel about US President Donald Trump’s in-your-face style of diplomacy, his clarity, realism, and even understanding of most foreign policy issues are far superior to that of his more “intellectually-inclined” predecessors. On Pakistan and its perfidious policy on combating and confronting Islamic terrorism, Trump…

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