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PIAF sets up flood relief fund with initial amount of Rs12m

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LAHORE, Aug 29 (Online): : Initiating the support for flood affectees in the country, the Pakistan Industrial and Traders Associations Front (PIAF) on Monday established the ‘Flood Relief Fund’ with an initial amount of Rs12 million in this regard. PIAF Chairman Faheem Ur Rehman Saigol, […]

11 drown as boat capsizes in Jamshoro

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JAMSHORO, Aug 29 (Online): At least 11 people were drowned while seven others rescued when a boat carrying flood victims capsized at village Bilawalpur in Sehwan Sharif in Jamshoro district on Monday. According to the police, the people who drowned were migrating from submerged villages […]

Age of uncertainty and end of orthodoxies: By Fayyaz Baqir

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On August 14 Fareed Zakria interviewed the former president of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani on CNN’s program Global Public Square. Ashraf like Mahbub ul Haq, Ha Joon Chang, and John Maynard Keynes is among the intellectuals who keep revisiting and evolving their ideas and who dare […]

Russia blocks resolution on nuclear disarmament

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NEW YORK: Russia on Friday prevented the adoption of a joint declaration following a four-week UN conference on a nuclear disarmament treaty, with Moscow denouncing what it said were “political” aspects of the text. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which 191 signatories review every five […]

Pope urges aid for flood-hit Pakistan

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CENTRAL ITALY 28 Aug (Online): Pope Francis on Sunday called on the international community to help Paksitan, where deadly floods have killed more than 1,000 people. The Argentine pontiff appealed for “prompt and generous international solidarity”, and said he was praying for the victims. His […]

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