Age of uncertainty and end of orthodoxies: By Fayyaz Baqir

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

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

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 […]

Nawaz urges affluent, lawmakers to help flood victims

LONDON 28 Aug (Online): Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) supremo and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has called upon people belonging to all walks of life including wealthy individuals and party lawmakers to come forward and help the flood victims. “People are in difficulty as […]

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