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Friday, January 31, 2025

UN chief calls for efforts to re-enhance education

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for stepping up efforts to reimagine education — training teachers, bridging the digital divide and rethinking curricula —...

President Biden to restore COVID travel ban

President Joe Biden will re-impose a Covid-19 travel ban on most non-US citizens who have been in Britain, Brazil, Ireland and much of Europe, a...

MBS’s Vision 2030: Modernization, reforms and authoritarianism

The need for modernization For a naïve spectator, who doesn’t understand the interplay of geopolitics, economy, and regional power struggles; the reforms which Muhammad Bin...

Op-ed: Middle East futures: Decade(s) of defiance and dissent

If the 2010s were a decade of defiance and dissent, the 2020s promise to make mass anti-government protests a fixture of the greater Middle...

Pakistan Post incurs huge economic loss

Pakistan Post has incurred a huge economic loss due to the suspension of its operations in the wake of Covid19. The operations have been...

Op-ed: Definition of Grace – Letter to Successor Presidents

One of the most crucial aspects of a functioning democracy is the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to the next. More importantly,...

Op-ed: If you think Pakistani Anchors are abrasive, look East

My smartphone, whose workings I am still trying to come to grips with buzzed late Friday afternoon. The number displayed was unfamiliar and from...

Balochistan approves its first digital policy

The aim of the 2020-2021 Balochistan digital policy is to provide e-governance, public access to digital services, and provision of cheap, standard, and high-speed...

Malaysia is not happy with EU’s palm oil restrictions, files complaint with WTO

Malaysia has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization over European Union rules affecting the consumption of palm oil-based biofuels, according to a...

China set to defeat US as worlds best economy

The world’s second-largest economy China’s GDP is projected to expand 8.2 percent this year, continuing to outpace global peers including the United States, according...

Biden ready for first day in office, amid high security alert

Joe Biden's top aide said Saturday the incoming president would sign about a dozen executive orders on his first day in office, as police...

Erdogan seeks to turn ‘new page’ with EU, as Turkey prepares for Biden

Facing a potentially hostile US administration, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is trying to break his isolation by mending EU relations, torn by what...