S. Korean Olympic champion accuses coach of sex assault
Olympic athlete Shim Suk-hee’s former coach is already in jail for beating her over the course of many years AFP
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2pc of students regularly using drugs, QAU survey finds
ISLAMABAD: Contrary to the claims of the minister of state for interior about excessive drug use by students in the
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Deadline for registration of mobile phones extended
Ikram Junaidi ISLAMABAD: As per a directive given by the federal government, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has extended the
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Bank deposits record slowest growth in decade
KARACHI: Deposit growth of the banking system stalled in 2018 despite one of the largest interest hikes of 4.25 per
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PIA abolishes protocols for govt officers
Muhammad Asghar RAWALPINDI: In order to put an end to the VIP culture, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) scrapped all protocols
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Human trafficking takes horrific dimension: UN report
Nearly a third of human trafficking victims are children; The ‘Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2018’ from the UN
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Twenty Chinese school children wounded in hammer attack
Reuters BEIJING: A Chinese man attacked at least 20 young children at a Beijing primary school with a hammer on
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Afghan Taliban call off peace talks with US over ‘agenda differences’
Reuters PESHAWAR The Afghan Taliban said on Tuesday they had called off peace talks with US officials in Qatar this
Read MoreIndia win first ever Test series in Australia
AFP SYDNEY: Virat Kohli´s dominant India reinforced their status as the world´s number one team by winning a historic first-ever
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Suspect involved in illegal hunting of markhor presented before court in Chitral
A suspect who participated in the illegal hunting of a markhor, Pakistan’s national animal, in Chitral was presented before the
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China invites UN observers to restive region of Xinjiang, but with ‘conditions’
AFP China said on Monday it would welcome UN officials to the restive western region of Xinjiang with the condition
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Politics: Empire’s racketeers
Wajahat Ali speaks with Pankaj Mishra on the devastating consequences of Western imperialism, globalization, and capitalism and the fate of
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Global justice: How to think about Empire
Boston Review speaks with Arundhati Roy on censorship, storytelling, and her problem with the term ‘postcolonialism.’ In her second novel,
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Toward changing the language of creative writing classrooms
Praise, like criticism, can make us forget what art is for By Helen Betya Rubinstein I open the creative writing courses
Read MorePakistan in 2019: Recommendations for navigating change
To mark the New Year, we asked a group of senior and emerging thought leaders and policy practitioners to list
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