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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Over 500 child sexual abuse cases surfaced in Islamabad in 5 years
News Desk Child sexual abuse cases are on the rise in Pakistan. In Islamabad only, 300 cases of child sexual
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Welfare state: Easier said than done
WILL the PTI’s model of a welfare state serve as a catalyst to laying the foundation of an egalitarian society
Read MoreBritish PM May faces uphill battle as MPs gather for debate
Martin Farrer brings the best news from the Guardian this Monday morning. It might be the new year, but it’s
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Sonia Peak: Our attempt to tire the mountain-I
My father would tell me: don’t tire yourself, tire the mountain with your patience, writes Osman Ehtisham Anwar Mountains are
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Sonia Peak: Our attempt to tire the mountain — Part II
Omar Ehtisham Anwar “If it were not for the Divine Beauty everything that lay before my eyes would vanish in
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Federer claims record third Hopman Cup title in dramatic fashion
AFP PERTH: Roger Federer has become the most successful player in Hopman Cup history after leading Switzerland to a 2-1
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