View from abroad: Can’t live with EU — can’t live without EU
Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia have joined the long list of countries which want a so-called “road map” leading up to membership of the EU...
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PakistanAmidst Metro bus fanfare, Sharjeel Memon promises free WiFi for Karachi
KARACHI: As strange as it sounds, Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon seems to think that free outdoor WiFi may be the answer to Karachi's many woes...
"The whole of Karachi will have access to free outdoor WiFi through street lights," Memon said during the inauguration ceremony of a sports complex in the city's Landhi neighbourhood...
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PakistanApex committee decides to continue Karachi operation: Sharjeel Memon
KARACHI: Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon on Sunday said the provincial apex committee had agreed on continuing the operation against criminal elements in Karachi...
Talking to media personnel after conclusion of the apex committee meeting, Memon said the operation had significantly checked crime in the metropolis, adding that there was still a lot to achieve...
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ArchiveWrong map: PU teacher suspended
LAHORE: Punjab University’s Institute of Education and Research (IER) Assistant Professor Dr Abida Nasreen has been suspended from service for three months for publication of wrong map of Pakistan on a flex...
PU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran on Monday took notice of the publication of wrong map of Pakistan on a flex in which Azad Kashmir was not shown part of the country...
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WorldMyanmar's startups map past, shape future with virtual reality
Tech startups are emerging around the commercial capital Yangon, many seeking to improve the lives of rural people, most of whom still live without paved roads or electricity...
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ArchiveShaheer Niazi — teenager who put Pakistan on science map
LAHORE: “No one has ever achieved much from staying within the confines of a system...
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ArchiveRoad map to bring electric vehicles to local roads
KARACHI: The Ministry of Science and Technology has taken the initiative for “engineering foresight” to gear up auto assemblers and parts makers for new challenges, especially electric vehicles (EVs)...
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WorldIndia takes Al Jazeera off air in Kashmir map row
“The ban has been imposed for five days and it was done on instructions of an inter-ministerial committee, who took cognisance of an incorrect map of India in which the channel showed parts of Kashmir in Pakistan and China,” the official told AFP on condition of anonymity...
The Indian government in 2011 ordered The Economist magazine to cover up a map of disputed borders in Kashmir...
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ArchiveIndia’s inter-ministerial committee recommends taking Al Jazeera off air in map row
According to sources it quoted, the issue had come to the notice of the I&B ministry that on repeated occasions the channel had showed a wrong map of India in some of its broadcasts in 2013 and 2014, after which the matter was referred to the Surveyor General of India (SGI)...
The territorial boundary of India is not shown with clarity and proper shape in another map...
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ArchiveMore than lines on a map
Isn’t it time for GHQ to pause and ask itself how it can tell one group apart from the other when each is committed to the enforcement of the narrowest, most obscurantist, and often divisive view of religion?If the CPEC is going to be more than mere red, blue or whatever coloured lines on a map, the fight against terror will have to be fought in tandem on many fronts by all state institutions and every citizen...
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ArchiveUS, Nato still trying to map out Afghanistan strategy
TIRANA (Albania): Even though President Donald Trump announced his strategy for the war in Afghanistan in August, the Pentagon and Nato are still trying to map their way forward in the nearly 16-year-old conflict, according to US officials...
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ArchiveMap of resistance
INVISIBLE to the frenzied world of urban dwellers, and anchored in the rural hinterlands of Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe, live communities of peasants — small farmers, tenants, sharecroppers — joined together in their tumultuous fight against forces bent upon usurping their rights to land, to produce and to continue their way of life...
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ArchiveBlackstone, SoftBank deals put Saudi wealth fund on map
Saudi Arabia plans to expand its sovereign wealth fund into the worlds largest...
The kingdom took a huge step toward that goal last Saturday when it signed billions of dollars of deals with Blackstone Group and SoftBank Group Corp -
WorldApple opens map development office in India's Hyderabad
A draft bill up for public consultation proposes a billion-rupee ($15 million) fine and jail time for anyone distributing a map the Indian government deems to be “wrong”...
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ArchiveSmokers’ Corner: The map man
He is presented as a one-shot wonder, someone who came up with the name and idea of Pakistan but then just simply vanishes from the pages after 1940!Late last year while going through some piles of books at a second-hand bookstore in Karachi’s Boat Basin area, I came upon a grubby thin publication called Pakistan: The Fatherland of Pak Nation...
’ Though he doesn’t attach any date or year to this, but with the help of a map (titled...
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