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To develop the country’s social sector, Pakistan has signed three agreements with the World Bank. The agreements, worth $350 million in total, were signed by the World Bank’s Acting country director Said Al-Habsy and Pakistan’s Secretary Economic...
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Pakistan’s Pay and Pension Commission is expected to propose a significant increase in the pay of government employees working in the fields of education, security...
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In a company CEO is highly paid person that complete team which making the the profit to company multiple time.
After a one year again this issues raised by the...
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Thank god so far Dalai Lama does not need permission from China to visit Arunachal & can stay at Dharmshala till god wants. I wonder why there is no national...
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A special award for hypocrisy and phony outrage has to go to the Anti-Defamation League. The organization exists ostensibly to combat anti-Semitism, but is now nothing...
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The seeming decline of Dubai requires several “lessons learned” report for future aspiring city-states: Money does not grow on trees. Simple, yes, and...
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There isn’t a more prominent voice amongst the American Eastablishment than New York Times columnist Tom Friedman (I personally have very low regard for the man)....
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Its a National Shame when an elected representative of a national party has been attacked,when he has taken oath in National language Hindi.
Abu Azmi of Samajwadi...
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I do not want to scare you bu saying that with nuclear Taliban which next generation we are talking about. So I will try to be more optimistic & assume that India...
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Don’t throw yourself at man and indulge in promiscuity,protect your own body, purity,and chastity - This is the message Delhi High court has given to all those...
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I don’t ever recall being so jaded and skeptical when I was growing up. Something terrible would happen and the initial shock and outrage turned to sadness. I...
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The fight against terrorism and extremism is in progress in the tribal belt of Pakistan (FATA). Security forces are closing down on the hub of Taliban i.e., Waziristan,...
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After watching Madhur Bhandarkar’s movie ‘JAIL’ I couldn’t stop appreciating him for bringing in to day light such a bad face of India. The...
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Dear Mr. Carlos Slim Helu,
Now that I finally have my phone and internet back I should probably apologize for unleashing the wrath and hunting/stalking skills of my...
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This was always predictable. The Palestinian Islamist party-cum-militia Hamas (an Arabic acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement) was always going to come to the rescue...
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Sami El Haj, a Sudanese journalist arrested in Pakistan and detained at Guantanamo Bay, says he will file a criminal case against Pakistan’s ex-President Pervez...
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Week In Review In Occupied Palestine
First, an inspiring photo:
A Palestinian protestor climbs up Israel’s Apartheid Wall after Palestinians started to knock...
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Due to the widespread corruption in the government departments, as revealed to the public off and on via the media, the average Pakistani feels that paying tax is just...
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The Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan has turned to the World Bank for funds and the latter has agreed to give a $100 million loan to the HEC in the near...
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The truth is not a shortsightedness like that. Hungary’s Finance Minister János Veres is in China conducting negotiations about a two-piece project worth USD 200...
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Southeast Asian nations, backed by Japan, China and South Korea, have agreed to set up a multi-billion dollar fund to buy toxic debt and help the region’s banks...
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Human Rights Watch, a US-based group claiming to be a non-governmental organization, but which is in fact funded by government-linked quasi-private foundations and a...
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I recently attended a talk given by Pedro Alba, WB Director for Argentina, amongst other countries in the Southern Cone. I was pleasantly surprised by Alba’s approach...
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Chavez’s government has been demonized by the US since he came to power and has been elected democratically numerous times by numbers that would be considered...
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NEW DELHI: India is home to roughly one-third of all poor people in the world. It also has a higher proportion of its population living on less than $2 per day than...
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Seebohm Rowntree was the son of wealthy Quaker businessman Joseph Rowntree but was acutely aware of the poverty that surrounded him in late-Victorian York, England.
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Every agency wants to jump on to the ‘tiger crisis’ bandwagon. Now the World Bank has ‘asked’ the Indian government to put in a ‘formal...
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U.N. agencies and the World Bank pledged on Tuesday to set up a task force to tackle an unprecedented rise in global food prices that is threatening to spread social...
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The president of the World Bank on Sunday urged immediate action to deal with rapidly rising food prices that have caused hunger and deadly violence in several...
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It is indeed sad, that the Indian state of Bihar, with a population of roughly 90 million people is practically disconnected from the growing Indian and global economy....
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There is a need to just forget the dream to make Mumbai a Shanghai and the state government should concentrate to make it another New York. Mumbai actually needs to go...
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The poor in India keep dying while the Sensex shoots up. Slums in metros are destroyed to make way for high-rises. Nobody hears of the slum-dwellers anymore. All sorts...
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India’s Finance minister P Chidambaram has told the developed countries to concentrate on their own problems and invest time to think for the solutions of the...
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