The View From Pakistan
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View from Dawn: The solution to Pakistan’s economic woes lie in trade with India
Pakistan seems to have shut itself off to importing both good ideas or cheap goods from its eastern neighbour.
Dawn.com
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Covid-19: As Pakistani universities moves classes online, students protest lack of internet access
Only 36.2% of the country’s population has internet access.
Ebad Ahmed
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As Karachi strives to become a ‘world-class’ city, its most vulnerable residents pay the price
In Pakistan’s largest city, thousands have been displaced by ‘anti-encroachment’ drives.
Nausheen H Anwar
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Start the week with a film: Why ‘Manjummel Boys’ was a blockbuster
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‘Knowing we’re mortal gives us purpose’: Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan on his new book
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The BJP wants an Opposition-free Gujarat. But some are putting up a fight
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‘No Muslim can win, now or in the future’: In Assam’s Barpeta, delimitation fears confirmed
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‘We are living in perpetual fear’: Prajwal Revanna video leaks spark panic among women in Hassan
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When the Muslim poet who went on to write Pakistan’s national anthem wrote a nazm to Lord Krishna
‘Krishn Kanhaiya’ written by Hafeez Jalandhari in pre-Partition India is a testimony to the syncreticism in South Asia.
Nikhil Mandalaparthy
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Why Pakistan and China must pay heed to the growing local resistance to CPEC
Communities that are being displaced by the project are anxious – and angry.
Dr. Amiera Sawas, The Conversation & Dr Nausheen H Anwar, The Conversation
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Strangers in the house: The trouble with being Bengali, Burmese or Iranian in Karachi
It’s not easy being recognised as legal citizens of Pakistan.
Bilal Karim Mughal & Saher Baloch
Video
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Watch: South Korean band performs Rabindra Sangeet accompanied by traditional Korean instruments
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Watch: This man fused hip-hop with Bharatnatyam to dance to Shakira’s ‘Hips Don’t Lie’
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Watch: Comedian hilariously mimics different types of announcements at railway stations
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Eco India: A new buzzword for a protein rich animal feed: Insect farming
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Eco India, Episode 259: How future-proof innovations can revolutionize the way we protect nature
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Only traces remain of a once-active Arya Samaj Organisation in Karachi
The temples in the compound are now used as kindergarten schools and just a few plaques indicate its history.
Akhtar Balouch
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Kidnapped in Karachi: A survival guide from the man who's seen it all
An interview with Jameel Yusuf, who helps families negotiate the release of abducted relatives in Pakistan's commercial capital.
Fahad Naveed