India quietly signed two contracts worth $1.4bn with Israel Aerospace Industries for the purchase of two additional Phalcon/IL-76 Airborne Early Warning and Control Systems (AWACS) valued at $1 billion and…
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South Asia, the home of the legendary Silk Route, now remains the least inter-connected part in the world in terms of trade. Yet it has the potential to do so…
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South Asia, the home of the legendary Silk Route, now remains the least inter-connected part in the world in terms of trade. Yet it has the potential to…
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Pakistan performed worse than India and Bangladesh when it came to eradicating hunger, a new study points out. Pakistan ranks 107 in the Global Hunger Index followed by India which…
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A senior Pakistani diplomat has underscored the imperative need for resolving the decades-old dispute between Pakistan and India in a bid to promote peace and stability in South Asia.…
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Global competitiveness: Would Pakistan address long-standing issues of business community?
Pakistan remained among the bottom 20 in the list of 138 countries ranked on the influential Global Competitiveness Index of the World Economic Forum and is at the bottom…
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The United States reminded Pakistan on Thursday that its struggle with terrorism will not come to an end until it makes a decisive shift in its policy of tolerance towards…
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Sixty per cent of the groundwater in a river basin supporting more than 750 million people in Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh is not drinkable or usable for irrigation, researchers have…
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Rape in India is prevalent. Despite several rape cases Indian Govt is on constant denial. The Indian government is up in arms. It has banned a documentary, India’s Daughter, which…
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Democracy in South Asia is at the brink. Not only in Pakistan but in Bangladesh police few months ago completed a sweeping series of mass arrests intended to curb violence…
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President Obama said Wednesday that he planned to leave 8,400 American troops in Afghanistan until the end of his term, further slowing the drawdown in a 14-year war that Mr. Obama…
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The joint meeting of the Senate Standing Committees on Defence and Foreign Affairs was briefed on Monday that the growing proximity of the US and India in terms of…
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The United States warned against the risk of a nuclear conflict in South Asia, as China on Sunday called for more talks on India’s application seeking membership of an exclusive…
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Vanishing peace in Pakistan: Were the military operations against terrorists a futile exercise?
The world has become less peaceful than just a year ago, all thanks to growing terrorism and instability, said the ‘2016 Global Peace Index (GPI)’ report published by the…
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Academics, military experts, diplomats have stressed the need for improvement in governance. At a three-day conference organised by the Strategic Vision Institute (SVI) on Wednesday they warned that poor…
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Making Pakistan illiterate: Can Pakistan prioritize between education and Infra-structure?
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Pakistan was the tenth largest arms importer in the world in 2015, down one spot from number nine the previous year, a military think tank database reveals, while Saudi Arabia was the leading arms importer in…
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The so-called Islamic State group has said it was behind the beheading of a senior Hindu priest and wounding two worshippers in northern Bangladesh. In a statement IS said…
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A horrible report: Non-state actors can trigger nuclear war between India and Pakistan
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