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Pentagon: Budget Cuts Will Reduce Military Readiness

Pentagon: Budget cuts will reduce military readiness

The Pentagon's restrained budget would reduce US military readiness, cut down on training, ground a dozen fighter squadrons and eliminate tens of thousands of civilian employees, Pentagon officials said Wednesday…

Safety Standards

Safety standards

The financial woes under which PIA labours are a decades-old and a well-known headache for the state. But a letter published in these pages a week ago speaks volumes for…

A Mad Hatter’s tea party

Trump 2.0 has come out swinging, enacting a flurry of executive orders along the lines of what he had promised during his election campaign. A short list of the most…

Too hot to handle Dr Farrukh Saleem

Tomorrow, the disruptor-in-chief will be sworn in as the 45th president of the US. On his first day in office, he plans to issue a hundred executive orders. The disruptor-in-chief…

The Kurram conundrum

The Kurram district, situated in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has historically been a region of considerable strategic significance and cultural depth. Nestled along the western frontier, it shares a volatile border with…

FBR: Messing up a messy law

Actus legis nemini facit injurium (A party should not suffer on account of an act or omission by the Court or State functionaries) State V. Asif Adil and others 1997…

Arrest warrants for Netanyahu-I

This write-up seeks to examine the effects and impacts of emerging developments in International Criminal Law. The Prosecutor of International Criminal Court (ICC) recently filed Criminal charges against Benjamin Netanyahu,…

Rethinking Afghan policy

THERE is an immediate need for Pakistan to overhaul its Afghanistan policy, since the present one has failed to yield positive results. The Taliban regime in Kabul has not responded…

Challenges for an ambitious Trump

Donald Trump seems to be determined to make America great again and for this, he is likely to come up with an ambitious plan. But many believe that such a…