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Dar to ask IMF to revise macroeconomic framework

Published in The News on October 06, 2022 ISLAMABAD: The Minister of Finance, Ishaq Dar, is scheduled to leave for Washington D.C next week for attending the annual meeting of the Breton Wood Institutions (BWIs) of IMF and World Bank. According to top sources, on the sidelines of upcoming meetings from October 10 to 16, Pakistan will […]

Leicester riots and RSS

By Ismail Patel Published in DAWN on October 05, 2022 THE recent violence in Leicester, UK, by a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)-inspired Hindutva mob has sent shock-waves across the country and beyond. Leicester is home to over 100,000 Muslims and Hindus, many of whom are Gujaratis and trace their origins to Africa, mainly Uganda, Kenya and Malawi.[…]

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Oct

British Pakistanis find fraternity in cavalry sport of tent pegging

Published in The Guardian on October 05, 2022 A remote field in Bradford rumbles as a rider, resplendent in a crisp white shalwar kameez, pistachio-coloured waistcoat, turban and fan billowing upwards like peacock feathers, gallops on his horse towards a peg hammered into the ground. As the rider thunders closer to his target he lowers a long[…]