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Dec

More than $2.2 billion promised for global refugee crisis at UN forum

By Emma Farge Published in news.yahoo.com on December 16, 2023 GENEVA (Reuters) -Countries and businesses at a major U.N. forum pledged more than $2.2 billion towards a global displacement crisis and promised jobs for tens of thousands of refugees in an outcome the United Nations chief said would help “stem the tide of misery”. Thousands of people […]

12

Dec

Pakistan regionally

By Dr Niaz Murtaza Published in DAWN on December 12, 2023 WE lag economically even in South Asia. This lag is well-known but not its huge scale. To display that, I compare Saarc economies using World Bank data which runs up to 2022 and thus excludes our poor 2023 data. I focus on the state we left[…]

11

Dec

Saving climate

By Dr Abid Qaiyum Suleri Published in The News on December 10, 2023 The Covid-19 pandemic, a phenomenon that eluded previous infectious threats like Ebola, SARS, MERS and swine flu, was declared a pandemic not only due to its contagious nature but also because it posed a threat to humanity, transcending wealth, nationality and religion. Similarly, climate[…]