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Kumar Sangakkara says England, Australia must tour Pakistan

Kumar Sangakkara says England, Australia must tour Pakistan

Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) President Kumar Sangakkara has stated that England and Australia must tour Pakistan to facilitate regular international cricket in the South Asian country.

Top teams have shunned Pakistan since the 2009 attack on a bus carrying the Sri Lanka team in Lahore in which six players were injured and eight Pakistanis, including six policemen, were killed.

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Freemasons - their illustrious history and presence in Pakistan

Freemasons – their illustrious history and presence in Pakistan

From designing pyramids to plotting French Revolution, a plethora of strange conspiracy theories had been pinned on to Freemasons since its inception. However, it’s important to discern fact from fiction.

The origins of the Freemasons are obscure and subject to intense speculation, not to mention their bizarre secret rituals. The available documents and scholarships traced back the group…

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Pakistan’s toxic relationship with mullahism

There is no concept of priesthood in Islam. There is no criteria of attire or appearance in Islam. And there is no pass to use the name of God for political, social, or financial gains in Islam. How come, one wonders then, the mullah has crept into the very framework of the constitution of Pakistan, so much so, he has the country by her throat?

“Wear a mask if you have to, but mosques will…

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Khan’s incompetence is going to cost us a country

During his first national address concerning the novel coronavirus, unfortunately-Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan stated that the COVID-19 virus, which has until now, infected 200,000 and killed over 8,000 people worldwide isn’t “serious enough” to lockdown the country.

In his national address, coming weeks late in the first place, Khan absolutely failed to convince the country of the…

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Australia bushfires, explained

Bushfires continue to rage in Australia this week having now torched an area almost as large as West Virginia since the current round of blazes ignited last September.

It’s already one of Australia’s worst fire seasons on record and the deadly heat, wind, smoke, and flames show no signs of letting up through the weekend. Fire risk in parts of the country will reach “extreme” and “catastrophic”…

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Pakistan's Best of the Decade

Pakistan’s Best of the Decade

Through storms of political biases, domestic and foreign insurgencies, and financial and social emergencies, Pakistan has emerged – every time a little stronger. And the people responsible for putting the country in these desperate of situations and the people responsible for taking the country out of them are plenty. Bisouv, in its first ever public issue, celebrates the latter.

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Turkey's maiden domestic drive

Turkey’s maiden domestic drive

Long after first mentioning the idea of a domestically-produced electric car, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has finally unveiled prototypes of the country’s first ‘Made in Turkey’ automobile.

Turkey’s first “national” automobile as Erdogan called it was showcased at a ceremony in Gebze, in Turkey’s northwestern industrial heartland. Erdogan showcased the SUV and sedan models of the car,…

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Blinding Justice and a Case of Uniforms

Blinding Justice and a Case of Uniforms

‘Former Dictator Pervez Musharraf has been sentenced to death,’ read the English newspaper in bold against white, folded cleanly, and displayed on one of many wooden stands that housed every publication from Urdu masalas to the high-end European fashion magazines, ‘The time for democracy is now,’ read another. The Musharraf High-Treason Verdict had taken the country by a storm, so much so, it had…

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Independence Day: Sale of Kashmiri flags on the rise

Independence Day: Sale of Kashmiri flags on the rise

MUZAFFARABAD, Azad Kashmir/KARACHI, Pakistan: Sale of Kashmiri flags, badges and other decoration items have gained impetus ahead of Independence Day after the federal government had announced to observe August 14 as Kashmir Solidarity Day, ARY News reported on Thursday.

As marking of 73rd Independence Day is right around the corner, the preparations have gained momentum as a huge rush of people…

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Honda, Toyota halt production in Pakistan

Honda, Toyota halt production in Pakistan

KARACHI, Pakistan: Honda Atlas Cars Pakistan (HACP) shut down its plant for 10 days on Friday as its inventories piled up to 2,000 units on plummeting car sales amid rising prices due to imposition of new, higher taxes in the budget and steep currency devaluation in the recent weeks.

Similarly, Indus Motor Company (IMC), which produces Toyota models in Pakistan, has also decided to stop car…

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Remembering Pakistan's first foreign agent Fatima Jinnah

Remembering Pakistan’s first foreign agent Fatima Jinnah

Soon after Liaquat Ali Khan’s assassination and Pakistan’s plunging into absolute political and economical abyss, the mother of nation Fatima Jinnah decided to retire to her Flagstaff House in Karachi. Her hair textured shades of grey and her eyes a little more tired than usual, Miss Fatima had fallen silent for a moment. With the memory of her dear brother fresh in her mind, she found herself…

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Maryam's interview "stopped forcefully:" Nadeem Malik

Maryam’s interview “stopped forcefully:” Nadeem Malik

An interview of Maryam Nawaz Sharif, a vice president of the PML-N, was “forcefully” taken off air soon after it was run, it was reported on Thursday.

“Just came to know Maryam Nawaz Sharif’s interview has been stopped forcefully just [a] few minutes after it started live,” tweeted show host Nadeem Malik.

Hum News, the channel on which the interview was aired for a few brief moments, released a…

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Several dead and dozens injured in Pakistan train collision

Several dead and dozens injured in Pakistan train collision

RAHIM YAR KHAN, Pakistan: A collision between a passenger train and a stationary freight train near the central town of Rahim Yar Khan in Pakistan has killed at least 10 people, with more than 70 others injured, according to police and hospital officials.

The incident on Thursday took place at the Walhar railway station, located about 35km south of Rahim Yar Khan.

“The Akbar Express [passenger…

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Imran Khan not invited: Russia

Imran Khan not invited: Russia

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan/MOSCOW, Russia: Russia has conveyed to India that it has not invited Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan to the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok in September.

Diplomatic sources told ET that the Russian government has dismissed as “baseless” reports in Pakistan media that Khan has been invited for the forum.

“We draw attention to the publications in a number of South Asian…

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U-Turn of the month: the return of Fayyaz Chohan

U-Turn of the month: the return of Fayyaz Chohan

ISLAMABAD: In what the opposition is announcing as another turnaround from Imran Khan’s government, former Punjab Minister of Information and Culture Fayyalul Hassan Chohan has been given the portfolio of Minister of Forestry, Fisheries, and Wildlife in the Punjab government.

The oath was administered by Speaker Punjab Assembly Chaudhry Pervez Elahi and was attended by likes of Chief Minister…

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Arrest me if you want to, I won’t run away like your master Musharraf: Hamid Mir

Arrest me if you want to, I won’t run away like your master Musharraf: Hamid Mir

Hamid Mir recently posted a video on his very own Vlog Hamid Mir Online, in which he has challenged the establishment to arrest him if they want to instead of issuing empty threats through various sources. The top journalist made it clear to the aliens at work that he is not a coward like dictator Pervez Musharraf and unlike him he won’t evade arrest if any charges are pressed against him.

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Questioning Team India’s sportsmanship post England loss India’s suspicious performance against the scarred England has raised a lot of eyebrows, so much so, several experts and former players are accusing India of tarnishing the spirit of the wonderful game that is cricket.