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ON our national stage, where only the PDM’s survival and the government’s economic policies seem to be worth obsessing over, there is another story which has a small group of people interested. As it concerns the education sector, one should be grateful that even a handful are paying attention.
The government’s decision to remove the Higher Education Commission’s chairman, Tariq Banuri, has provoked a round of allegations and counter-allegations, mostly in the English press.
A spate of opinion pieces have appeared in the English-language papers defending the chairman whose ‘thankless’ fight to improve the standards in higher education hurt the interests of various groups who ‘ganged up’ to push him out. It appeared that he wanted to ensure quality before doling out funds for scholarships, research centres and universities. And as is routine in Pakistan, anyone who wants to stem the flow (regardless of the reasons for it) of money from th
Kashmir – The Next Military Objective For Azerbaijan, Turkey, And Pakistan
March 2, 2021 | By Tufail Ahmad
After the Pakistani military helped Azerbaijan s armed forces defeat Armenia in the Nagorno-Karabakh War (September 27-November 10, 2020), it appears that Azerbaijan is seeking, in an act of reciprocity, to assist Pakistan on the issue of Kashmir. This reciprocity – growing out of the trilateral military alliance, also involving Turkey, that engineered Azerbaijan s military victory – is now driving these war partners to target Kashmir as their next military objective.[1] The Indian portion of Jammu & Kashmir – the former independent princely state divided between India and Pakistan since 1947 – has witnessed more than three decades of jihadi terrorism backed by the Pakistani military, especially its Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI).
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Senate election presidential ordinance based on malicious intent : Raza Rabbani
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Saturday Feb 20, 2021
Former Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani speaking during a press conference in Karachi, opposing the govt s decision to meddle with the upcoming Senate elections, on December 16, 2020. YouTube/Hum News Live/File
PPP s Senator Raza Rabbani says President Arif Alvi went against the Constitution after he promulgated the open ballot ordinance
Through the ordinance, the government paved the way for an opportunity to undermine the Upper House, he says
President promulgated the ordinance to control the hostility within the government s ranks, Rabbani adds
PPP Senator Raza Rabbani said Saturday that the PTI government s presidential ordinance to amend the secret-balloting method in the Senate elections was based on malicious intent .