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Pakistan has announced a new government-run instant digital payment system called Raast or “Direct Way” in a bid to boost financial inclusion and government revenue in the country.  According to the State Bank of Pakistan, the moving force behind Raast, the new digital system will be rolled out in three phases culminating in early 2022. […]

The New Year, which was expected to usher in glad tidings in the wake of the challenges of COVID-19 and the political impasse created by the opposition, instead, revived the horrors of terrorism, supposedly on the decline. The horrendous strike occurred in Pakistan’s soft underbelly, Balochistan and the victims are the hapless Hazaras. According to […]

Indian media had wreaked havoc with the news that Hindus were migrating to India from Pakistan purporting that they were escaping the alleged harsh treatment and marginalization of minorities by extremist Muslims. Indian flogging of Pakistan was short lived because very soon the Hindus started returning to Pakistan.  The harsh truth dawned on them that […]

Bihari is a generic term, which implies the migrants from the Indian state of Bihar, who headed for then East Pakistan, after the partition of India in 1947. Later all Urdu speaking people, even the Punjabis, Pathans, Sindhi and Baloch from West Pakistan, who were posted to East Pakistan or settled in the Eastern Wing, […]

The exposé by European Union’s DisinfoLab in its 90-page report has shocked the world because it unearths the machinations of an international network funded by organizations with Indian leanings. The detailed disclosures labeled “Indian Chronicles” comprise 265 fake media outlets, multiple dubious think tanks and NGOs, financed by Indian or pro-Indian entities surreptitiously working to […]

The ongoing farmer riots in India have taken an ugly turn, with the powerful international Sikh Diaspora in Canada, UK and the USA urging their governments to express concern over the rapidly deteriorating grave situation, especially in the backdrop of COVID-19. India is an agrarian country with around 70% of its people depending directly or […]

Various Indian leaders have indulged in rhetoric regarding Kashmir, which they illegally occupied on 27 October 1947 and have been claiming it as an integral part of its Union. Pakistan tried to liberate Kashmir from India’s clutches during the 1947-1948 limited war but when only one-third was liberated, India approached the UN Security Council, seeking […]

The transition of the head of states following the US presidential elections 2020 is gradually moving towards its logical conclusion. US General Services Administration ascertained on November 23 that President-elect Joe Biden is the “apparent winner” of the November 3 election, clearing the way for the start of the transition from President Donald Trump’s administration […]

The guns have finally silenced after the most recent conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia. Apparently, in only 40 days, Azerbaijan achieved what it had been struggling for over 30 years. The first Nagorno-Karabakh war started as an ethnic and territorial conflict that took place from the late 1980s to May 1994, in the enclave of […]

The 24th edition of the Malabar exercise commenced on 3rd November 2020. Exercise Malabar is a trilateral naval exercise involving the United States, Japan and India as permanent partners. Originally, Malabar commenced in 1992 as a bilateral exercise between India and the United States. The first naval exercise, named Malabar-I, between India and the United […]