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Topic: Pakistan

Pakistanis think Coke Studio Season 15 is pathetic, succumbed to clichéd musical choices

A majority of social media users and two national newspapers have given ‘Coke Studio 15’ a thumbs down. The verdict is clear—only a few are loving it there.

Pakistani celebs celebrate PML(N)’s 100 days in power. People call it ‘paid promotion’

From Sanam Saeed and Urwa Hocane to singer Aima Beg, Pakistani celebrities received backlash from fans for promoting a 'fascist govt'.

Pakistanis don’t want Fawad Khan comeback to be a ‘random Bollywood film’. Indians excited

Social media critics in both India and Pakistan are not approving of Fawad Khan and Vaani Kapoor's pairing. Pakistanis think Sonam Kapoor was the better Kapoor for him. They want #JusticeForFawad.

Fawad Khan returns to Indian screens after 8 years. Pakistanis declare ‘King is back’

Fawad Khan's comeback show, Barzakh, is about a 76-year-old recluse man inviting his children and grandchildren home to celebrate his third marriage to the ghost of his first love.

Pakistan’s wheat crisis continues to hurt farmers. Exporters want to sell grain, govt confused

Former finance minister of Pakistan, Miftah Ismail, said that the country’s government should now ‘get out of the business of setting up wheat prices’.

Pakistani fundamentalists closer to controlling state. Now the battle is over baby milk bank

Islamic clerics push back against human milk banks as Shari’a proscribes marriages between so-called milk siblings. But several Islamic countries, including Iran, operate them.

Pakistani man accused of blasphemy burnt to death. People say it’s a lawless, crazy nation

Pakistani activists and journalists condemned the incident and accused the radical Tehreek-e-Labbaik of such cases of violence in the country's Swat Valley.

On Bakrid, Pakistani police made sure the Ahmadiyyas were harassed—arrests, meat raids, FIRs

At least 36 Ahmadiyyas have been arrested and nine FIRs filed against them. These people, mostly from Pakistan’s Punjab province, have been charged with illegally performing animal sacrifice on Eid al-Adha.

‘No country has locus standi to comment’ — India rejects references to Kashmir in Pak-China statement

MEA statement also mentions the references to China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), particularly concerning projects located in territories under Pakistan's ‘illegal occupation’.

Pakistani cricketers have made bigotry a habit. Kamran Akmal comment on Sikhs just the latest

Even their own team isn’t spared. After Pakistan’s loss to India on Sunday, former player Ijaz Ahmed made a comment on national TV, blaming Pashtun cricketers for the defeat.

On Camera

This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.