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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
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Twitter may soon be banned in Pakistan

Here’s what’s happening across the border: Pakistan pays tribute to Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a bureaucratic reshuffle in the offing. 

Why Pakistan Army can’t crush Pashtun uprising as brutally as it did Baloch separatists

Army has arrested members of Pashtun Tahafuz Movement but it hasn’t gone after them with the brutality it has used on Baloch separatists.

Why Pakistan’s Pashtuns are defying the government and marching in Lahore

The tribal community has organised itself to voice its demands after years of resistance against human rights violations. Manzoor Pashteen is leading the way.

Grand Pashtun rally kicks off, demands freedom and release of missing persons

Here's what's happening across the border: Pakistan to consider decriminalising consensual sex on UN's suggestion, and bad healthcare conditions continue to pose a challenge.

Marginalised and ‘victims’ of the war on terror, Pashtuns finally give vent to their anger

Tribal people took out a ‘Pashtun Long March’ from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to Islamabad to protest against the killing of a Pashtun shopkeeper in Karachi.

The Pashtun Long March in Pakistan has ended, but the dreaded encounter cop is still free

The first large protest by the Pashtuns for their rights had become a rage on social media and across the political divide.

Afghan president backs protest against killing of Pashtun man in Pakistan

President Ashraf Ghani calls ‘Pashtun Long March’ historical, says its aim is to mobilise citizens against fundamentalism and terrorism in the region.

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.