9 US sailors injured in fire on aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln. The Navy’s ongoing effort to prevent shipboard fires has suffered a setback. On Wednesday, the U.S. Third Fleet released a brief statement, detailing a fire aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), one of America’s few deployable aircraft carriers in the Pacific. The Navy […]
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CPEC offering low cost energy in Pakistan
Tauseef H. Farooqi, Chairman of the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority, stated that energy projects associated with the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) have enhanced Pakistan’s electricity industry and aided in economic growth by boosting power supply while lowering costs and achieving high levels of efficiency. The entire installed capacity of the CPEC energy projects, which […]
Ex-US diplomats urge Biden to stop providing arms to new Israeli regime
Ex-US diplomats urge Biden to stop providing arms to new Israeli regime. Two former American diplomats have called on the administration of US President Joe Biden to no longer provide offensive weapons or military aid to Israel’s new regime, expressing fear that the far-right extremists would further aggravate the situation in the occupied cities of […]
FIFA World Cup balls: Are they chargeable?
The World Cup balls are charged before every game. The balls used at the World Cup in Qatar have a high-tech sensor which needs to be charged. The sensor is powered by a small battery, which Adidas said can last for six hours of active use, or up to 18 days when not. The sensor, […]
Russian mercenary videos ‘top 1bn views’ on TikTok
TikTok is hosting dozens of videos that glorify violence by Russia’s Wagner Group of mercenaries and they have been viewed more than a billion times, according to a new report. Wagner has sent mercenaries into Ukraine in big numbers. US-based NewsGuard, which focuses on online misinformation, says some of the videos appear to show the […]
No-confidence motions to be tabled in KP, Punjab assemblies: Zardari
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has made an announcement bringing no-confidence motions to the provincial assemblies of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “If Imran Khan dissolves the provincial assemblies, we will contest the election,” the former president said in a private TV channel interview “We will contest the election, let’s see how many […]
Neo-Colonial Alliances and the Crisis of Pakistan
Poverty, diseases, climate change, ethnic conflicts, institutional imbalance, and regional conflicts are the most alarming threats to Pakistan. Pakistan being an underdeveloped country, more than one-third of its population lives below the poverty line, and the vast majority lacks access to basic human rights and needs like health, education, food, safe water, a safe environment, […]
Eurocentric Ideas in the National Education Policy of Pakistan
It is assertive that Pakistan’s National Education Policy brings in little benefits because of the domination of Eurocentric biases that dominated our development thinking through Western-centric research and pedagogical arrangements. The education policy landscape has been revamped by globalization. Education development in Pakistan is seen as a hegemonic form of representation of international development institutions […]