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Articles by Muhammad Badar Alam
Arranging an alliance
olitical alliances are like arranged marriages. In both, central characters do not need to agree on everything before their union can be consecrated. An agreement on the bare minimum should do. Also, in each case, several important factors and actors must work diligently together — often behind the scene — to help central characters come together.
Security forces foil attack on Bannu Cantt, killing 6 terrorists
BANNU/KOHAT/ RAWALPINDI: Security forces foiled a terrorist attack on Bannu Cantonment in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, killing at least six militants affiliated with Fitna Al Khwarij, according to security officials on Tuesday. According to security forces, suicide bombers rammed two explosive-laden vehicles against two different gates of the cantonment. According to reports, at least 12 people were martyred, including worshippers and children, and 32 others sustained injuries in the attack.
The obvious and the obscure
t is obvious to most people that the federal government, led by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz is in a tight spot. It may be argued that it has been in the spot since the day it came into power. Thanks mainly to its minority status – since the third largest party in the National Assembly, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), has chosen to back it without assuming executive responsibility – its future has been uncertain from the very beginning.
Calls for higher tobacco taxes gain momentum
ealth experts and policymakers are rallying behind the demand for raising taxes on tobacco products, citing the urgent need to curb smoking and mitigate associated health risks. This support suggests a shifting landscape in tobacco regulation, with mounting pressure to implement measures that could have far-reaching impacts on public health and government revenue.
Microsoft acquires Orions Systems to expand Dynamics 365 capabilities
Helping organizations maximize the potential of their observational data The role of computer vision is rapidly expanding to include helping businesses run better and increase earning potential. Retailers, for example, can better manage their physical spaces by gaining a deeper understanding of customer behavior. However, most brick-and-mortar retailers lack the right data to track real-world behaviors and actions leading to missed opportunities to manage costs and increase revenue.
Intizar Husain: Finding Past Again
Where the sparrows chirp, the cuckoo sings, the trees sway and the monkeys frolic, there lives Intizar Husain. In his idyllic abode, there exists no distance between the human and the natural, between the real and the ethereal. In fact the two worlds appear fused into each other. There is, indeed, no transition from one to the other but only a continuous flow in which everything – even houses, streets, trees, apparitions and ghosts – seems to be an inseparable ingredient of the community’s life.
Why Benazir Bhutto was the daughter of Pakistan
Photo by Reuters How much Benazir was driven by a sense of destiny and how much was she the product of the peculiar circumstances of her life is a question for historians to answer.
Enterprise Asset Management in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
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No middle-class Muslim man in Pakistan is accepting of performing arts: Khalid Ahmed
Many artists, actors, singers and musicians who came of age in the 1970s are either nostalgic about what went before them or unhappy at the current state of performing arts in the country.
Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations, December service update - Now Generally Available!
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In conversation with Pervez Musharraf
Nasir Jamal: How do you know General Raheel Sharif and since when have you known him? Pervez Musharraf: Firstly, his elder brother Shabbir Sharif and I were course mates. But apart from being just course mates, Shabbir Sharif was also a good friend. In the final term of the Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) at Kakul, there are appointments to sort careers. He was an honour student and was the battalion senior under officer. I was also in the run and I was a battalion junior officer.
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