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By Aruhan Galieva I was born in Leeds, United Kingdom to Stina Wilson, a fantastic, world class classical Flautist, and Marat Bisengaliev a world renowned Violinist and now Artistic Director of the Symphony of India so my fate as a creative was sealed in utero! Although my dad has such an entrepreneurial spirit, something I very much aspire to cultivate more in myself. I’m always asked, do I feel more ‘British’ or a ‘Daughter of the free Kazakh Steppes’? I think it’s important to celebrate both aspects equally, however I sometimes feel trapped between two cultures and worlds with neither…

BUREAU REPORT KARCHI: Pakistan’s security agencies foiled a terrorist attack in the morning on Monday killing all four terrorists. Four security men including a police Inspector and three guards laid their lives defending thousands of innocent officials and common citizens inside the building. According to police , four terrorists believed to be highly trained and well equipped stormed at the main gate of the Pakistan Stock Exchange compound in Karachi, Pakistan’s financial hub, and unleashed a gun and grenade attack on Monday morning, minutes after work started in the building where almost 14000 people work normally. Excellent coordination among the…

Turkish airstrikes in Iraq’s Sinjar Mountains this month are endangering the safety of the Yazidis and Christian Assyrians, Iraq’s indigenous people. These ethnic minorities were targeted for genocide by ISIS beginning in 2014. Pictured: Battle-damaged buildings in the town of Sinjar, Iraq photographed on February 5, 2019. (Photo by Zaid Al-Obeidi/AFP via Getty Images)

BY KASWAR KLASRAIslamabad: Dr. Shakil Afridi, a doctor who risked his life only to help Americans trace whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden, may be languishing in a jail in Pakistan for rest of his life as Pakistan’s charismatic Prime Minister believes ‘OBL’ was a martyr. If Imran Khan is to be believed, Dr. Afridi actually helped the US to martyr OBL. Hence, chances are thin for Afridi’s sympathizers to get him out of jail. Making a speech to Parliament last week, a visibly perturb Prime Minster Khan clearly said Americans martyred Osama bin Laden. Khan used the word “shaheed” -…

ISLAMABAD TELEGRAPH REPORTISLAMABAD: As cases of corona-virus spike in Pakistan, people are restricting themselves to home avoiding shopping and market-trotting. Big shopping malls in twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad a have observed huge reduction in number of visitors soon after Prime Minister Imran Khan requested people of Pakistan to avoid unnecessary trips to markets and public places. Pakistan has avoided imposing strict lockdown since the novel coronavirus emerged in the central China city of Wuhan towards the end of last year and proliferated to almost the whole world within a couple of months. Markets have been opened across country…

By Mashal Hassan Sahibzada Note: It’s a bone-chilling story of a daughter who lost her father allegedly due to negligence and incompetence of management and staff at Islamabad’s ‘MAROOF INTERNATIOAL HOSPITAL’ I stood there watching him, laying in that ICU bed oxygenated to help him breathe and ease his suffering. Although my heart was breaking in so many different ways unknown to me, my mind clogged with fear and pain of seeing the suffering of the man who was a source of my strength in this world. That sinking feeling in my heart was making my mind numb. I kept…

BY MEHR YASIN Islambad: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday looked fresh, and confident as he delivered a well-prepared speech in country’s lower house of parliament on Thursday. As expected, charismatic Imran defended his government’s response to the corona-virus crisis. “There has been no confusion or contradiction in official policies since the start of the pandemic of Covid-19. Government has been dealing with the pandemic n a consistent, yet smart way,” Khan said. There was pin drop silence in the lower house of parliament during Prime Minister’s speech in the Parliament Today. Even members of opposition parties were attentive to…

[ First published in The Gatestone Institute]By Majid RafizadehThe Iranian regime is now comfortably violating all the restrictions of the nuclear deal it never signed, according to the latest report by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).The ruling mullahs have increased their total stockpile of low-enriched uranium from 1,020.9 kilograms (1.1 tons) to 1,571.6 kilograms (1.73 tons), as of May 20, 2020. This is approximately eight times more than what the regime was allowed to maintain under the misbegotten nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Tehran had been permitted to…

By Haroon Siraj and Usman Nadeem Special ReportSwat: The fashion industry has thrived and grown rapidly over the past decade in Pakistan.Pakistan offers thousands of options in shawls and embroidery pieces across the country. The choices and variety are unlimited especially since the modern era of fashion industry has prevailed so much. Yet the Islampuri Shawls their warmth and color rich embroidery pieces always tweaked Naseem’s heart. Naseem travels every year from Islamabad to Islampur to buy these extravagant embroidery pieces of clothing especially the Islampuri handmade pure wool shawls, she believes that the quality she finds in SWAT is…

BY KASWAR KLASRA ISLAMABAD: One of the greatest American athletes Yolanda Gail Devers once said, ” Keep your dreams alive. Understand that to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication.  Remember all things are possible for those who believe.” Gail Devers had said the same for ‘Marat Bisengaliev’ one of the greatest violinists of today’s world. Marat Bisengaliev, is a Kazakh violinist and conductor of both the Western Kazakhstan Philharmonic Orchestra and The Almaty Symphony Orchestra. He is one of the non standing directors of the Association of Asian Pacific Regional Orchestras. In…