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By  Con Coughlin To judge by the jubilant Palestinian celebrations that greeted the ceasefire that ended 11 days of fighting in the Gaza Strip, US President Joe Biden’s belief that the agreement presents a “genuine opportunity to make progress” on resolving tensions between Israel and the Palestinians seems naively optimistic. Moreover, the same can be said of the president’s pledge to provide Gaza with humanitarian and reconstruction aid to help the Palestinian residents in the wake of the latest outbreak of fighting between Israel and the Palestinians. Speaking shortly after the ceasefire had been implemented, Mr Biden said the White House would…

By A. Hafiz The most famous statement ever attributed to Abraham Lincoln is, “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time”. Elaborating it further, any charismatic leader as we have seen in remote and recent history, cannot fanaticize people with Charisma all the time rather the economic and performance in governance set the path forward for any nation’s progressive future. History tells us that charismatic leadership only can mobilize people for some set period of time but for longer term stability and…

By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) and Microsoft Pakistan have announced 2 Pakistani National winners for Microsoft Student hackathon. The judges were impressed by the incredible breadth of ideas and the technology that brought them to life in the Virtual Semi finals held in Pakistan. Team “QueryCity” from FAST NUCES Peshawar Campus and Team “AI Based Ophthalmology Grading” from NUST CEME Rawalpindi have fetch the crown to represented Pakistan at world finals. The National Winners have been awarded with Rupees 100,000 cash prize each and as a World Finalist both teams also received USD 1,000 in Azure credits. The runner-up teams have also been…

By Our Staff Reporter Lahore: With a view to honour WAPDA Kabaddi players of Pakistan World Cup 2020 Squad, WAPDA Sports Board (WSB) organized a prize distribution ceremony at WAPDA House. Lt Gen Muzammil Hussain (Retd), WSB’s Patron-in-Chief and Chairman of WAPDA graced the occasion as chief guest of the ceremony and presented cash awards – Rs. 180,000 each – to seven WAPDA Kabaddi players and two officials. The players included Muhammad Shafique Chishti, Beniameen Malik, Qamar Zaman Butt, Arslan Mahmood (Shani Basra), Musharraf Javed Janjua, Akmal Shahzad Dogar and Khalid Hussain Bhatti, while the officials included Muhammad Razzaq Gill…

By Our Staff Reporter Muzaffarabad: Describing tourism as the economic future of Azad Kashmir, AJK President Sardar Masood Khan said that the state government was working on a comprehensive plan to improve roads and allied infrastructure to promote tourism in the liberated area. He said this while talking to a delegation led by Raja Shamshad Khan from the Dheerkot area of Azad Kashmir. The delegation comprising Saba Shamshad Advocate, Raja Zeeshan, Raja Azlan and others apprised the President about the public issues of the area. President Masood said that Dheerkot is beautiful place close to the capital Islamabad, Murree and…

By Serene Sarah Zachariah India has made its first COVID-19 vaccine. The developers of the drug, the Hyderabad-based firm Bharat Biotech in collaboration with India’s National Institute of Virology and Indian Council of Medical Research, have received approval from the drug control authorities to conduct human clinical trials of the vaccine christened ‘COVAXIN’.This is the same firm that created the world’s cheapest Hepatitis vaccine and was the first in the world to find a vaccine for the Zika virus. Dr Krishna Ella was born to a middle-class family of farmers hailing from Thiruthani, Tamil Nadu. He first set out into…

By National News Desk London: A gang of unidentified men tried to force their entry into office of Mian Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan’s three-time formwe Prime Ministwr former prime ministe in London. The attempt to harass Pakistan’s most popular politician has been widely condemned across the globe while his party has dubbed the incident as cowardly and sinister. “Strongly condemn [the] cowardly attempt to barge into the office of Hussain Nawaz where Mian Nawaz Sharif was also present. They seemed to be armed and clearly had a sinister design but thankfully, could not succeed. London police must investigate the incident from…

By Our Staff Reporter Chaman, Balochistan: A powerful bomb blast killed six people in Balochistan’s Chaman city on Friday. Spokesperson of government confirmed the incident. ” Unfortunately, six people have been martyred and 14 others were injured in a blast in Chaman on Friday afternoon. As per government directions, best available treatment is being given to the injured in hospital,” Balochistan government spokesman Liaquat Shahwani told “Islamabad Telegraph.” Powerful blast ripped through a rally held by the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam – Nazaryati (JUI) to show solidarity with Palestine. Fourteen people inclusing the chief organizer of rally received multiple wounds. According to…

By Our Staff Correspondent Islamabad: In a move which millions of Pakistanis have been waiting for long, Amazon has added Pakistan in its seller’s list. “The Ministry of Commerce is pleased to announce that Pakistan has been added today in the sellers list of Amazon—one of the world’s largest e-Commerce platform. This marks the accomplishment of a milestone of the National e-Commerce Policy, and is the outcome of sustained engagement with Amazon since the last quarter of 2019 by the Ministry of Commerce, Pakistan’s Embassy in Washington, and the Consulate General in Los Angeles and the Pakistani diaspora on the…

First published by The Gatestone Institute By Soeren Kern Pro-Palestinian demonstrations in cities across Europe have descended into unrestrained orgies of anti-Semitism after protesters opposed to Israeli military action in the Gaza Strip openly called for the destruction of Israel and death to Jews. The protesters, numbering in the tens-to-the-hundreds of thousands, include a hodgepodge of anarchists, hard-left anti-Israel activists and immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa. Many demonstrators — carrying flags of Muslim countries, including Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Tunisia, Turkey and Syria, as well as the green flag of the Islamist terrorist group Hamas and the…