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Translated analysis, YPA The strategic location of Yemeni Socotra Island and its presence on the international maritime corridor linking the Indian Ocean and East Asia countries with the rest of the continents made it one of the most important sites in the world from the military point of view to …

Translated article, Alalam website Saudi Finance Minister Abdullah Al-Jadaan has tried to justify the position of King Salman and his son from the responsibility for the deteriorating economic and living conditions of the Saudi citizen, by placing full responsibility on the coronavirus, which has been a guest of the Saudis …

By:Zarrar Khuhro HERE’S a funny story about syphilis: when this venereal disease came to Europe from the ‘New World’ along with Columbus’ sailors, it cut a swathe of death and disfigurement across the continent earning itself the title of the Great Pox. Since it quickly became evident that it spread …

By: Jawed Naqvi DANIEL Ellsberg’s chilling book The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner has kept me riveted recently. How would the 2018 book have had any inkling of the Covid-19 disaster stalking the world today? And yet Ellsberg records an amazing human paradox we have lived with …

AS a practising pulmonologist, I am extremely concerned by the widespread false news that smoking can help protect against the coronavirus. In fact, the opposite is true as cigarettes leave the smoker and those around him or her more vulnerable to the disease. Government guidelines on coronavirus precautions call on …

EDUCATION is a child’s basic right. Even in times of conflict, war or disaster, temporary learning opportunities are set up as part of emergency relief to provide continued learning support. Pakistan has an estimated 22.8 million children from five to 16 outside school. The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and consequent school …

By: Andreas Krieg In the face of the global Covid-19 crisis, and with a third of the world’s population in lockdown, calls for collective action to fight the virus have grown louder – but not in the Gulf, where disinformation campaigns and weaponised narratives continue to widen a gap that …

By:Zarrar Khuhro HERE’S a funny story about syphilis: when this venereal disease came to Europe from the ‘New World’ along with Columbus’ sailors, it cut a swathe of death and disfigurement across the continent earning itself the title of the Great Pox. Since it quickly became evident that it spread …

By:Maleeha Lodhi A CRISIS is a crucial moment in the life of a nation that often denotes much deeper phenomena by laying bare long-standing flaws. The calamity wreaked by Covid-19 has exposed political, economic and social weaknesses in many countries as well as fatal gaps in medical care. The coronavirus …

By: Nasir Abbas OVER the past five decades when autocratic rulers have appeared a bit shaky, the global environment has changed beyond anticipation and almost buttressed their chances of staying in the saddle. After overthrowing Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in July 1977 and even conspiring with the then superior courts to …