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Jun 24, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Hasan Zafar |Sabih Ul Hussnain |Beelam Ramzan |Kamran Khamiso Khowaja
Anyone who understands cricket knows what the batsman at number six is like. This position, known as the late middle order, is typically where an all-rounder comes in to bat. This is where Imran Khan played at the peak of his cricketing career. His peers, England's Ian Botham and India's Kapil Dev, celebrated all-rounders of their time, also batted at this position. A close examination of these players reveals a common trait in their batting style – they were all aggressive players.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Tariq Aqil |Farrukh Javed Abbasi |Beelam Ramzan |Ishtiaq Ahmed
Pakistan has been the a base or played host to many terrorist groups in the past and continues to do so even today. The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Al Qaeda, Lashkar-i-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and numerous other religious-based terror groups who want to impose their writ in the guise of Islamic Sharia through the barrel of a gun.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Umer Farooq |Ahmad Faruqui |Leena Moin Aziz |Beelam Ramzan
David B. Edwards’ book "Caravan of Martyrs: Sacrifice and Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan" offers a fascinating and insightful exploration into the alarming transformation of sacrificial violence within Afghanistan.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Beelam Ramzan |Saeed Shafqat |Ahmad Faruqui |Ikramul Haq
Last December, I attended an European Union (EU)-funded energy event in Ho Chi Minh city (Vietnam) that focused on the market dynamics of liquefied natural gas. The event was spearheaded by an Italian professor with a full-time position at the European University Institute.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Meezan Zahra Khwaja |Tariq Aqil |Beelam Ramzan |Bilal Hyder Simair
We are all currently witnessing the genocide taking place in Palestine – mass murder, carnage, starvation and utter hopelessness. Under these circumstances you might be wondering how it is even possible to talk of a one-state solution to the Palestine-Israel conflict – much less advise it in detail. The authors in this book, however, mostly beg to disagree and think that the one-state solution is not only possible but for some of them, it remains the only viable option.
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May 20, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Ahmad Faruqui |Junaid Jahangir |Beelam Ramzan |Tariq Aqil
A most outlandish claim was made by Israel’s ambassador to the UN about the connection of that key international institution to Palestinian movement Hamas. The Israeli ambassador then went a step further and said the UN was a terrorist organisation. He was upset that the UN General Assembly voted 143-9 in favour of granting more rights to the Palestinians at the UN. Israel is opposed to the creation of a Palestinian state.
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May 15, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Sabih Ul Hussnain |Abdul Moiz Jaferii |Beelam Ramzan |Shahid Rahim
As many as 66 public sector universities in the country are currently headless, the Supreme Court was informed. The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has submitted a document to the top court that there are some 66 Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) out of a total of 154 in the public sector, where the post of Vice-Chancellor (VC)/ Rector is either being officiated on acting charge basis while the post in six HEIs is completely vacant.
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May 12, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Ahmad Faruqui |Ejaz Haider |Patryk Tadeusz |Beelam Ramzan
The gulf between the young generation and the aging president could not be wider. It is as if they live on different planets. Protests have made their way to the cover of TIME and New Yorker magazines, and are being covered extensively by The New York Times and The Times (London). While local police have brutally arrested more than 2,000 students, the anger felt by thousands of students on more than 200 campuses has not subsided.
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May 9, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Tariq Aqil |Junaid Jahangir |Patryk Tadeusz |Beelam Ramzan
On the 1st of April 2024, the Israeli airborne onslaught on the Iranian consular office in Damascus resulted in the death of 11 people, including the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps Commander (IRGC) Brigadier Mohammad Reza Zahedi, his deputy and at least five IRGC advisors. Iran was quick to hit back with hundreds of drones and missiles in retaliation for the murder of its senior military officers and the damage to its consulate building in Damascus.
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May 3, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Huma Ijaz Zaman |Junaid Jahangir |Patryk Tadeusz |Beelam Ramzan
Large segments of the population of the West have empathised with Palestinian cause while it is the governments/establishments who have shown no apathy. The question is whether this is true democracy, sham democracy or autocracy. Palestine has exposed many countries to question and introspect their own human rights and democratic norms.
