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Sep 27, 2024 | 
see.news | Ishtiaq Ahmed
Fri 27 Sep 2024 | 07:22 PM PM-UNGA-AddressBy Ishtiaq Ahmed Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday warned the world community that the illegal occupation of Palestine and Kashmir was creating a "fresh hell" every day and stressed the efforts for dispute resolution, besides addressing the global challenges of terrorism, climate change and Islamophobia. "Illegal occupation creates a fresh hell, every day, in the killing fields of Palestine, and in occupied Jammu and Kashmir...
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
pakobserver.net | Ishtiaq Ahmed
THE 2021 Higher Education Commission (HEC) Policy for students with disabilities at higher education institutions (HEIs) in Pakistan upholds the value of individuals with disabilities and emphasizes the duty of the HEC and all HEIs to ensure equitable access to higher education.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
pakobserver.net | Ishtiaq Ahmed
THE 2021 Higher Education Commission (HEC) Policy for Students with Disabilities at Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Pakistan upholds the value of individuals with disabilities and emphasizes the duty of the HEC and all HEIs to ensure equitable access to higher education.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
bmjopensem.bmj.com | Patrick Owen |Ishtiaq Ahmed |Aamir Memon |Nash Anderson
Meta-analysisSportsExerciseMedicineSystematic reviews with meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials are often considered the highest form of scientific evidence. Meta-analyses are an indispensable tool offering a statistically powerful method to pool effect estimates from multiple studies. However, the methodology of meta-analysis is often fraught with complexities and challenges that can markedly impact conclusions and generalisability.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Muhammad Toheed |Ishtiaq Ahmed |Fawzia Afzal-Khan |Raza Rumi
The book under review is a biography of actor Shyam (born Sialkot 20 February 1920 died Bombay 25 April 1951) who died when he was shooting for the film Shabistan (1951). He had almost finished riding the horse during shooting when the stirrup broke, he lost balance and fell off the horse. He received fatal head injuries and died. He was only 31. Shyam was an enlightened, broadminded individual who read a lot of English and Urdu literature. Saadat Hasan Manto was one of his closest friends.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Muhammad Toheed |Umer Farooq |Mohammed Anas |Ishtiaq Ahmed
Dr. Ilhan Niaz is a superbly impressive historian of Pakistan. His work is more convincing than any other historian our society has produced. Another name that comes to mind is Dr. Tariq Rehman—aloso an impressive Pakistani historian. I often wonder if a society can nurture people like Dr. Niaz and Dr. Rehman, how can it be described as decadent and depraved, as some moralists dub Pakistan?
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Muhammad Toheed |Basil Dogra |Ishtiaq Ahmed |Arshad Yousafzai
The truth of the matter is that this culture of vigilante murder of people accused of blasphemy dates back to 1929, when Ilm Deen killed Mahashe Rajpal in Lahore. This was a clear case of murder, but Deen was widely defended by the Muslim political and intellectual elite at the time.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Talal Faisal Ismaili |Farida Gul |Ishtiaq Ahmed |Rabia Ahmed
We all know what it feels like to be out in the open air. Yet once we try to pin it down within established categories and conventions of thought, no experience could be more elusive. What is the open air? Does it circulate in the sky or the atmosphere? Are these the same or different? If the atmosphere surrounds our planet, and the sky arches above our heads, then in what shape or form can the earth exist in relation to the sky?
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Ishtiaq Ahmed |Rabia Ahmed |Mohammed Anas |Syed Hassan Haadi
Aamir Butt is a medical doctor based in the UK, but he visits Lahore at least once every year. He was born in Lahore but grew up in Rawalpindi. A great connoisseur of poetry, he has now published a labour of love devoted to Lahore. The book is written in short writeups, some less than two pages. The ambition is to capture as multifaceted charms of Lahore in both historical and contemporary terms as possible. The author acquits himself with flying colours.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Yasser Latif Hamdani |Mumtaz Hussain |Sabih Ul Hussnain |Ishtiaq Ahmed
Make no mistake about it: a physical and cultural genocide of Ahmadis is under way in Pakistan. There is no other way to describe it. The world must take note of this before precious lives are lost. There are all indications that Pakistan has crossed the threshold of the “preparation” stage, and is now well into the “extermination” stage. This Eid ul Azha has seen incidents of persecution treble.
