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Nov 29, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Junaid Jahangir
Standard economics is viewed as a value free subject based on mathematical models and statistical techniques. Often economics students are lost in the haze of technical details and are not equipped to address pressing real world issues of ecological damage, climate change, economic inequality, worker precarity, future of work, and post pandemic rising cost of living.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Junaid Jahangir
Recently, veteran actor Shaan Shahid posted a defence of his shirtless pic under a shower, that he had earlier shared on social media. His argument was something to the effect that men are endowed with strength and women with beauty, that he wants to inspire men of his age bracket with fitness, and that we live in a world where men are allowed to go shirtless.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Junaid Jahangir
A book by Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar is the latest from McGill Max Bell Lectures. It has received attention from a wide array of citizens including economists, government officials and independent business representatives, all of whom share concerns on stifled competition and innovation in Canada.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Junaid Jahangir
While the nation celebrated Arshad Nadeem's gold medal in the Paris Olympics, to suggest that Pakistan does not deserve the medal would be akin to raining on the parade. The point is simple: two years ago, at the Commonwealth Games, Arshad Nadeem was recognised along with weightlifter Nooh Dastgir Butt, the boxer Ilyas Hussain, and sprinter Shajar Abbas amongst others. Many such athletes defied the odds without much official patronage.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Ahmad Faruqui |Meezan Zahra Khwaja |Junaid Jahangir |Tariq Aqil
Right after 7 October, President Biden made it a point to visit Prime Minister Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, becoming the first US president to visit Israel in wartime. Biden told Netanyahu that he was standing next to him not just as a US president but as a Christian Zionist. He condemned what Hamas had done, calling it the worst calamity to hit the Jews since the Holocaust. Biden counselled Bibi to not act emotionally, like the US had after 9/11. He cautioned Netanyahu not to invade Gaza.
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May 27, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Kanan Heydarov |Tahir Imran Mian |Tariq Aqil |Junaid Jahangir
Was the incident that claimed the life of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian and other officials an accident or an assassination? What is the next step in this process? In a series of unfortunate events, the helicopter of the President of Iran crashed on the same day as the King of Saudi Arabia was hospitalised with a high fever. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was not heard from for an extended period.
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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 20, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Mohammed Khan |Junaid Jahangir |Tariq Aqil |Ejaz Haider
Not every nation has a state. The Kurds, for example, do not have a state of their own and their numbers are distributed across several states. So, what makes Zionists uniquely entitled to a state? Even if we do concede a right to exist for a Zionist state, why should the Zionist entity be situated in Palestine, a state with a defined territory in which Jews, Christians, Muslims and others have been coexisting peacefully for centuries?
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May 13, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Muhammad Sarwar |Junaid Jahangir |Tariq Aqil |Ejaz Haider
The world is quite aware of the historic brutality, oppression, and dispossession that European colonialists perpetrated against those they deemed lesser humans. From the colonial plantations of slavery where black bodies were eviscerated and dehumanised to the inglorious famine of Bengal, all the atrocities carried the implicit excuse that the Europeans were more civilised than the savages of their colonies, which they themselves were savagely exploiting and dispossessing.
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May 11, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Usman Khan Yousafzai |Syed Faisal Ali |Junaid Jahangir |Tariq Aqil
In an unprecedented criticism of its close ally, one it helped arm, the United States has observed that it was "reasonable to assess" that over the past seven months, Israel used weapons provided by Washington in Gaza in a way that was inconsistent with international humanitarian law. However, the report by the US State Department, released Friday, did not offer any "conclusive findings", essentially nullifying the report and thus failed to block further weapons shipments to Israel.
