Shah Meer Baloch LATE last year, during a visit by Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to Gwadar, a group of locals blocked the road to the airport by staging a sit-in. Their demand? Water. Unlike much of the praise surrounding CPEC in the media, there remain some serious, unaddressed issues. …
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Trump exit from Iran nuclear deal enters uncharted territory
Josh Lederman | Mathew Lee WASHINGTON: It’s not as simple as just saying “we’re out” of the Iran nuclear deal. If President Donald Trump follows through on his threat to pull the US out of the Iran nuclear deal on May 12, the rest of the world will be thrust into uncharted …
Read More »Judicial moot says enforced disappearances are a crime
ISLAMABAD: The declarations passed at the eighth annual Judicial Conference on Saturday centred on themes pertaining to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), as well as enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings, with jurists and legal experts stressing that custodial killings are a crime and those guilty of committing it should be prosecuted …
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