The only figure that the regime deems worthy of open adulation is President Emomali Rahmon. Authorities in Tajikistan have within the space of a week forced the closure of two important religious institutions in the capital: a tariqa, or school, used by adherents of the Ismaili Shia faith and a bookshop trading in Islamic literature.
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Col (r) Ikram Ullah Khan It’s common observation that whenever we are struck by some disaster, we tend to lay the blame squarely at Nature’s door attributing it to God’s wrath vis-a-vis human beings believing that the disaster has come as a manifestation of God’s displeasure and as a retribution for our misdeeds. We abortively
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ISLAMABAD: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that Pakistan needed “massive” financial support for relief, recovery, and rehabilitation in the wake of the catastrophic floods that displaced more than 33 million people and are estimated to have caused $30 billion of damage. He made the remarks after attending a briefing at the National Flood Response
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BOONI: Biyar Local Support Organization (BLSO) distributed relief items among the flood affected families in four villages of Upper Chitral, says a press release. The relief items arranged with the help of Chitral-origin Canadian philanthropist Dastagir Nawaz Khan were distributed among 49 families of Khuz, Pavur, Awi and Reshun. Along with basic food items, Rs10,000
ISLAMABAD: Google, Institute of Rural Management (IRM) and Ignite have launched Google Career Certification program in Pakistan. IRM and Ignite have signed an MoU in Islamabad to achieve the Google Career Certification targets. At the signing ceremony, CEO Ignite Asim Shahryar Hussain said: “This agreement shall provide both Ignite and IRM with a framework to
