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The woman doctor employed by Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) at Sui in Balochistan, Pakistan’s oldest and largest gas field, discovered and operated…
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Graphically exposed to images of dehumanization of fellow-beings, the brain savaged with stories despicable, how then does every nerve celled in your…
His son Kojo is the cause. Kofi, the dad, running the United Nations as the first black to become the 7th Secretary…
A Pakistani student at Stanford has produced a documentary about re-inventing the Taliban. This she has done on an assignment for the…
Darn, you’re a Pakistani! To top it, you’re a man, 40, without a Green Card. The combo can’t get any deadlier than…
(Sealed off as ‘Top Secret’ by the State Department and CIA, now after three decades, 46 declassified documents – some ‘sanitized’ -…
Bang in the middle of New York’s busiest bus terminal, the Port Authority, two women attendants at a news-stand share dates as…
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