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The unfortunate norm in PK higher education is paying a huge amount of money for publication, including the name of your supervisors/all influential folks in dept as coauthors. The latest unethical practice is the eid sale of article publication in HEC recognised journals [1/2]

Even if ISKP, aka Daesh, receives open support from across the border, similar to the assistance Pakistan provided to the Gulbadeen Hikmatyar faction of Hizb-e-Islami in overthrowing the Salafi state of Sheikh Jameel-ur-Rehman in Kunar in the late 1980s, it is unlikely that ISKP…

Even Zardari is turning out to be a bigger politician than Nawaz. Better deal maker, less whiny twitter.com/cyalm/status/1…

Pakistanis who are generally unaware of middle eastern conflicts have a very positive image of Iran because of its bold stance against Israel twitter.com/cybertosser/st…

Unlike previous tribal rebellions, the educated BLA terrorists believe in more 'scientific' methods like killing random Punjabis to pit the whole ethnic groups against each other

Unlike other cases against Imran, this is a proper corruption case so it will end up nowhere. Generals will use it coerce Imran and get their cut from Malik Riaz twitter.com/AsadAToor/stat…

Motor cyclist/Riskhaw drivers are paying Rs60/liter Petroleum levy on petrol they put in their vehicles

Super rich are paying Rs50/liter petroleum levy on High Octane (HoBC) for their gas guzzlers

What about equitable taxation ?

Can Big Data Reveal the Origins of Purdah?

Using ‘Google Arts & Culture’, I have analysed thousands of museum exhibits, to trace South Asia’s cultural evolution over five millennia.

What did I learn?

ggd.world/p/can-big-data… cc Alex Tabarrok 🛡️ Shruti Rajagopalan Arpit Gupta

In today's economy, only a person of strong moral principles would resign from a permanent Govt job. Even more admirable considering he belongs to the working class skating through life from paycheck to paycheck twitter.com/mugheesali81/s…

Peter Higgs, the physicist who helped illuminate the fundamental process that bestows mass on elementary particles, has died at the age of 94.

His namesake Higgs boson has left physicists with another mystery, one so seemingly intractable that it calls into question the…

Just give him an Oscar already twitter.com/DiscussingFilm…

Female senators better switch from gold to artificial jewelry twitter.com/AsadAToor/stat…

Civilian and military Govts systematically destroyed public education by allowing matric pass sifrashis to become teachers thenews.com.pk/print/1176976-…

China or Vietnam had authoritarian setups led by revolutionary communist parties. In Pakistan, army is a rent seeking, sclerotic institution which is the ultimate guarantor of the status quo twitter.com/YousufNazar/st…

Peshawar High Court rejects the Transparency International (TI) report, which had termed the judiciary the second most corrupt department in KP, and orders it to republish the report. lol thenews.com.pk/print/1177121-…

Saudis wont invest a large amount in Pakistan and seeking $5 bn is more like habitual beggary. Govt can probably save $5bn by stopping smuggled goods

ایک مولوی شدید غصے میں آکر اسرائیل کا جھنڈا کھا گیا ،

Its not that you were deceived, and found out about the salary after passing the CSS exam. People want to become babus so they can earn through illegal means. Otherwise, no intelligent person would aim for 1 lakh per month income twitter.com/Babar_Nama/sta…