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I cant say what Im thinking right now. It wouldnt be polite, or professional. Im just as disgusted as everyone else about the state of our "spring". Spring has lost its bounce, but there are some signs of a full-blown temperature recovery the last 7-10 days of April. Its time for our weather pattern to mellow a bit...

Ive said it a bazillion times and Ill whisper it again: Minnesotans earn their springs. Additional slush is in the forecast, but I dont think this will be as draconian as April, 2018, when 26.1" of snow delighted residents of the Twin Cities. Prince got it right: sometimes it snows in April. Other times it snows a LOT.

Jim W. Dean - The attack on American pocketbooks from the Afghanistan debacle is still not over due to Biden's project of $5 billion needed to resettle refugees here.

By Sajjad Shaukat Pak VT China’s National Day is celebrated on October 1st every year to commemorate the founding of the People’s Republic of China on October 1, 1949. On this very day, lots of large-scaled activities are held nationwide. The 7-day holiday from October 1st to 7th is called ‘Golden Week’. The military parade […]

…by Sajjad Shaukat Pak VT ‘Operation Blue Star’ was an Indian military operation which occurred between 3–8 June 1984, ordered by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to control over the Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) complex, the holiest shrine of the Sikhs in Amritsar, Punjab, and to arrest Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his armed followers from the complex buildings. Bhindranwale had earlier taken residence in Harmandir Sahib and made it his headquarters in April 1980. Jarnail Sing...

By Sajjad Shaukat Pak VT Repeating scenario of the war of 2014 in its worst form, since May10, this year,  Israeli airstrikes and ground shelling have martyred more than 200 Palestinians, including 50 children and 60 women, while injuring more than 1500  innocent civilians in Gaza in particular and the West Bank in general. Entire families in Gaza enclave are sleeping on one bed at night, so that if they are struck by the Israeli air raids, they all die. Unmatched with Israeli heavy and moder...

By Sajjad Shaukat Although Pakistan’s provinces of Balochistan and Gilgit-Baltistan including city of Karachi have been facing various forms of subversive attacks, yet wave of terrorism has intensified in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa which has perennially been targeted by the Taliban militants on regular basis. Besides other terror acts, militants’ attack on Peshawar Air Port on December 15, this year, and a car bomb which killed 17 people in the Jamrud bazaar in Khyber Agency on December 18, the ass...

By Sajjad Shaukat Recently, propaganda intensified that the militant outfit Daish or ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) has its presence in Pakistan. Besides some newspapers and media anchors of some TV channels also misperceived that ISIS has penetrated into Pakistan. In fact, they made their observation on the basis of media announcements by the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leaders and Indian media. Although ISIS does not exist in Pakistan, yet Pakistan government, law-enforcin...

By Sajjad Shaukat Pak VT Although Coronavirus has affected about 150 million people in the world, yet in the last 11 days, India has been recording almost 340,000 to 400,000 cases and about 5,500 deaths, breaking world record each day. India’s count shows a blast in Covid infections. Transporters of many countries, carrying oxygen cylinders, other hospital equipments have begun reaching India. China has also offered New Delhi related-equipments to fight Covid-19. Despite foreign aid, this nov...

By Sajjad Shaukat PAK VT In a major development to deescalate tensions, the Director Generals of Military Operations (DGMOs) of Pakistan and India have agreed to strictly observe the 2003 ceasefire agreement at the Line of Control (LoC) and other sectors, including Working Boundary from the midnight of February 24 and 25, this year. In this regard, Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Babar Iftikhar stated on February 25 that the mechanism of military contacts b...