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Jihad and Terrorism Threat Montior (JTTM) Weekly: January 16-23, 2021 January 23, 2021 The following are some of this weeks reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, you must be a paying member of the JTTM; for membership information, send an email to [email protected] with "Membership" in the...

An accomplished collection of stories informed by a sense of community, its possibilities and failures There are good reasons to celebrate a successful new collection of short stories, perhaps more so in countries like ours, where the short fiction form remains vigorous. Until a few decades ago, in languages like Urdu, Hindi and Bangla, it was the short story that set the tone and had the largest readership. Also, nationally and internationally, it was the short story that, along with poetry, ...

That massive decline obviously happened because of the COVID-19 pandemic. RDU said the decline came after a record-setting 2019, where 14.2 million passengers flew out of the airport. In 2020, a mere 4.9 million passengers came through RDU. The last time RDU saw fewer than 5 million passengers in a year was 1987. Airport leaders said they hope continued distribution of COVID-19 vaccines will help bring an end to the pandemic and instill confidence in people who want to travel and fly again.

Story highlights The owners of the cafe later described it to be a normal, friendly banter with a team member A cafe in Islamabad, Pakistan has faced the wrath of the internet for cracking a joke on an employee which they thought was funny, but the internet disagreed. Owner of Cannolis cafe in Islamabad was recorded making fun of one of her employees for not being able to speak English fluently. The video of the owner mocking the employee went viral, but for all the wrong reasons. When netizens...

Under The Emerging Turkey-Pakistan Strategic Alliance, Pakistan May Provide Turkey With Nuclear Weapons Capabilities January 19, 2021 | By Tufail Ahmad Introduction This paper examines increasing concerns over the Turkish-Pakistani strategic partnership in recent years, especially regarding the likelihood that rogue elements in the Pakistani military could supply nuclear technology to Turkey. Such concerns appeared real in view of the Turkish-Pakistani military cooperation against Armenia in t...

English By Ayesha Tanzeem Share on Facebook Print this page ISLAMABAD - Britain’s BBC’s Urdu Service Friday ended its contract for its half-hour, five-day-a-week television news show on Pakistan’s AAJ News channel, due to what the BBC said was continued interference in its programs.  “We have experienced interference in our News bulletins since October 2020 and gave AAJ TV ample time to return the program to air,” said a statement ...

Shamsur Rahman Faruqi: The Ustad Who Could Catch the Bustle in A Flower’s Scent The acclaimed Urdu critic, poet and prose master changed the face of Urdu but also what it meant to engage with the literary in all its shapes, glorious or unsightly. Life after him means living with a slew of unfinished conversations, writes Geeta Patel.  Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (September 30, 1935 – December 25, 2020) Photo: Aashima The language of flowers (in homage to Ghalib and Faruqi) You happen upo...

January 10, 2021 Nasir Abbas Nayyar’s latest book is a study in the discourse on colonialism as a plausible way to interpret the psychological structures of society Nearly a decade ago I started cogitating the discourse on colonialism as a plausible way of interpreting the psychological structures of our society. I could not find any Pakistani author writing about this discourse. Around that time, I came across Maba’d Nau Abadiat, Urdu kay Tanzur MeiN, a book by Dr Nasir Abbas Nayyar. Subs...

The Taliban today undoubtedly has a stronger hold over how the US militarily plans to withdraw from the conflict in Afghanistan. This raises questions about the continuing challenges to security in South Asia—in particular, the influence of IS Khorasan (IS-K), the group’s Afghanistan avatar, and its rise both as an ISIS-aligned entity and a big-tent brand for various jihadist groups in the country. As the ‘Khorasan’ project of ISIS gets more attention, and the US and the Taliban stand a...

Routes: COVID testing picks up steam + JetBlue at SFO, animals on Alaska, 737 Max, more A weekly roundup of airline and airport route and service news. Jim Glab FacebookTwitterEmail JetBlue is set to start some new routes from San Francisco.Dreamstime / TNS In route news this week, the U.S. might soon require all arriving travelers to get a negative COVID test result – something Canada and Turkey are doing as well; a new website helps travelers locate COVID testing facilities worldwide; JetBl...