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Young Pakistani Shepherd brings the ancient language to the global platform Coke Studio

Twenty-year-old Nizamuddin Torwali, a shepherd from a remote village in northwestern Pakistan Swat, has become an unlikely star of Pakistan’s biggest TV music show, Coke Studio. Sings in the language, with no formal musical training. An Indo-Aryan dialect with no written tradition before 2007. The song has been viewed nearly 7 million times on YouTube…

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Pakistan is exploring hydro, and nuclear power projects to deal with economic pressures

This comes amid reports that the government of Pakistan has “over the past decade bought 26 Independent Power Producers (IPPs) using gas, regasified liquefied natural gas (RLNG), and residual furnace oil (RFO) to produce around 1 trillion in capacity payments. Media reports since 2015 said on Saturday that Pakistan is reviewing existing and upcoming power…

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Fiverr accounts of some Pakistani freelancers are ‘unavailable’ due to internet outages

Freelancing platform Fiverr has made several accounts “unavailable” in Pakistan due to possible “internet bottlenecks”, activists using the site have said, while rights activists have lamented the issue. Internet users speculated that these disruptions were the result of the government installing firewalls to monitor and track users. However, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) denied that…

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Iran arrests dozens of people suspected of killing Hamas leader

Iran has launched a wide-ranging investigation into Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s murder, a stark sign of how damaging and shocking the security failure was. Iran has arrested more than two dozen people, including military officials, senior intelligence officers,  and staff members, at a military-run guesthouse in Tehran in a massive and humiliating security breach. In…

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