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Black Lives Matter Black Lives Matter activist carrying a poster during protest Rashid Hussain Black Lives Matter is a decentralized political and social movement promoting non-violent civil disobedience against incidents of police brutality and racial injustice in the United States of America and some parts of Europe. In February 2012, when a Hispanic white man George Zimmerman killed an African –American teenager Trayvon Martin in the American state of Florida; George said he committed the murder in self-defense under Florida’s law of “Stand your ground“. He was charged with a second-degree murder case but the Jury, later in July 2013, acquitted him. A large number of protesters gathered around the court, started chanting slogans “no justice no peace”, and the Black Lives Matters movement kicked off right away. The movement was nationally recognized following another extra-judicial killing of African-American individual Michael Brown, he was shot by Ferguson Police officer Darren Wil...

  New World Order     Laila Ahsan T he powerful countries of the world have always been desirous to rule over the world through various means. After World War-II, the United States of America and Russia appeared to be the two superpowers of the world and they played a pivotal role in the world's economy and political matters. But in 1991, the great Soviet Union (USSR) had broken into pieces, Russia's splendid kingdom had partitioned in 12 states; these twelve new states of Russia had emerged on the map of the world. After the breakup of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), being a sole superpower of that time, the United States of America (USA) started to increase its influence on those newly emerged states; it also initiated to spread the impact in other countries as well. World Bank has warned that due to COVID-19 pandemic, the global economy will shrink by 5.2% and it would be the worst economic recession since the World War-II.     Wa...

Education System in Pakistan Laila Ahsan        Problems in the Pakistani education system are manifold, they start from dysfunctional schools at primary level to lack of basic facilities in almost all levels of government schools and thousands of non-proficient and ghost teachers are further damaging the system. Nowadays, the pattern of our education system is not up to the global education standards, it lags behind and mainly focuses on only the improvement of examinations. We are ignoring the basic spirit of education. The main target of education should be enabling students to gain knowledge and learn fundamental skills instead of focusing on cramming and getting good results in the examinations. The education system must be learning-based, knowledge-oriented, it should train the students' minds and make them intellectuals. watch the video   Begginers Guide to CSS Exams  Unfortunately in our education system, students are only taught to get maximum mark...

Diamir Bhasha Dam Rashid Hussain On 15 July 2020, Pakistan’s 3rd biggest dam Diamir Bhasha Dam was inaugurated by Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan. The dam is designed to generate 4500 Megawatt electricity and it will have the capacity to store 8 million Acre Feet of water, it is said to be the highest dam of the country with a height of 272 meters. The dam will create about 16000 jobs for local persons of the area, it will also contribute towards boosting of country’s Tourism Industry as well. It is expected that the dam construction will be completed by the end of the year 2028. The site of Pakistan’s third biggest dam Diamir Bhasha is located at Chilas city of district Diamir, Gilgit Baltistan. The plan to build this dam was formulated in the 1980s, its foundation stone was laid in 2008 but now its construction work has kicked off. In the past tenures of different governments, feasibility reports of the dam were prepared, but the work on the project could never be started owing...

UAE-Israel Peace Deal Rashid Hussain   On last Thursday, peace deal between UAE and Israel was announced in Washington DC by US president Donald Trump. For some, it may be a surprise but the fact is that efforts for normalization of ties between two countries were being taken for some years. They were already having good working relations in business, technology, and intelligence sharing. UAE becomes the 3 rd  Arab country after Egypt and Jordan to sign such agreement. On August 13, 2020, US president Donald Trump formally announced UAE-Israel Peace Agreement at the White House USA. Israel and US had issued a joint statement that according to the agreement, Israel and the UAE will share embassies and begin a new era of cooperation in the fields of education, healthcare, trade, security and tourism. On other hand, UAE says it does not intend to open embassy in Jerusalem until there is a settlement between Palestine and Israel. The three partakers of this deal –UAE, Israel ...

CSS Guide for Beginners Sumera Naz                                                                                                                Dated: 4, August 2020 This guide exclusively covers all the crucial aspects of CSS exams and is a paragon for the beginners. In this article, you will read about the introduction of Central Superior Service along with the results of 2019, its transparency, the quota system, the care service segment, and the privileges of CSS officers.    Introduction : Pakistan civil service has a decorous procedure making it one of the very competitive examination systems, it is conducted by the country’s largest recruiting agency Federal public service commission every year...