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They have a tremendous bowling attack, but the batsmen will have to impactfully step up to the plate. Bilal Ahsan Dar From Asia Cup to the recent home series against England, Pakistan’s middle order drew widespread criticism from experts and fans alike. However, it is not just the middle order that is ailing Pakistan. A flawed strategy, batting order and the selection are the key components to Pakistan’s unreliable batting lineup. Strike Rate Stats may suggest that Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan are currently the best T20 openers in terms of consistency – runs scored, averages, partnerships and any other…

For now, AFU is trading territory for lives while RF is trading territory for time. Only winters will tell who is going to succeed.  Saurabh Kumar Shahi The recent tactical setbacks—not that recent given that the last one happened almost two weeks ago—that the Russian Armed Forces (RF) received in Kharkov and Kherson sectors in Ukraine have created much excitement in both the pro and anti-Russia crowd. The Western press that was starving of any good news from the fronts ran away with it to such an extent that in the ever-hopeful western capitals, it appeared as if the Ukrainians…

There is an important lesson to be learnt from what recently happened to truckloads of apples. Trucks carrying ripe and red apples were on their way to markets across India when they were stuck along Srinagar-Jammu highway. The mess couldn’t be managed for several days despite assurances from the highest echelons of power. By the time the crisis was resolved, the losses were huge. The fruit had rotten, leaving the orchardists distraught. This year, like the past several years, has been difficult for Kashmir’s horticulture industry. From natural causes like unseasonal snowfalls to spring heatwaves to man-made disasters like blockade…

Know the RBI guidelines that are in place to safeguard the borrowers. Sajjad Bazaz The deadly impact of the Covid-19 pandemic taught us some important lessons of the century by triggering radical changes not only in the way of our living, but also reshaping the economic processes on the whole. In the context of changing lives, it’s the economics of living where a series of radical transformation has been set in motion. The systems and procedures driving our economic processes have been highly impacted and most of these pre-Covid processes are fast becoming redundant. In other words, the virus has…

When he realised that it could be a matter of life and death, he ripped the plaster off and hobbled towards the garage.   Farooq Shah In the winter of 2019, a senior police officer’s wife who lived in a remote village in north Kashmir, was suffering from cancer and needed some quick medication. However, her physician was from another village. Without his advice, the patient’s life was hanging in a balance. The top cop was resourceful enough but there was a serious problem on hand. All the roads leading to the doctor’s home were completely buried under snow. No…

Shome Basu The outcome of the 20th Chinese Communist Party Congress that began this Sunday is expected to witness Xi Jinping emerge again as the most powerful man in China and become the General Secretary once again, thereby continuing his marathon run as the President of China. Let us not forget the timing when such a drastic change is taking place in Beijing. This is probably one of the biggest changes that China will be witnessing in terms of political powerplay since 1949 when CCP became the ruling dispensation there. And this is happening when the West is deeply engaged with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” mounted…

The movie is shallow and monotonous, and reduces most of the tumultuous events of the last few decades to diluted sequences. Jaspreet Kaur I had been a bit apprehensive about watching the Bollywood remake of one of the greats of the 90s – Forrest Gump. Eventually I did watch it on Netflix and I am so glad I gave it a miss in the theatres. Laal Singh Chaddha was excruciatingly painful to watch, both for its pace and Aamir Khan as Laal Singh. It not only lacks the magic of the original but also of Aamir Khan’s PK and Advait…

In this in-depth interview with Kashmir Newsline,  President Kashmiri Pandit Sangarsh Samiti (KPSS), Sanjay Tickoo, talks about everything from the 1990 exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits (KPs) to the killing of Puran Krishan Bhat who was gunned down on October 15 in South Kashmir’s Shopian district. How do you view this latest killing of a Kshmiri Pandit, Puran Bhat, in view of New Delhi’s claims of peace and normalcy in Kashmir? I think we need to go back to the late 80s. The political dispensation of that time had started a smear campaign against Kashmiri Pandits that we were agents…