IT IS POSSIBLE THAT AMERICANS WERE THEMSELVES GUILTY OF OVER-DEMANDING AND OVER-EXPECTING

GLOBAL AGE READERS RESPOND TO LATEST DEVELOPMENTS ON THE GOVERNMENT’S RESCUE TALKS WITH THE IMF AS THE RUPEE FALLS AS MUCH AS FIVE PERCENT

WASHINGTON COULD CHOOSE ADDITIONAL PUNITIVE ACTIONS AGAINST ISLAMABAD THOUGH MR. TRUMP’S DECEMBER LETTER SEEKING THE PRIME MINISTER’S ASSISTANCE IN THE FALTERING AFGHAN PEACE TALKS HAS PROVED PAKISTAN’S GEOSTRATEGIC IMPORTANCE, GLOBAL AGE THINK-TANK THINKS AHEAD TO COMING CHANGES

WANT WATER? SORRY! WE’RE GOING TO RUN DRY BY 2025, COURTESY OF WAPDA

IT IS NOW NINE YEARS SINCE CHINESE OVERTOOK AMERICANS AS AFRICANS’ LARGEST TRADING PARTNERS. IS THE CONTINENT CORRECT TO BE CHEERFUL - AT LEAST ABOUT CHEAP CHINESE PRODUCTS?

MORE THAN A SCORE OF MPS HAVE PUT THEIR NAMES OUT THERE PUBLICLY CALLING ON PRIME MINISTER THERESA MARY MAY TO GO AND SCREAMING PROTESTS AT HER BREXIT DEAL. THEY MIGHT NOT GET THEIR CONFIDENCE VOTE. EVEN IF THEY DO, THEY MIGHT NOT GET SUFFICIENT SUPPORT TO GET RID OF HER

TOP STORY: BALOCHISTAN’S BIGGEST PROBLEM IS POVERTY

‘IT IS A DREAM THAT THE HINDUS AND MUSLIMS CAN EVER EVOLVE A COMMON NATIONALITY,’ THE QUAID SAID. ‘HINDUS AND MUSLIMS BELONG TO TWO DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHIES, SOCIAL CUSTOMS AND LITERARY TRADITIONS. THEY NEITHER INTERMARRY NOR EAT TOGETHER, AND INDEED THEY BELONG TO TWO DIFFERENT CIVILISATIONS WHICH ARE BASED MAINLY ON CONFLICTING IDEAS AND CONCEPTIONS’

THE OVAL OFFICE SAYS IT WILL RESTART TALKS WITH PYONGYANG NEXT YEAR. KIM JONG-UN KNOWS HOW TO MAKE MR. TRUMP FEEL GOOD, BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN HE PLANS TO DENUCLEARISE, LEAVING HIS AIDES WRANGLING OVER WHAT TO DO NEXT WITH THE PENINSULA’S ‘NUKE MAN’

IT IS PROBABLY THE SHENZHOU-14 MISSION, TENTATIVELY PLANNED FOR 2022, WHICH PAKISTAN IS TARGETING FOR ITS GIANT STEP OF PUTTING A MAN IN SPACE

EDUCATION VEXATION

THE KIPS BUREAU’S CULTURE VULTURISTS TALK ABOUT WRITING TIPS IN THIS MONTH’S SPECIAL EDITION

THE KIPS BUREAU’S POLITICAL SCIENTISTS AND THEIR COUNTERPARTS IN AMERICA AND EUROPE SCRUTINISE FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON’S WARNING IN HIS 20-MINUTE SPEECH AGAINST THE RISING NATIONALISM DURING NOVEMBER 12’S CEREMONY IN PARIS MARKING THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR ARMISTICE AND PRESENT A DOSSIER ON ‘NATIONALISM’ IN THIS SPECIAL EDITION

THE SOCIOLOGY SOCIETY AT THE KIPS BUREAU ADDS MORE SPICES TO ITS JANUARY SPECIAL EDITION OF THE 19-CENTURY GERMAN PHILOSOPHERS KARL MARX AND FRIEDRICH ENGELS AND FINALLY LEAVES ITS READERS WITH A SHORT NOTE ON THE FORMER’S ‘LABOUR THEORY OF VALUE’

THE KIPS BUREAU DELVES DEEP INTO THE DAYS OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION IN ITS JANUARY SPECIAL EDITION OF THE AMERICAN HISTORY

THE KIPS BUREAU REPORTERS WRITE ABOUT THE EXAMS ENTANGLEMENT AND THE REASONS FOR POOR RESULTS IN 2016 IN THEIR JANUARY CSS EDITION

HISTORIANS AT THE KIPS BUREAU TALK ABOUT THE PARTITION DAYS IN THIS MONTH’S SPECIAL EDITION

SWEDEN IS ONE OF THE ADVANCED WORLD ECONOMIES RIDING THROUGH TOUGH TIMES WHERE PAKISTAN NOW FINDS ITSELF IN HAS INVESTED OVER $100 MILLION IN PAKISTAN TO HELP IT ACHIEVE SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH

THE KIPS BUREAU’S GRAMMAR-CRAMMERIANS GET A CHANCE TO OFFER SOME SPICY WRITING STUFF

Azka Zafar Rana, a CSS candidate at the KIPS Campus, passed her exam in 2015. She did her electronics engineering from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in Islamabad.

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