The Friday Times – Naya Daur

• Raw Pakistani Talent At The Commonwealth Games August 11, 2022
  “The market undercuts community, atomises the family and affects mental health by turning more of life into a scorecard competition” ~ Value(s): Building a Better World for All by Mark Carney My Facebook feed shows Pakistanis expressing their pride and celebrating young men and women of the country who have showcased their talents at the […]
  Junaid Jahangir
• Could Escalation On Taiwan Bring About A Ukraine In The Pacific? August 10, 2022
  The recent visit to Taiwan by Nancy Pelosi—speaker of the US house of representatives—has angered China. China had made repeated warnings that the US official should not be making a visit to Taiwan which, if done, will be followed by consequences that would be gruesome and reactionary. There was quite an atmosphere of anxiety in […]
  Osama Ahmad
• Many K-P Areas Being Handed Over To Taliban: Dawar August 10, 2022
  MNA Mohsin Dawar said on Wednesday that many areas of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) were being handed over to the Taliban. Addressing the National Assembly, Dawar said the people of K-P will never accept the Taliban. When the Taliban wrested control of Kabul, some said Afghans stood emancipated, the MNA said. He said an attack has taken […]
  News Desk
• PTI Moves IHC Against ECP Prohibited Funding Verdict August 10, 2022
  The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Wednesday challenged the  recent Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)’s verdict on the prohibited funding case at the Islamabad High Court (IHC). PTI additional secretary general Omar Ayub filed the petition through former attorney general Anwar Mansoor Khan, lawyer Shah Khawar and Faisal Fareed. The petitioner requested the court to declare […]
  News Desk
• Damages & Apologies: How UK Courts Cracked ARY August 10, 2022
  ARY — the go to network for all things Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is in trouble. Broadcasts were earlier disrupted, legal action has been initiated against top management. Accused it stands of conspiring against the State amongst a spate of other allegations. While press freedom is a given in any healthy democracy it comes with a […]
  TFT Special
• Police Nab ‘Primary Suspect’ in US Muslim Killings August 10, 2022
  Police have claimed to have nabbed a prime suspect in the serial killings of four Muslim men in New Mexico. Authorities claimed on Tuesday to have arrested 51-year-old Muhammad Syed, a Muslim immigrant from Afghanistan, as prime suspect, according to Reuters. Police said in a statement that a search conducted at the suspect’s house had […]
  News Desk
• Iconic Serena Williams Moments In Tennis August 10, 2022
  Tennis icon Serena Williams just announced that she will be retiring from the sport right after the US Tennis Open later this month in a moving essay she wrote for Vogue magazine. In the essay she wrote for the American fashion magazine yesterday (Tuesday), she said that she never liked the word retirement, and instead, […]
  Lifestyle Desk
• China Or US: Can Pakistan Use Preventive Diplomacy To Its Advantage? August 10, 2022
  Since the end of the 20th century up till a few years back, states around globe exercised diplomacy and formulated their foreign policy in a unipolar world. The US enjoyed the status of being the sole super power in the world. The US acquired this status after the dissolution of the USSR on December 25, […]
  Mustafa Wynne
• Zawahiri’s Killing And After: Implications For Pakistan August 10, 2022
  The killing of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in the CIA-led drone strike in Kabul on July 31, 2022, could have dangerous implications for Pakistan. It could lead to terror attacks by the militant groups affiliated with al-Qaeda inside Pakistan. The details of drone strikes — was it launched from an aircraft carrier in the Persian […]
  Umer Farooq
• Controversy Queen Kangana Ranaut Down With Dengue August 10, 2022
  Controversy queen Kangana Ranaut is shooting for her film Emergency despite being down with dengue. An Instagram post from Kangana’s production house Manikarnika Films revealed that the actress is working  despite being unwell. “When you are down with dengue, alarmingly low white blood cell count and high fever and yet you land at work, it’s […]
  News Desk