Tabahi ka nuskha hai( it’s a recipe for disaster); tabdeeli ka tohfa( gift from a party that promised ‘change’); picture abhee baqi hai meray dost( more is yet to come, my friend); mar jaen tau achha hai( it’s better to die).... These are just a few responses from the members of a WhatsApp group as people vented their helplessness shortly after someone posted in that space the finance ministry’s order increasing the oil prices on Saturday morning.... That may be stretching things a bit too far

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Wheat production in Sindh missed its target by 100, 000 tonnes.... It announced it would approach the federal government to import wheat.... The provincial agriculture department’s figures showed this year’s production at 3.9m tones against a target of 4m ton, but acreage has increased....

Ms Dorries said: “ I have dyslexia, which means that when I speak I often run my words together and say things that sound like the words I’m trying to say.“ Dyslexia affects people differently.... For me, it affects my speech more than my writing, which is why I find solace in writing.“ I’m OK with that.... And she said her department is also “ responsible for everything to do with sport, making sure you’ve got football pitches and that you have tennis pitches in your communities where you can

Joe Biden looks all but certain to be the Democratic nominee for president again in 2024, having picked up huge support in New Hampshire even without appearing on Granite State ballot papers and storming the subsequent primaries in South Carolina and Nevada as his rather half-hearted challengers fell away. The 81-year-old is determined to secure a second term in the White House and insists he is confident he can beat the likely Republican nominee Donald Trump once again.... Mr Biden insists he

FRANKFURT/ BERLIN( Reuters)-For once, proverbially efficient Germany has dropped the ball. Seemingly endless queues all over the country for coronavirus booster shots and even for first vaccines are evidence that it has been caught out by a fourth wave of COVID-19, having led the world in its initial response to the pandemic early last year. Then, swift reporting and measures to limit contagion, helped by inspired political leadership, meant Germany suffered far fewer transmissions and deaths th

But Sen Hawley’s comments were perhaps the most quizzical, and have led to the internet erupting in a widespread panning of what seemed to be his grave misunderstanding of human anatomy.... Mr Hawley responded to the question by asking another question: “ Yeah.... ” When pressed further by the reporter about whether or not a woman would still be defined as such if she, for instance, lost her reproductive organs to cancer, he again answered with a question: “ I mean, a woman has a vagina, right

aides see as the Russian President's strategy of going off on tangents meant to muddle and undermine

.... Which is beyond funny, when you think about it for half a second. Today there is a huge muddle of

government's slow or muddled response to warnings about the situation in Afghanistan meant some local staff