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Pakistan starts production of advanced JF-17 Thunder Block III aircraft
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 PAC develops capacity to produce advance 4.5 generation JF-17B Thunder Block-III jets
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Aircraft to be equipped with long-range superior radar system and advanced precise firing weapon
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PAC Kamra hands over 14 dual seater JF-17B Thunder Block-II fighter jets to PAF
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Indian Air Force’s Rafale jets will no longer be as lethal as it hoped them to be as
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the Pakistan Air Force announced the serial production of the 4.5-generation aircraft of the most advanced variant of JF-17 Thunder Block III.
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The start of production was announced at a ceremony at the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC), Kamra where the PAF was also handed over the 14 state-of-the-art indigenously developed dual seater JF-17B Thunder Block-II fighter jets.
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Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan called the the new jets a “significant milestone” in the history of the country.

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The air chief said that the JF-17 Thunder had been proven as a battle-tested aircraft during the Operation Swift Retort against IAF’s intrusion into Pakistan’s territorial sovereignty on February 27, 2019.
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Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan called the the new jets a “significant milestone” in the history of the country.

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The air chief said that the JF-17 Thunder had been proven as a battle-tested aircraft during the Operation Swift Retort against IAF’s intrusion into Pakistan’s territorial sovereignty on February 27, 2019.
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The ceremony also marked the announcement of serial production of PAF’s most advanced 4.5 generation JF-17 Thunder Block III jets.

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The air chief commended PAC for the in-time completion of the project by the Aircraft Manufacturing Factory (AMF) team involved
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in the development of the advance generation of the dual seater JF-17B Thunder and Block-III jets version.

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The year of 2020 has been very challenging due to the COVID-19 pandemic as it disturbed life all over the world.
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It also inflicted serious impacts on the PAC project of JF-17B Thunder Block-III as the entire complex has remained under lockdown,” said Air Chief Marshal Mujahid.
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The PAF chief lauded PAC Kamra for upholding its traditions despite the most challenging times of the pandemic.
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I would like to commend the entire team and PAC leadership including chairman PAC and managing director AMF for their concerted efforts to meet the project deadlines,” said Air Chief Marshal Mujahid.
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Khatm-e-Nubuwwat means that Hazrat Muhammad (P.B.U.H) is the Last of the Prophets.
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The process and routine of appointing Prophets and Messengers by Almighty Allah has been terminated, finished, ended, stopped, and sealed.
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None will be appointed as prophet after Hazrat Muhammad (P.B.U.H).
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His prophet hood will continue until the dooms day and even afterwards, only that person came claim to be a Muslims who has belief in Khatm-e-Nubuwwat and confesses
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“None is worth of worship except Allah; Muhammad (P.B.U.H) is apostle of Allah”
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A US delegation led by General Joseph L Votel, Commander US Centcom, called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa.
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The US Commander appreciated Pakistan Army’s efforts for regional peace and stability.
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A press release issued here by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that the COAS reiterated that peace in Afghanistan is vital for regional peace.
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Gen Bajwa said that Pakistan, despite constraints, had contributed to all efforts for regional peace and would continue to do so, it said.
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It added that geo-strategic environment, regional security and Afghanistan peace and reconciliation process were discussed inthe meeting.
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Pakistan on Wednesday emphasised peaceful co-existence in the region as it conducted another test of surface-to-surface ballistic missile Shaheen-III,
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which is also the longest-range missile to have been developed in the country.
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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Gen Nadeem Raza, who witnessed the test, said: “Pakistan desires peaceful co-existence in the region and its strategic capability is to deter any aggression against the sovereignty of Pakistan.”
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Shaheen-III is a surface-to-surface ballistic missile with a range of 2,750 kilometres,
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which makes it capable of reaching the farthest point in India’s northeast and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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In celebration of the memory of those who laid their lives so that we may live, this special day is a tribute to the indomitable will,
stoic courage and an overwhelming love of the nation
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that resonates in their heart which leads to a secure and peaceful Pakistan for us to dwell in. Deriving their military virtue from the true spirit of an Islamic ideology,
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the Pakistan armed forces have always sacrificed their best of men in keeping intact the sovereignty of the Motherland as its soil contains as an unforgettable

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and primary constituent the blood of its martyrs who have fearlessly confronted the enemy and crushed their nefarious designs while guarding their land with their most precious possessions, their lives.

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History has seen how the soldiers of the Pakistan army have risen to their towering heights to defend their borders,
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Pakistan’s commitment with the UN for promoting international peace and prosperity stems from the vision of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
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Pakistan’s role in peacekeeping efforts began in 1960 when it deployed its first contingent in the UN operations in Congo.
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Over the past 55 years, the country has been the most significant and consistent contributor to the UN peacekeeping around the world.
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Pakistani peacekeepers have left no stone unturned in the noble cause of helping humanity,
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building peace and bringing stability across the regions under the banner of United Nations, said an Inter Services Public Relations
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And Obama facilitated the mullahs’

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Iran has sent arms & dispatched paramilitary operatives to help Maduro remain in power.

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In analysing the Afghan political spectrum something becomes obvious: Kabul's base is far more diverse than the Taliban's. For simplicity's sake, I'll count stronger opposition toward the Taliban than Kabul as 'pro Kabul'.

Let's assess these generally. Exceptions apply.

A diverse base isn't necessarily, however, a good thing. Appealing to everyone ensures you appeal to no one, or that your support base is so fractured that it actually becomes a liability. Think of Clinton losing the Democrat majority in Congress being a blessing in disguise.

Some pro-Kabul groupings:

1) ethnonationalists of all ethnicities. Whilst the non-Pashtuns amongst them aren't pro-Ghani, they're pro-Kabul as an institution; they see it as far more representative and amenable to their interests than the Taliban.

Some Pashtun nationalists do support the Taliban (majority Pashtun) but these are a minority. The biggest blemishes on the Taliban's Pashtun credentials:

a) The Taliban/Pakistan relationship
b) their overt Islam, which many Pashtun nationalists are hostile toward.

2) The enlightened 'roshan-fikr' demographic

Liberals/seculars. Not much intro needed: progress, freedom, spectacular gains of the last 19 years, women's rights et cetera. You generally notice quite an anti-Islam, wholesale adoption of War on Terror rhetoric in their rationale.
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102 Korean men, women, and children arrived in Honolulu aboard the SS Gaelic to work in Hawaii’s sugar plantations. By 1905, Koreans comprised 11% of Hawaii’s plantation workforce—around 7000 people.


This first wave of Korean immigrants arrived amid sharpening imperialist rivalry in the Pacific. Korea had slowly been losing its independence for decades, and by 1903 was just two years away from becoming a protectorate of Japan.

At the same time, the US was consolidating its position in the Pacific, annexing Hawaii, Guam, and the Philippines in 1898, and partitioning Samoa in 1899.

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Since early 2019, Turkey has arrested hundreds of Uighurs and sent them to deportation centers. And Erdogan’s remarks have turned diplomatically bland, just like any Uighur-related coverage in newspapers controlled by Erdogan and his supporters.
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A few thoughts on this sad development 👇👇

20 academics criticizing an paper is fine; good science, really

10000+ hate mail for studying schools in Sweden is insane

Anonymous docs/ prof (hiding in faceless accts) on twitter smearing researchers is insane
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In April 2020, @jflier and I saw this coming

We saw increasingly heated and personal attacks against scientists merely for having a range of views on COVID19 (PS there is no playbook/ right ans)

Tying science to naked politics was also bad idea, we

Yet, repeatedly that is what happened. Twitter 'experts' displayed an absolute intolerance to other views

Folks who disagreed weren't just wrong, they were malicious actors spreading "disinformation"

Really? Someone worked for 25 years as faculty to suddenly spread lies?

Disinformation has been so misused that it has lost meaning.

I recently saw an ID doc & lab researcher in the UK be accused of spreading "disinformation"

hahah, get outta here, you are trying to say "i disagree" but your keyboard is broken

Personal attacks have become so bad that I have seen a lab researcher accuse a doctor of wanting to engage in inappropriate relationships with patients due to diverging views on vaccine messaging

Seriously? It was a low point even for twitter
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