Irrigation ministers of both provinces say move against provincial autonomy

MOU between Gwadar, Turkmenbashi ports to be inked soon

Today is the youngest you’ll ever be!

Zindagi's Shailja Kejriwal says she has numbers to prove what people are watching

The Nobel laureate emphasised the importance of supporting Pakistani films and dramas to encourage the industry.

Food street in the heart of Multan is famous for traditional dishes

Around 40 mobile chatbot robots offering support in 25 different languages are being prepared for the IDEAS exhibition

'Indian' dish Keema came at six with Korma and Dal claiming spots 22 and 50 respectively on TasteAtlas list

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A girl receives polio vaccine drops, during an anti-polio campaign, in a low-income neighborhood in Karachi on July 20, 2020. — Reuters First case in Chagai district confirmed. Lab detects Poliovirus Type-1 .Genetic sequencing of samples underway.

Pakistan...

Breast cancer awareness: A contrast of its history in PakistanAn ode to breast cancer awareness:

As the month of October comes to an end with its sea of pink ribbons, it has reminded us once again of a critical issue that deserves more than just symbolic gestures: breast cancer awareness....

A female polio health worker administers polio drops to a child during the anti-polio vaccination campaign aimed at eradicating polio in the provincial capital. — AFPThis is second polio case reported from Qila Saifullah in 2024.Pakistan one of only two polio endemic countries in...

"Milkar" volunteers are distributing masks in this undated image. — MilKar.com/website

LAHORE: Milkar Pakistan has launched the "Pakistan Wear Mask" campaign to deal with the increasing air pollution and smog across the country.

The aim of this campaign is to highlight the...

PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari addressing an event at the CM House in Karachi on October 14, 2024. — Facebook/@Bilawalhouse

Mocking the governments of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the provinces grappling with the smog crisis, Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal...

Explosive device was planted on the rear of the tanker; one person injured.

In this recent Ask the Experts question, learn the difference between a standard and a specification. For more answers, visit the Ask the Experts page.

Maleeha Lodhi discusses the future of IoK at the UNSC, Pakistan's role at the UN and the personal attacks against...

Russian, Chinese, and Pakistani interests are all directly served through N-CPEC+

This undated photo shows the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission's rover during a test. — APP/File

In a major development, the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission has announced its collaboration on a groundbreaking lunar...

A 2020 report had recommended investigations into 19 soldiers for the killing of 39 Afghan civilians and prisoners.

From New York to Pennsylvania, solemn ceremonies mark the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks

A religion that grants women more freedom and rights than most has been wrongly used to colonise them for far too long

In a country where millions go to bed hungry every night, 40% of the total food produced is being wasted annually.

Salman triumphed at the World Youth Scrabble Championship with a record of 20–4 and a spread of +1793

A 10-member team will compete in the 45th Chess Olympiad in Budapest, Hungary, from September 10 to 23.

The Green Shirts meet arch-rivals India on Saturday

Green Shirts set to face traditional rivals, India, in final pool match on Saturday

The Green Shirts handed 5-1 defeat in the Asian Champions Trophy

The 14-year-old boy, a resident of Skardu, was held at an isolation centre where he tested positive for COVID-19

Washington had sanctioned China-based companies in October 2023 for supplying missile-applicable items to Pakistan

Musadik Masood Malik says rate of petroleum levy to also decrease with increase in tax-to-GDP ratio

Computerised weighing scales have been installed

NA speaker chairs parliamentary committee meeting to discuss issues facing province

This would be the first visit by a Malaysian prime minister to Pakistan in five years

Personal: I ran headfirst into a bit of a classic burnout two years ago. I’m still recovering from it. I’ve been trying to maintain a presence and not make this condition show too much, but I need to scale down the rest of my presence too for a while in order to reset and recharge.

I’ve been starting and re-starting writing this post way too many times now. I’ve decided to just post it as a stream of consciousness, readable or not as it may be, rather than my usual bar of having some sort of clear red thread with step-by-step logical coherence.

Two years ago, while moving from Stockholm to Berlin, I hit the infamous brick wall. I became incapable of most work that required any form of vehicular travel — I was literally limited to walking distance. Yes, it felt as ridiculous as it sounds, but it was just a matter of accepting the lay of the land and working with it. At the time, I was able to maintain some illusion of normality while starting to wind down and recover behind the scenes, thanks to being able to work remotely. I’ve since stopped working altogether — or so I thought, at least — and focusing on recharging.

When you drive a solar-powered rover too aggressively in Kerbal Space Program and the sun goes down, the batteries deplete quickly. You can’t start driving the rover again when the sun goes up from its state of depleted batteries, not even at its rated speed; you have to wait until the batteries have recharged, even if the circumstances (i.e. shining sun) should otherwise make you able to operate nominally. This is a little bit the state I’m in: I should nominally be fine, with most of the everyday load reduced significantly, but my batteries are still not recharging at the rate I had expected them to. (Yes, I’m impatient, which is admittedly part of the problem in the first place.)

So to all people who have written to me over this past time that I haven’t responded to: Please accept my apologies. It’s not out of malice or disinterest I haven’t responded, I’m simply getting done in a month what I used to get done in a day, and even that is a marked improvement. The “need to respond” queue is silly long by now, and includes conference invites and whatnot, that I would normally have responded to within minutes. It includes pings from near friends, that I had hoped to spend a lot more time with here in Berlin, as well as distant friends.

A close friend of mine pointed at a recent study about stress, a study looking at burnout symptoms in places with very good work-to-life balance, and the study concluded that the body doesn’t make a difference between obligations for work or obligations that are felt outside of work for any other reason than money. And she’s right: I’ve been feeling a pressure to shoot video, to code open-source projects, to participate in the community. I need to, bluntly speaking, drop all of these expectations for the foreseeable future. “Go off-grid” is a little too harsh, but I’ll need to turn off the expectation heartbeat on literally everything. I’ll do random things from time to time when I have the energy and desire for it, which unfortunately won’t be most of the time.

These recoveries basically take whatever damn time they please. I could have recharged batteries in six months, in a year, in ten years. I have honestly no idea and therefore I’m not setting any expectations, in either direction.

I’d like to say “I’ll be back”, but I don’t think the person on the other side of this recovery is going to be the same person I am today. I am sure I will still want to change the world for the better, somehow. I just can’t tell today how I’ll be wanting to change the world tomorrow. So even though I’ll very likely be back doing something, it’ll very likely not be the exact same things I’ve done up until this point.

CIA, FE og DSB har stoppet invasion af Ukraine ved at donere IC4-tog og DSB-personale til Rusland.

Indlægget Donerede IC4-tog standser russisk invasion (fra fremtidsarkivet, marts 2024) blev først udgivet på RokokoPosten.

As the weather turns cooler here for those of us in the northern hemisphere, it's nice to look at sets to remind us of warmer settings.

After spending the time at camp, the Friends head to the beach. In addition to the jetskis from 42623, the Friends have some land-based beach activities, with 42625 Beach Smoothie Stand. It feels to me that there have been several smoothie stands in Heartlake City, but according to the database, this is just the second one (the first being a polybag).

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