Tag: Debate

Blame game continues in NA session yet again

--Mazari demands probe into ‘criminal negligence’ of past rulers in not joining FATF --Rafique says govt should sign the charter of democracy before the charter...

German court hears debate over commercial euthanasia

KARLSRUHE, GERMANY: Pro-euthanasia doctors and patients petitioned Germany’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday to overturn 2015 legislation that outlaws commercial assisted suicide. Like several other European nations,...

Sex workers’ union ignites debate over prostitution in Spain

  MADRID: A divisive debate over the legal status of prostitution has reignited in Spain after the country's staunchly feminist government was embarrassed to find...

Latest shooting revives US arms control debate

WASHINGTON: The shooting at a Texas high school has revived the perennial hot-button issue of arms control in the United States, and the ease...

‘Yanny’ or ‘Laurel’: Celebrities give their two cents on the audio...

Around the same time in 2015, there was a picture of the dress that took the internet by storm. The debate over whether the...

Nothing allocated in budget for controlling population, says PPP

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Wednesday continued debate on the Federal Budget 2018-19, with Pakistan Peoples Party's (PPP) Rukhsana Zubairi saying that nothing had been allocated...

Dastgir slams ‘internationalisation’ of Hajj debate

ISLAMABAD: Minister of Defense Khurram Dastgir Khan has slammed media reports calling for the “internationalisation” of the Muslim holy pilgrimage (the Hajj). In an interview...

Divided UN session to meet on Iran protests

GENEVA: The US successfully fought off a Russian-led attempt on Friday to block a UN security council discussion over the past week’s Iranian protests. But...

Trump assails Bill Clinton, vows to jail Hillary Clinton if he...

A defiant Donald Trump on Sunday attacked former President Bill Clinton for his treatment of women and vowed, if he won the White House,...

Clinton, Trump clash in fiery first debate

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump bickered and traded insults in a fiery US presidential debate Monday, as they aggressively pitched their case to tens...

Clinton, Trump neck and neck heading into first debate

The lengthy US presidential campaign is careening towards a 90-minute Monday showdown, with Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump squaring off in their...

PeeCee shuts down her American accent debate

Ever since the first trailer of Quantico landed all those months ago, we have not heard the end of jokes/memes/comments about her accent. She...

Pre-budget debate continues in Punjab Assembly

Continuing with pre-budget debate in Punjab Assembly session on Wednesday, the members called for revisiting the import policy for luxury items to cut import...

Djokovic says ‘men should get more’ as debate over equal prize...

World number one Novak Djokovic has indicated men's tennis should get more prize money than women because it has more spectators as a new...

Taliban debate merits of Islamic State’s caliphate announcement

Taliban spokesmen in both Pakistan and Afghanistan declined to comment on al-Baghdadi's claim to be the global leader of all Muslims The Afghan Taliban have...

Nisar terms debate on martyrdom ‘damaging’

  The debate over who is a martyr and who is not is extremely damaging for Pakistan, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar said on Monday. Speaking in...

Textbooks raise debate about ‘curriculum of hate’

In a public school located just outside the capital, a classroom of ninth-graders follows quietly along in their history textbooks as their teacher reads...