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Pakistani PM’s party wins majority in local government polls

Pakistan’s ruling party has won a majority of seats in local elections, according to unofficial results released on Sunday, dashing opposition hopes of making gains in Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s Punjab power base.

Millions of Pakistanis voted on Saturday in local government polls seen as a referendum on Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) party midway through its term heading a…

Advances in understanding and managing bullous pemphigoid

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This article is included in the F1000 Faculty Reviews channel. Abstract

Bullous pemphigoid (BP) is the commonest subtype of autoimmune blistering disease in most countries of the world. It occurs most frequently in elderly patients and is characterised clinically by large, tense…

Validating the use of Medicare Australia billing data to examine trends in skin cancer

Eshini Perera1,2,5, Neiraja Gnaneswaran3, Marlon Perera4, Rodney Sinclair2,5 Author affiliations Grant information: The author(s) declared that no grants were involved in supporting this work. Abstract

Background:  Epidemiological data surrounding non-melanomatous skin cancer (NMSC) is highly variable, in part due to the lack of government cancer registries. Several studies employ the…

Case Report: Traumatic anterior cerebral artery aneurysm in a 4-year old child

Sunil Munakomi, Karuna Tamrakar, Pramod Chaudhary, Binod Bhattarai, Iype Cherian Author affiliations Grant information: The author(s) declared that no grants were involved in supporting this work. Abstract

Traumatic intracranial aneurysm in the proximal part of the anterior cerebral artery in the pediatric population has not been documented so far. Here we report the case of a 4…

A new Critical Care

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This article is included in the Critical care channel. Abstract

A new channel for Critical Care offers clinicians and medical researchers a platform for publishing new research without the barriers and delays they often encounter in traditional journals. The channel welcomes research and…

Fashion of Winter seasons in new treands 2016

In the immortal words of Ned Stark: “winter is coming.” And with that, comes the making of your cold-weather wardrobe.

For many men, nervously navigating this sartorial minefield is a fear far greater than any army of white walkers. Here are a few pointers on the pitfalls that can be easily avoided.

Baring Your Mankles

The trend for going ‘sans sock’ has held steadfast for many a summer…

Men Fashion in wourld, New trands

Now that summer’s pretty much been and gone and sale rails have been picked over, it’s time to start getting excited for the season to come.

Well, maybe not excited, but definitely equipped. With harsher weather on the horizon, we turn our attention to the major autumn/winter 2015 trends and break down what’s worth spending on to brave the elements while looking bang on-trend.

1. The…

THE New Year brings old thoughts to mind. This time, our dear country, that we have grown to love and hate in the same breath, that has given us so much and asked for nothing in return, is presented with an opportunity that comes very rarely.

The year 2014 sees the arrival of a new leadership team into power in all countries in our region. A great cycle that began in Pakistan in March 2013 will…

Hypocrisy: the name of the game

FUMING and frothing they demand Musharraf be made an example of for his act of treason. They give long sermons on the virtues of democracy and on the curse of military dictatorship. Can anyone disagree? Certainly not. Surely the ghost of Bonapartism has to be buried once and for all to make democracy secure in this holy land.

But the irony is that the faces of many of those calling for the head…

Need to win media war

IN the strongest indication yet that the government may have decided that its chosen option of peace talks with the Taliban had run its course, the civil and military leadership met this week to look at operational measures to tackle rampant terrorism.

Of course any expectation of immediate action would be unrealistic as, sources say, first an infrastructure will need to be put in place which…

TTP’s pre-conditions for peace-talks

In relation to all the government-Taliban peace talk hustle a lot have been said from both sides of the opposing spectrums as what the conditions should be, how the talks should proceed, what is going to be offered and what not and so on. However, what came out today was a new piece of thread whereby the negotiators of Pakistani Taliban insurgents said that ‘there was no chance of peace in…

How to Pull Off Fall and Winter Fashion Trends in Warm Climates

As jealous as you might be of those areas of the country that are able to count a 50-degree winter day as not only normal but also—dare we say—even cold, jumping into cozy fall and winter fashion trends may be a bit daunting to stylish warm weather Americans. After all, wool and shearling aren’t exactly “essential” in say, Phoenix, Miami, or Houston. And while one might dabble in some cashmere…

Top Tips For Ladies During Winter Season

In this article we will highlight the latest and the top fashion tips for ladies in the winter season. When there is a change in the season from summer to the winter, certain things are changed, lifestyle and all so our dressing must be changed too. During summer, people wear any type of dress with nice sandals. It is the right of every woman to look decent and stylish so dress plays very…

Talat Hussain,Imran and Molana Faza-ur-Rehman

Ibn Khaldun and today’s Pakistan

Ibn Khaldun’s The Muqaddimah is often cited as the first work of historiography and the forerunner to the social sciences. However, he is best known for his theory of cyclical patterns of power – of the rise and fall of civilisations. Arnold Toynbee, the western historian, declared Muqaddimah to be “the greatest work of its kind that has ever yet been created by the human mind.”

According to Ibn…

U.S. Steps Up Its Attacks on ISIS-Controlled Oil Fields in Syria

ERBIL, Iraq — The United States and its allies have sharply increased their airstrikes against the sprawling oil fields that the Islamic State controls in eastern Syria in an effort to disrupt one of the terrorist group’s main sources of revenue, American officials said this week.

For months, the United States has been frustrated by the Islamic State’s ability to keep producing and exporting oil…