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"In yet another knee-jerk reaction to curb #RenewableEnergy growth through #solar net metering amid high grid electricity costs, [#Pakistan's] government on Thursday reduced the buyback rate by two-thirds to Rs10 per unit and scrapped net billing.

The decision [is] applicable to new net-metering consumers."

dawn.com/news/1897740/solar-us

DAWN.COM · Solar users face higher costs as policy revisedBy Khaleeq Kiani

3rd century grey schist of #Maitreya (Bodhisattva), from the ancient region of #Gandhara of #Pakistan #Afghanistan which combines #Greek, #Roman, #Scythian & #Iranian with #Indian artistic modes on upcoming Sothebys sale of March 20, estimate £180,000-300,000

#TheGoldenRoad

Bodhisattva is the future & final #Buddha who is worshipped in many Asian #Buddhist cultures as a spiritual being on the path to enlightenment

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#DesiOSTs I love
Filmi qawwalis 'come from' Sufi religious qawwalis, like this one. Devout AND catchy, from my favourite Salman Khan film. This film shot in India about cross-border antics reminds me of my UP-born Dad who grew up near where this song is set in (now) Pakistan. Also, my non-Hindiphone wife groks the clear audible distinction between ख and ख़ (nukta) in the singer's voice, warming my urduphile heart #Hindi #Urdu #India #Pakistan #HindiCinema
youtube.com/watch?v=zk0-f92gg9

A new #TravelBan by #Trump could bar people from #Afghanistan & #Pakistan from entering the US as soon as next week based on a government review of countries' security & vetting risks, three sources familiar with the matter said.

#law #racism #discrimination #Islamophobia #RacialProfiling #USpol #geopolitics #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
reuters.com/world/us/new-trump

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"#Pakistan’s bees once produced 22 varieties of honey, but that has plummeted to 11 as flowering seasons shorten. Three of the country’s four honeybee species are endangered.

#Bees are threatened globally by changing weather patterns, intensive farming practices, land-use change, and pesticides."

aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/3/4
#ClimateInflation

Al Jazeera · Climate crisis threatens Pakistan’s bees and honey tradeBy Al Jazeera

started a #wikipedia article on German-born American anthropologist Hanna Kaiser Papanek (1927-2017); as a child she moved to Czechoslovakia, France, and New York to flee the Nazis. She sailed from Lisbon to New York City on the SS Nyassa in December 1940; the ship full of refugees was under distress on arrival. She earned a PhD at Harvard, and studied women's lives in Pakistan in the 1950s, Indonesia in the 1970s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Pa @wikiwomeninred #Pakistan #Indonesia #purdah