32,000 jobs offshored: Influencers claim H-1B visa crackdown backfired; jobs went to India owing to $100,000 fee

Based on reports that US tech majors, including Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Google, added 32,000 employees in India, social media influencers concluded that the H-1B crackdown has actually backfired and instead of creating more jobs for Americans, these jobs actually exited America as big companies offshored these jobs to India. The figure has been […]

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Durand under duress: How Pakistan’s Taliban gamble backfired – and why it struggles to contain TTP

Taliban fighters in Kabul, 2021; Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif (File photo: AP) Afghanistan and Pakistan have once again found themselves on the brink of open conflict after days of deadly cross-border fighting that exposed the fragility of their long and volatile frontier. Afghan officials said their forces killed 58 Pakistani soldiers in overnight “retaliatory operations,” […]

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