DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Persistent rains are playing havoc with the lives of people in Dera Ismail Khan, Mandi Bahuddin and other areas, as water enters their houses, causing massive damage to properties. Flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed least many people and destroyed hundreds of houses in different parts of the […]
By: MADIHA VIQUAR The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) were introduced a decade ago and it launched the new Multi-Biometric National Identity Card system in Pakistan. However, it seems that the authority has been incompetent in using this new technology. I reckoned this when recently two of my acquaintances, who are twins, applied for […]
ISLAMABAD: The government has allocated an amount of Rs 30 million for the construction of two new working women hostels in sector G 6/2 and G 7/3 in federal budget 2012-13 to address the grievances of working women facing acute problems in finding a secure accommodation at affordable rates. An official of ministry of human […]
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik has announced Tamgha-i-Imtiaz for Nadra Chairman Tariq Malik and his team forr creating the new IBM system The Interior Minister said Nadra team played a crucial role in creating Immigration Data System at airports. He said the new system will enable Nadra and FIA to share information. Rehman Malik said […]
By: Momina Sibtain KARACHI / LAHORE: Pakistan went from not having any multi-label web stores to having two at the same time! The Express Tribune speaks to the entrepreneurs behind these ventures about online retail shopping. Labels Retail store Labels has created a name for itself as one of the leading fashion multi-designer stores in […]
We may as well be living in a different time and age. It seems that life has not moved forward at all. We continue to carry out acts so gory it is hard to believe that human beings in this day and age would be capable of even considering them. The latest such incident has […]
By: Anwer Mooraj When I asked my friend Ghazi Salauddin of Geo for a selection of good, relatively recent Indian movies, he came up with four titles Dor, Rang de Basanti, Nobody killed Jessica and … Mr and Mrs Iyer. The last named was the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree. Indian cinema has come […]
BAHAWALPUR: A woman and her alleged paramour were drowned in the canal near Abbas Nagar on Sunday after they were thrown in by her family. The woman’s father, husband and three brothers are suspected. Rasheeda Bibi, mother of the deceased woman, told The Express Tribune that her husband had called her father on Sunday and […]
By: Riaz Ahmad PESHAWAR: A woman was strangulated allegedly by her husband in Mohallah Kumaran on Sunday, in the jurisdiction of Kutwali Police Station. Sehresh Fayaz was found dead in her house, while her husband, Saeed Awan, a bank employee, escaped. Fayaz Ahmad, the victim’s father, told The Express Tribune he was certain that his […]
LARKANA: August 24, 2012. (Nazir Siyal) Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and rest of Journalist bodies nationally failed to protect the working media men in districts; the district journalists have appealed the International Community and media Organizations to intervene and protect them from exploitation. According to the working journalistic bodies in various districts have […]
By: Zulfiqar Ali DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Flash floods across different parts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) left four people injured and several houses and roads submerged, causing widespread damage to property after heavy rainfall on Sunday. Dera Ismail Khan District was highly affected after the Kulachi-Ruree Road, Ruree-Gara Gull Dad Road and other link roads in the […]
By: Rabia Ali KARACHI: Once upon a time a young girl left her family and religion for the man she loved. After getting married, her husband flew her off to his land. This land, however, was not far, far away and there was definitely no happily ever after: she, now, lives in Landhi, Karachi, locked […]
By: Saira Agha Radio Pakistan’s English Channel Planet FM 94, after its success in Islamabad, was launched in Lahore on Saturday. The new station caters to all the English song lovers and enthusiasts of our country. The launch took place at the PBC Broadcasting Centre on Empress Road where a large number of Pakistani music […]
By: Ahtesham Azhar KARACHI: VM Art Gallery recently oragnised a group show exhibition entitled ‘Just Ordinary Tales’ of Master’s Programme students of National College of Arts (NCA), held here at the premises of VM Art Gallery. The artist, who presented their artworks were Mohsin Shafi, Nida Bangash, Mizna Zulfikar, Saamia Ahmed, Shajia Azam, Rabiya Asim, […]
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