QUETTA: The Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences (BUITEMS) has awarded an honorary degree of doctorate of philosophy (PhD) to Syed Fasieh Iqbal, a journalist and former senator, for services in journalism, politics and social work. He was awarded the degree during the university convocation on Wednesday. Mr Iqbal, editor-in-chief of the […]
By: Sajid Zia LAHORE: Apparently to pay homage to the former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on her fifth death anniversary but actually taking advantage of the thin Opposition in the Punjab Assembly, the Government on Thursday approved seven bills to empower women. The government also okayed two another bills, making a total of nine that […]
ISLAMABAD: The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) has completed computerised electoral rolls of 85 million voters in four provinces including Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) and Federally Administrated Areas to be used in the upcoming general elections. “Two copies of the draft electoral rolls printed on 5.1 million pages containing 85 million voters were handed […]
Hyderabad: The provincial Culture Department has completed its three development schemes that would be inaugurated in next three to four days. According to details revealed by Provincial Secretary Culture Abdul Aziz Uqaili, a scheme of renovation of Shah-Jo-Bagh would be inaugurated by Chief Minister Sindh on December 30 at 4pm, while inauguration ceremony of another […]
LAHORE: Pakistan, with a population of almost 180 million, is world’s sixth most populous country where maternal and newborn child health situation is still a cause for concern. In the country, more than 320 mothers in every 100,000 live births die during pregnancy, childbirth and soon after, leaving behind devastated families. Similarly, nearly 78 children […]
YouTube watchers in Pakistan have now had to endure 100 days in solitude. The video-streaming website, for some unfathomable reason, still remains banned in the country. The original excuse for the ban — that the website was hosting an anti-Islam video — can no longer be the justification given that few even remember anything about […]
By: Mahrukh Abbasi KARACHI: Pleasant, humble, and passionate — this is how one would describe Indian writer-producer Shuchi Kothari who arrived from New Zealand on December 21 to attend a wedding in Karachi. During her seven-day vacation, Kothari said she loved hearing Tina Sani’s live performance, attending her best friend’s wedding, and the casual gathering […]
QUETTA: Four people, including two women, were killed in a road accident in the Bela area of Balochistan on Thursday. SHO Baila Police Station, Malik Abdul Jabbar Rhonjo said a speeding car coming from Karachi rammed into a truck at the Gador Mor. As a result, two women Bhoji Devi, Insa Devi, Hera Lala and […]
By: Muhammad Ali RELIGION is viewed as divine inspiration and as guidance for the salvation of human beings. When the divine message, which reveals itself through allegorical and symbolic language, is understood and practised by people in different contexts with different focuses, the understanding appears in the form of multiple interpretations. Hence, in the presence […]
By: Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has conceded that no female staff had been appointed for any polling station set up for the by-election held recently for a seat of Balochistan Assembly. Provincial Election Commissioner Sultan Bayadid told Dawn that there was no `women-only’ polling stations, but claimed that separate […]
By: Sadia Khan AT the recent South Asia Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium in Dhaka, 120 women participants from 11 countries came together to create cross-border linkages between women entrepreneurs and leaders in South Asia. After two days of deliberations on the challenges and opportunities for women entrepreneurs in governance, technology and trade, delegates from different countries […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: Gardens primarily symbolise two things: a personal space where one can find solace and can be at ease in feeling submissive; and the creation whose creator sits somewhere invisible to the naked eye and allows things to bloom or shrivel. Over the years artists and writers have used the garden metaphor […]
KARACHI: The difficulty with painting intangible things, such as the soul, is that it requires a certain high degree of imaginativeness to make the viewer feel as if the subject has a tactile quality to it. This is where the line between the tangible, the known and the undiscovered and the unknown lose its blurriness […]
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