BY: RAHMA MUHAMMAD MIAN We have yet to learn how to grieve as a nation the thousands of names and the unnamed. If we stopped for a second to make the pain register, perhaps something unimaginable would happen to us as a people. Perhaps, for now, because it is so unbearable, our grief has been […]
KARACHI: Minister for Education and Literacy Pir Mazharul Haq, Minister for Excise & Taxation Mukesh Kumar Chawla and Revenue Minister Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar have congratulated newly-elected office-bearers of Democrats and their success in elections of the Karachi Press Club. In their statements, the ministers congratulated Democrats President Imtiaz Faran, Vice President Saeed Sarbazi, Secretary […]
BHAKKAR: A group discussion revealed that merger of Masjid Maktab schools with government schools arranged by Community Action Group (CAG) – a district based budget tracking forum- at the office of Awam Dost Foundation here the other day. The members of Community Action Groups reviewed districts education budget, especially with gender perspective. Community Action Group […]
By: Kaswar Klasra ISLAMABAD: Shahzeb’s departed soul must be feeling well on Sunday following a rare statement issued by Ansar Burney, country’s diehard human rights activist whose services have been acknowledges worldwide, that government should arrest the alleged murderer who belongs to Sindh’s most influential and landlord Talpur family. “Murder of youth in broad daylight, […]
By: Mohsin Ali ISLAMABAD: The ongoing bilateral cricket series between Pakistan and India after a lapse of five years is a total loss as far as Pakistan Cricket Board finances are concerned. The situation as far as Pakistani cricket mad fans or even sports journalists are concerned is alarming as Indian High Commission has so […]
Women living in comparatively more conservative parts of the country, such as Dir and parts of Mianwali district have routinely been denied the right to vote. Sad as it is, even the major mainstream parties, the PPP and the PML-N, have been colluding with local influentials to disenfranchise women. A few brave women, who came […]
KARACHI: Lack of coordination is hampering sustainable management of coastal resources, said speakers at a national stakeholders’ consultation workshop organised by the Mangroves for the Future Programme here. Thirty participants representing various governments, non-government and academic organisations attended the workshop with the objective of providing input for the preparation of a handbook on coastal areas […]
LAHORE: As many as 24 calligraphy pieces by Ali Asad Naqvi at the Drawing Room Art Gallery trace roots of Islamic and Western civilisations. The work combines words of ancient Latin and Arabic texts. This is the first solo show by Naqvi, 26. He says: “I wanted to show my inclination towards merging the scripts […]
By: Jawad Hussain Aadil ISLAMABAD: Skyfall, the most recent James Bond flick to hit the cinema screens, is premised on cybercrime. One of the scenes in the movie shows the antagonist, an evil genius, manipulating everything from stock prices to power systems from a laptop from a remote location. The possibility is not too far […]
By: Kashif Zafar RAHIM YAR KHAN: In the small hours of Saturday night, the family of 18-year-old Amna raised a hue and cry that the girl had died of a heart attack. The truth, however, was that Amna had been killed by her family members over a suspected ‘romantic liasion’. Four days ago, Amna was […]
By: Asna Ali A vicious gang rape case in New Delhi has brought the problem of sex crimes in India back into focus. The details of this incident are horrific. A 23-year-old woman was brutally attacked on a bus while travelling with a male friend. She was raped and beaten so badly that she couldn’t […]
Karachi: A trade union activist is facing a death threat for his efforts to have the factory workers in the Korangi Industrial Area (KIA) registered by a labour welfare organisation. Malik Amjad Awan has been warned that if he did not stop working for the welfare of the labourers, he should be ready to get […]
By: Saleem Shahid QUETTA: A car bomb hit a convoy of three Iran-bound buses in Mastung district on Sunday, setting one of the buses on fire and killing at least 20 Shia pilgrims and injuring 25 others. The pilgrims belonged to different parts of Punjab. The other two buses were partially damaged. According to official […]
By: M. ASIF IN the recent shooting spree by a 20-year-old man in Newtown, Connecticut, 26 people, including 20 children, were killed. This unfortunate incident took place in a country which is regarded as a leader in the freedom of speech and communication. But hats off to their media which neither showed details of even […]
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