There was a time, back in the glory days of PTV, when streets would wear a deserted look during the broadcast of a popular drama serial. People would even schedule wedding functions around them and entire families got together to watch their favourite characters play out their lives on the small screen. More than a […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: A group of internationally known artists, critics and scholars highlighted some finer points of ceramic art in contemporary and historical contexts on the first day of a two-day international seminar held in connection with the fourth Asna clay triennial at the Rangoonwala Community Centre on Saturday. The day began with art […]
By: F. H. MUGHAL THE International Union for Conservation of Nature had recommended 22 years ago that 27maf water must flow downstream of Kotri annually and at least 6,000 cusecs all the time. These figures were probably recommended in 1991, in response to the Water Accord 1991. The old IUCN figures would no longer be […]
SIALKOT: Federal Minister for National Regulation and Services Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan inaugurated on Saturday newly-established IT labs in four government higher secondary schools (three for girls and one for boys) at Kotli Loharaana, Uggoki and Gohadpur. Speaking at the schools, she said the federal government had expanded the broadband network to the rural areas, […]
NOWSHERA: Unknown assailants shot dead in-charge nurse of the DHQ hospital Nowshera at a bus stop in Hakeemabad here on Saturday. Officials said the nurse Farzana Kawsar, wife of Sajjawal Khan of Hakeemabad, was waiting for office vehicle at the bus stop when unidentified assailants opened fire on her. As a result she got serious […]
KARACHI: A strike was observed on Sunday in most parts of the country including Karachi, Multan, Hyderabad, Lahore, Islamabad and Quetta against Thursday’s blasts in Balochistan’s provincial capital. Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf flew to Quetta on Sunday to meet locals holding a protest alongside the bodies of family members killed in one of […]
Shias demonstrate and sit between the coffins of bomb blast victims in Quetta on January 12, 2013. Shia families refusing to bury their dead after twin bombings in Pakistan’s troubled southwestern city of Quetta vowed to continue their sit-in protest until the army takes over security. As the devastated Shia protesters in Quetta continued their […]
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