IT By: Usman Cheema ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Interior has officially asked Pakistan Telecom Authority to block cellular service in different locations along the route of Tahirul Qadri’s long march. As the first step, complying with the orders from the Interior Ministry, PTA blocked the service in Lahore that was restored with the exit of […]
By: Nazir Siyal LARKANA: A young girl, abducted for rape was brutally injured by armed men in a village of Kashmore District.The relatives of the girl protested and demanded of the high authorities to bring culprits to justice. Earlier, when the victim was sleeping at her home with family in the jurisdiction of A-Section police, […]
By: Umer Farooq PESHAWAR: The jirga’s bombshell did little to stifle Muhammad Nawaz’s hope. “No, not my daughters,” he said to himself. The aggrieved father from Sherkhera village in Peshawar district did everything he could to prevent his nephews from getting away with a marriage claim against his two daughters. He became a fortress against […]
By: Darya Khan Chandio HYDERABAD: This is with reference to an article of January 5 by Ayesha Asghar titled “Targeting Hindu girls for rape”. I agree with the writer but would like to add my two cents about the role of national media on his issue. These days in Pakistan, the media is a powerful […]
QUETTA: “I was shifting the injured and the dead to different hospitals, when suddenly I heard another big explosion. I thought the sky had blown up, I saw myself wet with blood,” says Babul, the Balochistan in-charge of the Edhi Foundation. Babul is now admitted in Akram Hospital, after suffering serious injuries in the third […]
After getting rave reviews for the Urdu dubbing of Turkish soap Manahil aur Khalil, Express’ entertainment channel has two new foreign shows that promise to leave viewers glued to their TV screens. This time around, the channel will be launching two foreign contents — one of them is a Turkish mega hit serial Asi, while […]
Karachi: Traditional crafts which were a redeeming feature of our cultural heritage of thousands of years are directly threatened with extinction by the forces of modernisation and development. This was the crux of the movie produced by Nameera Ahmed screened on the second and final day of the seminar on ceramics and ceramics interpretation at […]
Karachi: A Qura’an Khwani was held at Karachi Press Club (KPC) on Sunday to mark the second death anniversary of slain journalist Wali Khan Babar. The event was attended, among others, by the representatives of Karachi Union of Journalists and KPC, including GM Jamali, Faheem Siddiqui, Faisal Aziz Khan, Abdul Qudoos, Imtiaz Khan Faran, Javed […]
KARACHI: The two-day international seminar on ceramic art organised in connection with the fourth ASNA clay triennial ended at the Rangoonwala community centre on Sunday. The first paper was read out by Swiss ceramist Claude Presset on ‘fascination for turquoise glazes’. Her research centred on the contemporary and historic context of the turquoise glaze which […]
KARACHI: A day of mourning and protest was observed on Sunday in the entire Sindh on a call given by the Majlis Wahdat-i-Muslimeen (MWM) which was supported by the Shia Ulema Council (SUC) and various political and religious organisations, including the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, against the Jan 10 Quetta carnage targeted against the Shia sect. […]
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