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Daily Archives: February 6, 2013

From dark skins to white masks, the gori details of women’s quest for fairness

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By Atika Rehman / Creative: Maha Haider Glutathione isn’t approved in the US but is popular in many clinics and administered via IV and injection. KARACHI: Sahar Ahmed was 13 years old when she first started smoking. A decade of chain smoking later, her face showed signs of the toxicity that nicotine and tar bequeath: […]


The real daughter of the nation

By Sohail Malala Yousafzai, the brave young girl from Swat who fought for female empowerment through education, has undergone reconstructive surgery to her skull and is on her way to full recovery. She may be out of the hospital ward but she is not out of danger. The Taliban still have a bounty on her […]


Foundation stone laying ceremony of cultural institute: Sassui vows to safeguard Sindh’s cultural heritage at all levels

* Fall of precious cultural buildings is being awaited for raising multi-storey buildings, observes Amar Jaleel By Nawaz Khuhro KARACHI: Sindh Culture Minister Sassui Palijo vowed on Tuesday to safeguard cultural heritage of Sindh at all levels and said that her department was determined to promote cultural values by initiating various projects across the province. […]


KWF Women Forum organises women rights seminar

KARACHI: A seminar was organised by KFC Women Forum (KWF) in collaboration with Business Professional Women South Club to create awareness regarding the rights of women, here at Dr SRA Women’s Complex Auditorium on Tuesday. Eminent speakers, including Khanum Gohar Ijaz, Barrister Shahida Jameel, Rukhsana Asghar, CEO Fulcrum, and Afroze Malik, spoke about the rights […]


Rumpus in PTA HQ as power struggle continues

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By Jawwad Rizvi and Zubair Kasuri Senior officials seen in CCTV footage trying to harass or kidnap two members who opposed hasty $2 billion 3G auction LAHORE: After removal of the former PTA chairman Farooq Awan and repatriation of various officials to their parent departments, smooth functioning of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has been […]


‘Philosophy’ opens at Chawkandi Art Gallery

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Peerzada Salman KARACHI: Photographers capture moments to lend immortality to them. The photographers that understand the fact that more often than not moments carry stories fraught with many a moment within themselves (of joy, sadness and indifference) and encapsulate them according to their mood or feeling become artists. Therefore very few camera-clickers create art. Arif […]


Model village in Darya Khan Flood victims decry ‘nepotism’

BHAKKAR: Flood victims have protested against the alleged nepotism during the allotment of houses and shops in the model village established in Darya Khan. They told The News that the Punjab government had spent millions of rupees on a model village established in Basti Katt located in Angra Daggar Union Council, Darya Khan. They alleged […]