LAHORE: Hundreds of people from all walks of life attended the Faiz Aman Mela (peace festival) at the Open Air Theatre, Bagh-i-Jinnah, on Sunday. The festival, a part of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s 102nd birth anniversary celebrations, was organised by Faiz Aman Mela Committee and Awami Workers Party, in collaboration with the Punjab Council of Arts. […]
MULTAN: Devotees descended upon Kot Mithan in Rajanpur on Sunday for the 114th urs of sufi poet Khawaja Ghulam Fareed. More than 300 police personnel were deputed around the tomb for security. However, several dozens devotees protested against the deployment at and around the mausoleum and on roads leading to the tomb. These visitors and […]
ISLAMABAD: No human rights activist or political leader participated in a protest demonstration held here in solidarity with the family of 20-year-old Shahzeb Khan who was gunned down in Karachi on December 25, 2012. Only six students and a cousin of the victim were present outside the National Press Club. Umair Zaidi, a student belonging […]
By: Zainab Imam KARACHI: So you think you have read everything ever written by Jaun Elia? Think again. And you think he never sought anyone’s approval? Think again! In a small room, perhaps the smallest of all of Beach Luxury Hotel’s convention rooms, enthusiasts and fans of Jaun’s poetry were introduced to his prose work […]
KARACHI: Pakistan Herald Publications Limited has announced the inception of the ZM Award for Journalistic Excellence to recognise the contribution of seasoned journalist Zubeida Mustafa, both to Dawn and to the field of journalism in Pakistan. Zubeida Mustafa worked at Dawn for 33 years and has written extensively on education, international relations, women’s issues and […]
By: Ahtesham Azhar KARACHI: Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) is an effort to promote reading habit among people, connect ourselves with cultures of others through books, make relationship among writers, share narratives, build relationship among readers and writers and make strong link of readers with books. These views were shared by the Oxford University Press (OUP), […]
ISLAMABAD: The Josh Literary Foundation will arrange ‘Josh Literary Conference’ on February 22 to pay homage to the services of great revolutionary poet Josh Malihabadi on his 31st death anniversary. The conference will be arranged in collaboration with the Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL). Prominent poets and scholars, including Agha Nasir, Syed Mansoor Aqil, Dr […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA) would organise a free puppet show on Monday to entertain and educate children about social problems, including health, education and environment. An official of the PNCA said, “The puppet show at PNCA is a regular feature of the council presented by the National Puppet Theatre (NPT), on […]
By: Imtiaz Ali Karachi: The foreign media has least interest in covering Karachi killings partly because they were a routine matter, said Declan Walsh, the New York Times correspondent in Pakistan. He was speaking at a session titled “Pakistan through Foreign Eyes” on the third day of the 4th Karachi Literature Festival on Sunday. “Violence […]
By: JALIL HASSAN AKHTAR Lahore: According to a report of international organisation ‘Committee to Protect Journalists’ published on events of 2012 indicate that a total of 70 reporters died world-wide in the period. It accounts that 230 journalists during course of their duties were put in jail. In Pakistan 19 journalists who lost their lives […]
By: Syed Mohammad Ali While sensationalist rankings such as the one by the Thomson Reuters Foundation — which listed Pakistan as the third most dangerous place for women in the world a couple of years ago — are easily dismissible, it is harder to refute the fact that the majority of women in our country […]
By: Batool Zehra KARACHI: The early morning session on emerging writers may not have commanded the kind of crowd that was seen thronging George Galloway’s talk or the book launches for the more established Pakistani English novelists. But those who had rushed their Sunday morning breakfast (or skipped it altogether) were in for a treat. […]
By: Zaib Azkaar Hussain Karachi: The team of Tehrik-e-Niswan led by Sheema Kirmani stole the show at KLF by doing perfect dramatic reading of one of the plays written by renowned author Intizar Husain. Intizar Hussain, who himself was present as chief guest at the event, appreciated the team and said that he had written […]
KARACHI: The much awaited and highly anticipated exhibition ‘Labyrinth of reflections: the art of Rashid Rana 1992 – 2012’ opened at the Mohatta Palace Museum on Sunday. Expected to run for 12 months, ‘Labyrinth of reflections’ showcases Rana’s works from the past two decades, his growth as a painter in the early days to becoming […]
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