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Daily Archives: March 23, 2013

Tests of science, technology & good communication

TODAY the world walks over the road of science and technology. Whether it is business, education, health, commerce, or economic conditions, a potential difference has always been found among them all. Good professionals of related areas and sectors are busy enhancing their business activities, debiting liabilities, and increasing proprietorship and capital through financing in tangible […]


34 women declared Kari, killed in Feb: PCHR

BAHAWALPUR – In the last month, 34 women and two men were killed by declaring them Kari while 174 people including 45 women committed suicide and 40 people were sexually harassed, disclosed Muhammad Baqaruz Zaman, a representative of the Pakistan Commission for Human Rights, at Liaquatpur. However, 58 people including 21 women attempted suicide but […]


Copyright laws: Pirated books seized from printing press

LAHORE: Around 11,000 pirated copies of Oxford textbooks New Active English Book 2 and New Oxford Social Studies for Pakistan Book 3 as well as 65 printing plates were recovered in a raid on a printing press by the FIA and New Anarkali police on Friday. Upon receiving reports of the illegal printing of Oxford […]


Operationalising contemporary dialectics through art & media

By Andaleeb Rizvi KARACHI: A group show ‘As and when it happens’ concluded at ArtChowk The Gallery on Friday. All three artists, Syed Muhammad Raza, Farrukh Adnan, and Abdullah Qamar worked on contemporary themes that are very much related to life in the metropolitan city, struck with strife, fluidity of morals and absurdity of the […]


Civil awards for Parween Rahman, Malala’s friends

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari approved on Friday civil awards for Dr Parween Rahman, a human rights activist and director of the Orangi Pilot Project who was recently murdered in Karachi, and Shazia Ramzan and Kainaat Riaz, school fellows of Malala Yousufzai who survived an attack by militants last year. Sitara-i-Shujaat will be conferred posthumously […]