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Human rights and the future

Rafia Zakaria THE Human Rights Commission of Pakistan’s annual report was released last week. Unsurprisingly, it is a compendium of the country’s failures over the past year. From freedom of thought and religion to freedom of movement, nearly every area seems to have suffered — and suffered tremendously. In 2012, 583 Pakistanis were killed in […]


Sherry among world’s top women of impact

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WASHINGTON: A prominent American organisation dedicated to women’s advancement has recognised Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States Sherry Rehman as one of the top influential woman leaders in the world. Calling her a ‘Master Tactictian’, the Women in the World Foundation goes on to say, “Sherry Rehman, Pakistan’s ambassador to the US, is known for […]


Female home based workers demand formal status

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KARACHI – Speakers at the 3rd annual convention of home-based women workers federation (HBWWF) demanded the government to declare status of 10 million informal workers equal to those of formal sector. The convention held at PMA House, was attended by women workers from different parts of the province who through adopting resolutions demanded government to […]


Mela brings cultural colours to Islamabad

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ISLAMABAD – The folk festival ‘Lok Mela’ organised by Lok Virsa (National Institute of Folk & Traditional Heritage) is now becoming the talk of the town, as more and more people are keep pouring in to witness the event with all its festivities. Enthusiasts, who seem to have been exhausted from the hot summer days […]


Panchayat decree: 13-year-old ‘vani’, mother flee

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BAHAWALPUR: A woman left her house on Tuesday, taking along her 13-year-old daughter after a village panchayat in Sadiqabad declared the child ‘vani’ to settle an alleged elopement complaint, The Express Tribune has learnt. Bashir Ahmed, uncle of the child, said his brother Nazir Ahmed, who worked in Jhelum, had been accused of eloping with […]


Media restrictions: ECP denies closing doors on journalists

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ISLAMABAD: In an attempt to make things more coordinated between the Election Commission of Pakistan and the media, the electoral body on Tuesday appointed a focal person who will now be the link between the ECP and the media. The ECP has also barred its officials from giving statements directly to the media. The move […]


Survey: People want ‘media transparency’

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KARACHI: An overwhelming number of people voted for more transparency to three questions posed by The Express Tribune on its poll on Tuesday. The three questions posed to readers in the online survey were “Should government departments other than security agencies be allowed to distribute secret funds?” To this, the overwhelming response was “No”. To […]


Watercolour paintings from Karachi & Lahore go on display

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By Arsalan Haider LAHORE: Watercolour paintings by 16 artists from Karachi and Lahore featured at Coopera Art Gallery here on Tuesday. Several renowned artists, art teachers, students and art lovers thronged to the gallery on the first day. The exhibition displays around 73 art works by nine artists of Karachi and seven from Lahore. The […]


Govt ads to newspapers up by 10pc

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KARACHI: The caretaker federal Minister for Information, Arif Nizami, has approved a 10 per cent increase in government advertisements for newspapers. Talking to members of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society during a visit to the APNS House here on Monday, Mr Nizami said the ministry was playing the role of a facilitator as it was […]


Aangan Terrha makes it past 100!

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The hit theatre show based on the hit TV series takes a bow in Karachi Yes, Aangan Terrha – brought to you in association with Geo TV and Jang Group – became the first play in the history of Karachi to run for 100 days straight. It has come to my knowledge that Janam Janam […]


Karo-Kari claims nine lives in Sukkur

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SUKKUR: Nine people were killed over Karo-Kari in separate incidents here in Sukkur region on Tuesday. Reports said that in Thulh town of Jacobabad accused Muhammad Hassan Burriro shot dead his daughter Shazia and her alleged paramour Babar Golo in a local market allegedly over Karo-Kari. Later, he managed to flee from the scene.In Village […]


Portrait of an artist

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Peerzada Salman KARACHI: An exhibition of renowned artist Nahid Raza’s latest body of work opened at the Canvas Art Gallery on Tuesday evening. Nahid Raza has proven credentials as one of Pakistan’s leading woman artists. Her exploration of female condition, sometimes dubbed feminism, and her figurative paintings have been discussed and admired to death. Recently […]


‘Balochistan still an unexplored archaeological zone’

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KARACHI: In a brief but enlightening lecture, German archaeologist Dr Ute Franke touched on the historical and archaeological links that exist between Herat and Pakistan’s province of Balochistan. The lecture titled ‘Antiquities of Herat with Special Reference to Balochistan’s Artifacts in Sindh’ was organised by the culture department of the Sindh government at the National […]


‘Saving a cinema house is like saving film industry’

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Madeeha Syed KARACHI: “A film runs in cinemas. It is their retail shop through which they get their product to the people. It generates revenue for the film. If you don’t have cinemas, then you don’t have a working film industry,” stressed Nadeem Mandviwalla, the owner and managing director of Mandviwalla Entertainment — that also […]