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Daily Archives: June 30, 2015

Heatstroke leaves another 26 dead in Sindh

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KARACHI: While the weeklong spell of heatwave has ended, with the Sindh government putting the figure of those affected by heatstroke at 100,000 in Karachi only, at least 26 more victims died in the city and two other districts on Monday. Of the latest deaths, 20 were reported from Karachi and three each from Dadu […]


Right to know: Activists stress for implementation of right to information law

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HYDERABAD: Civil society activists pressed for implementing the provincial law that grants the public access to information regarding government functionaries and official documents. The participants at a dialogue on Sunday also pointed out flaws and ambiguities in the Sindh Freedom of Information Act, 2006, which the officials allegedly manipulate to keep information from the people. […]


‘I want the Burka Avenger film to be as good as a Pixar movie’

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KARACHI: It has barely been over a month since 3 Bahadur — Pakistan’s first ever animated film — was released but the staggering success it achieved has propelled a new wave in Pakistani filmmaking and animation. The next offering is likely to come from Unicorn Black studios, the geniuses behind everyone’s favourite veiled super heroine, […]


Six-year-old British-Pakistani becomes world’s youngest MS PowerPoint specialist

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A six-year-old British-Pakistani boy has become the youngest person in the world to become a Microsoft Office Specialist for PowerPoint. This is the second feat for Humza Shahzad in two months. In May, the six-year-old from London’s East Croydon became the youngest person in the world to become a Microsoft Office Specialist for Office Word […]


JI for probing BBC report

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LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami chief Senator Sirajul Haq has said that PPP and MQM are jointly responsible for the problems of entire Sindh province including Karachi. Addressing a press conference at Mansoora on Monday, he demanded thorough investigation of the allegations leveled against the MQM. The matter should not be winded up as had been done in […]