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Daily Archives: April 22, 2016

Karachi swings as Latin funk comes to town

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Karachi The Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture (IVS) was turned into the site of a massive carnival Wednesday evening as Group Fantasma, a Latin Funk Orchestra from Austin, Texas, churned out a memorable performance. The members of the nine-piece Grammy Award-winning group formed in 2000, which rendered Latin American numbers collected from Cuba, […]


Panama Papers: SCBA wants national task force to probe leaks

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LAHORE: The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has rejected the formation of judicial or parliamentary commissions to investigate the Panama leaks and instead proposed a national task force to probe into offshore assets of Pakistanis. The prime minister has announced the formation of a judicial panel to investigate the Panama Papers exposé, which has so […]


Earth Day 2016

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Earth Day, falling in April 22, was founded in 1970 by Gaylord Nelson, a US senator and naturalist and was first celebrated by some 20 million Americans from thousands of schools, colleges and civil society. Though a national event back then, it served as a linchpin for the first global initiative for an action plan […]


Pakistan to sign historic climate change pact today

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NEW YORK – Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan will today sign the Paris Agreement on climate change, adopted by more than 190 countries in December last at a high-level ceremony at UN Headquarters in New York. Nisar , who was speaking to US-based Pakistani media on Wednesday evening, said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif […]


Legal notices served on TV channel

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Finance Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar has taken strong exception to the defamatory and slanderous telecasts and publications against him by ARY News through its Programme “News @ 3 with Maria Memon” aired on 16th April 2016. In a statement issued by the Ministry of Finance here Thursday, spokesperson said that legal notices have been served […]


Rashid scoffs at imran’s adress to the nation

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ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid has asked Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan to put his own house in order before pointing fingers at others. Speaking on private television channels, Rashid countered accusations against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s family regarding offshore accounts as revealed by the Panama Papers. He said that the papers did not accuse […]


Parliament watch: Panama Papers — from opportunities to opportunism

The past week saw an unprecedented consensus being forged across the civil-military and political divides over the need for “across-the-board accountability”. Interestingly, it was the military that took the lead in bringing about this consensus, and political forces, including the PML-N, apparently fell in line. But the questions that are now doing the rounds in […]


60 heatwave response centres set up

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KARACHI: The city administration has set up 60 first response centres across Karachi which will be functioning from Friday (today) to respond to the ‘mild forecast’ made by the meteorological department for hot weather in the coming three days, officials said on Thursday. “Of the 171 first response centres, 60 will be functional from Friday […]


Inquiry shows three zoo black bucks died from mutual fight

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KARACHI: An inquiry report recently submitted to the commissioner Karachi has declared that a ‘mutual fight’ led to the death of ‘three male black bucks’ at the zoo a week ago, it emerged on Thursday. It rules out the possibility of an attack by stray dogs. The report prepared by a committee tasked to investigate […]