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Daily Archives: July 15, 2017

The climate-change emergency

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It cannot be said loud enough or often enough that Pakistan is galloping headlong into an emergency that it can do nothing to stop and very little to mitigate — climate change. Despite having a carbon footprint that is minuscule compared to the likes of America, continental Europe or China, Pakistan is in the top […]


The curious case of a film postponed

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KARACHI: There was something odd from the get-go about the premiere of the film Project Ghazi at a local cinema on Thursday evening. One thought that the stars of the movie — Humayun Saeed, Syra Shehroz and Sheheryar Munawar — not to mention its director Nadir Shah, were fashionably late. But they were inordinately late. […]


Project Shanakht goes digital

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KARACHI: The Citizens Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) has launched separate websites for the identification of unidentified bodies and stolen mobile phone verification. A launching ceremony was held at the CPLC headquarters at Governor House where Governor Mohammad Zubair inaugurated the websites by ‘pushing the button’ to launch them. Since its inception, CPLC has been successfully assisting […]