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‘He wanted to quit smoking, they snuffed out his life’

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LAHORE: Twenty-eight-year-old Aqaash Arsalan was so excited about his wedding that he even decided to quit smoking. “When he expressed his desire to the family, we were astonished as he was a chain smoker and had been trying to get him to quit for years,” says his brother Sibghat Khokhar. He was taken to the Promise […]


Faking news to win

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Disinformation and propaganda for achieving one’s ends by foul means is not a new phenomenon. Around 320 BC Kautilya’s Arthashastra enunciated this as a state policy, in recent times, the Pakistan Army and the ISI have borne the brunt of those lies. Perpetrators of fake news have financial, ideological or political motives. Posing a greater […]


Red Arrows, PAF jets entertain crowd at Seaview beach

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KARACHI: Despite the blazing sun, the Seaview beach on Thursday afternoon had many people wearing goggles and caps, and looking skywards. Some of them had also brought umbrellas. And all were waiting for the Red Arrows’ air show. Said to be the public face of the British Royal Air Force (RAF), the Red Arrows are […]