KARACHI: Scholarly papers were read out at a conference titled Tareekh Aur Awam, organised by Tareekh (quarterly), Karachi University’s Pakistan Study Centre and Jinnah Medical and Dental College at the college’s auditorium on Saturday. The first session of the moot, presided over by Prof Sahar Ansari, was dedicated to Nazeer Akbarabadi. Known historian Dr Muabarak […]
KARACHI- The Coke Studio platform embarks on its fourth season starting from May 22 bringing back a musical fusion of exciting elements and diverse influences, ranging from traditional eastern, modern western and regionally inspired music. With its fourth season, Coke Studio grows to encompass a wider arc of diversity as the voyage of discovery continues […]
Muhammad Zahid Rifat With the demise of Abdul Hameed, popularly known as A. Hameed, a prolific writer, especially about Lahore, its people and its culture and traditions, has passed into eternity. If anyone wanted to know how Lahore looked like in the 1950s, 1960s and onwards, and also about the literary and cultural luminaries of […]
LAHORE: A strong protest was lodged on Multan Road near Mansoora against two brothers, one of them a lawyer, and the Racecourse women police for allegedly torturing to death two teenaged sisters on Wednesday. As police tried to disperse the protesters, they reportedly pelted the law enforces with stones, ensuing a clash between the two […]
LAHORE: Pakistan Girl Guides Association (PGGA) President Aamna Taseer has said that the PGGA is the largest voluntary organisation in Pakistan that provides a training platform for girls in various fields, and help them become responsible citizens of the country. She said this while presiding over the PGGA General Council’s annual meeting at the Punjab […]
By Kashif Ansari BAHAWALPUR: A man in Lahore divorced his first wife and killed his three-year old daughter, allegedly to please his second wife. According to police officials in Lahore, Tariq, an unemployed alcoholic, killed his three-year old daughter Maheen and then brought her in to a hospital. It is unclear whether he admitted to […]
ISLAMABAD: PML-N`s Ishaq Dar is set to become new opposition leader in the Senate after a group of 25 opposition senators submitted a request to Senate Chairman Farooq H. Naek on Saturday for his appointment. According to an official announcement by the PML-N, the opposition senators nominating Mr Dar as the opposition leader belonged to […]
Tariq Butt & Umar Cheema ISLAMABAD: Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt-Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha told the joint parliamentary session that CIA contractor and killer of two Pakistanis Raymond Davis was handed over to the US on orders of President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, a PML-N MP quoted the chief […]
THIS is apropos of the news item, ‘Website puzzle for HEC’ reported by Imran Ali Teepu (April 26). It is sad to note that the institution has been totally clueless about the presence of a mock website, but I was surprised to read the statement of the so-called IT expert about Google placing its advertisements […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) Saturday joined hands with Universal Service Fund (USF) to promote the development of telecom services in the un-served areas across the country. PTCL has redefined the established boundaries of the telecommunications market and was shifting the productivity functions to newer heights, said a press release. PTCL was in partnership […]
Nasir Chishti RAWALPINDI: While strongly protesting the advertisements’ ban on Jang Group and closure of Geo Super and Aag channel, traders organisations of Rawalpindi have made it clear on Saturday that if the government and Pemra do not allow Geo Super and Aag channel to resume telecasts then traders of the whole province of Punjab […]
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