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Daily Archives: May 29, 2011

Book launch: ‘Teach children in their mother language, build their self-confidence’

By Mahnoor Sherazee KARACHI: Are we restricting our children’s cognitive development by teaching them in a foreign language in primary schools? Dawn columnist Zubeida Mustafa certainly believes so. After extensive research and a great deal of groundwork, Mustafa launched her book ‘Tyranny of Language in Education: The Problem and its Solution’ at the press club […]


Call to reduce communication gap between Pakistan, Iran

By: Asma Ghani ISLAMABAD — There should be close cooperation between Pakistan and Iran to bridge up the communication gaps and there is a need to end reliance on foreign media and have direct communication with each other to counter the fabricated stories about both the countries spread by the western media. Adviser to Iran’s […]


Man gets life sentence for murder

Karachi: A rapist-cum-murderer, already serving a lengthy prison term for a woman’s murder, was sentenced to life in prison on Saturday. Rizwan Ali a relative of Shabana, forcibly entered the house of Mohammed Anwer in the night between November 12 and 13, 2006 within the remit of Gulshan-e-Iqbal police station and when he found that […]


Study conducted at LUMHS: Women more prone to self-immolation than men

HYDERABAD: There is always an underlying reason, either psychological or personal, for an individual to attempt suicide as the thought does not arise in a jiffy. It is always an incident that forces a person to take this extreme action, some in a violent fit of anger and others through a calculated move. Moreover, women […]


PML-N requisitions NA session over in camera resolution

By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD: With just a week to go before the budget session of the National Assembly, the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-N on Saturday requisitioned an emergency session of the house to discuss the delay in formation of an independent commission to investigate the Abbottabad raid in which Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden […]


Man gets life for murder

Karachi: A rapist-cum-murderer, already serving a lengthy prison term for a woman’s murder, was sentenced to life in prison on Saturday. Rizwan Ali a relative of Shabana, forcibly entered the house of Mohammed Anwer in the night between November 12 and 13, 2006 within the remit of Gulshan-e-Iqbal police station and when he found that […]