Saadia Qamar KARACHI: Former Miss Pakistan Roomi Syed is not just a model, poet and writer — she’s now a fashion designer too. She recently opened up a boutique and production house in Karachi’s Khadda Market. The Express Tribune spoke to the former pageant queen about her fashion inspiration and her latest endeavours. Her background […]
Lahore: A six-member media delegation from leading German Press called on Punjab University Vice Chancellor, Professor Dr Mujahid Kamran at his office here on Monday. PU Registrar, Professor Dr Khan Raas Masood, Director External Linkages, Maria I Maldonado, faculty members and journalist from German media including Dr Erentraud Homberg, Dr Manfred Hettlage, Ron Giger, Kurt […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Monday expressed concern over the sufferings of the civilian population in Lyari, where law enforcement agencies’ operation against organised crime has been going on for several days. The commission said, “HRCP is not in a position to comment on the nature and utility of the operation […]
Karachi: A man killed his wife and her alleged paramour in their residence in the Shershah police limits on Monday, police said.Rameena, 25, and her paramour Sabirullah, 28, were killed while her another paramour Hazratullah suffered bullet injuries when her husband Roedad Khan returned from work to their Paracha Chowk residence in Lane No. 1 […]
Sidrah Roghay Karachi: When people complain of their busy schedule as an excuse for not reading, Ghazi Salahuddin gives them President Obama’s example. “During his election campaign when he got off a plane, he had in his hand a book and a finger inserted in the middle to serve as a bookmark. One cannot be […]
Muhammad Ejaz Khan QUETTA: The Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Monday directed all the four provincial secretaries local governments to inform the apex court about the date of the next local bodies (LB) elections by May 3. The chief justice warned that elected governments would land in trouble if they violate the […]
LAHORE: Twelve rights based civil society organisations have strongly urged the Federal and Provincial governments to fulfil their commitments regarding peoples’ rights enshrined in the constitution of Pakistan. After a consultation meeting in Lahore they demanded speedy process of establishing independent and autonomous Human Rights Institutions in accordance with the Paris Principles. “These steps are […]
Bassam Javed Consequent to US-Nato’s blatant attacks on Pakistan Army’s military check-post at Salala that killed twenty-four of its finest soldiers, the western media lately appeared to have reduced its throttle on anti-Pakistan propaganda. The easing out of the malicious campaign is not out of any guilt on Salala massacre or love to Pakistan but […]
Murtaza Ali Shah LONDON: Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office drew a bleak picture of Pakistan’s human rights record on Monday and continued to bracket Pakistan amongst the countries of “serious concerns” along with Afghanistan, China, Iran, Russia and Saudi Arabia. Foreign Secretary William Hague released the 2011 Human Rights and Democracy report on Monday, only […]
Khawar Ghumman and Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD: There is no let-up in the rising political temperature in the country. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, at centre of a controversy after his conviction for contempt, continued with his defiant mood on Monday. The prime minister, while speaking at a ceremony in the morning, publicly criticised the […]
THOUGH religious militants are capable of carrying out all sorts of atrocities, when victims are beheaded even the most jaded observer is left shaken. That was the gruesome fate which met British aid worker Khalil Dale, whose slaughtered body was discovered in a Quetta orchard on Sunday. Mr Dale, a convert to Islam who worked […]
Ikram Junaidi ISLAMABAD: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has said that it does not want any rift among the pillars of state. MQM leader Haider Abbas Rizvi said at a press conference on Monday that his party was evaluating the situation after the Supreme Court’s order against the prime minister in the contempt case and […]
Baqir Sajjad Syed RAWALPINDI: Setting the ground rules for ending the politico-judicial impasse that has gripped the country since Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s conviction by the Supreme Court in the contempt case last week, Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani urged all organs of the state to adhere to their roles defined by the […]
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