By Hidayat Khan PESHAWAR: He stumbled upon his love of music in college and since then he has never really looked back. Rahim Khan, a lawyer by profession, sang his first song in Nishtar Hall, “Da Zama Pa Tamasha Wa” (She Was Looking At Me With Love) in 1991 in a grand show organised by […]
A more holistic view is required to put things into perspective and decide on a way forward for the mutual benefit of the nation and the province. The Supreme Court’s warnings regarding Balochistan are no doubt apt. That the province is indeed sliding into anarchy right before our very eyes and that the Court has […]
KARACHI: The budget of education in the province would be doubled from Rs 7 billion to Rs 15.5 billion. This was announced by the Sindh Minister for Education, Pir Mazhar ul Haq. He was laying the foundation stone of the Education Complex here on Thursday. The building would be constructed at a cost of about […]
KARACHI: A leading global technology infrastructure provider and an IT consulting company TEXPO Group of Companies, UAE, has announced 25 scholarships for IT students of six state universities in Pakistan under a talent hunt programme. These students were selected among 371 contestants from six universities, including NED University, Karachi University, Jamshoro, Balochistan and Peshawar, through […]
PESHAWAR: Police recovered a 13-year-old kidnapped girl in a raid on house in Daudzai area here on Thursday. A police official said that the girl identified as Rimsha, daughter of Rehmat Khan, belonged to Dir and was kidnapped from Islamabad. He said that the girl had been sold allegedly by her maternal uncle for Rs60,000. […]
ACCORDING to media reports, authorities in Pakistan shut down social networking website Twitter for several hours after government found blasphemous material on the site. Only a year ago, another social networking website Facebook received same treatment in several countries. It is a fact that despite their growing popularity, social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter and […]
Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD: The National Economic Council (NEC) has increased the allocation for next year’s Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) to Rs873 billion, about Rs48 billion more than approved by the Annual Plan Coordination Committee (APCC) and about 19.6 per cent more than the current year’s allocation of Rs730 billion. The NEC meeting held on […]
KARACHI: A woman identified a suspected kidnapper before a judicial magistrate on Thursday and deposed that he not only abducted her but also subjected her to gang-rape along with his two accomplices. The woman recorded her statement under Section 164 of the criminal procedure code in the court of judicial magistrate (south) where police had […]
Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: The Speaker of the National Assembly, Dr Fehmida Mirza, saved Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani from being disqualified on Thursday, only to unleash a heated debate among the legal fraternity on her role and the legality of her decision, and threats from political opponents to challenge her decision in a court […]
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