Kamran Yousaf ISLAMABAD: Signing of a new visa regime between Pakistan and India was put on hold on Friday after Islamabad suggested that the agreement should be signed at the political level. The accord was supposed to be inked at the end of two-day talks between the interior secretaries of the two neighbours on Friday. […]
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Information Technology Muhammad Raza Haroon announced on Friday that an electronic driving licence system was being launched this month across the province. During a visit to a driving licence office branch in Korangi, the minister said this e-licence system was a part of the e-policing project that would be handed over […]
Islamabad: National Highways and Motorways Police (NH&MP) extends its partnership to ATV electronic media channel along with Ufone to help in achieving the goal of road safety. Inspector General Wajid Ali Khan presided at ceremony arranged for signing Memor-andum of Understandings (MoU) with ATV and Ufone here on Friday. Speaking on the occasion, the Inspector […]
Moazam Baig LAHORE: Carla Koppell, special assistant to the USAID administrator and director of gender equity programme, was on a one-day visit to the provincial metropolis. Daily Times captured the opportunity and talked to her about various issues ranging from USAID funding in Pakistan to its special focus on women’s empowerment. Carla Koppell had directed […]
Ahtesham Azhar KARACHI: Goethe Institut launched a bilingual book of poems entitled ‘Jub Tera Samandar Ankoh Main’ featuring poems in Urdu and German languages by renowned poet of the country, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, at a ceremony at the Institut on Friday evening. Daughter of Faiz, Salima Hashmi, was the chief guest at the ceremony, while […]
SUKKUR: Two women were among three killed over Karo-Kari in the Sukkur region on Friday. Police said Ghulam Muhammad Sabzoi killed his sister-in-law Afghana over illicit relations in village Nawab Sabzoi of Kandhkot and fled from the scene. Police shifted the body to hospital but failed to arrest the killer. In another incident, Muhammad Bakhsh […]
KARACHI: Speakers highlighted the merits of literary pursuits at an event organised to celebrate the centenary of the esteemed Urdu literary journal Ismat at the Arts Council Karachi on Friday. A copy of the magazine published in 1908. — Photo by White Star Eminent scholar Aftab Ahmed Khan, who presided over the event, said Urdu […]
KARACHI: A group show titled ‘Fusion of contemporary art’ opens at the Citi Art Gallery on Saturday at 6pm. The participating artists are: Mansur Aye, Mansur Rahi, Hajra Mansur, Zoay, Tasaduq Sohail, Dr S. Ali Wasif, Mashkoor Raza, Mansur Saleem, Shimmi Ahmed, Mahnaz Lakha, Aziz Hassan, Tabinda Chinoy, Mehtab Ali, Moin Shah, A.S. Rind, G.N. […]
GUJRANWALA: The police have claimed that eight-year-old Sobia was beaten and thrown along the GT Road by her stepmother. Addressing a press conference here on Friday, SSP Operations Kamran Yousaf said that they had arrested the victim’s stepmother Nasira Parveen and father Lashkar Ali. He disclosed that Sobia’s mother had died eight years ago and […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed concern at denial of due rights to Dr Shakil Afridi, the man accused of helping the US find Osama bin Laden, who has been convicted to 33 years in prison, and demanded that irrespective of the charges against him he must get a LAHORE, May […]
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