* PML-Q MNA calls attack on his residence during power riots a ‘conspiracy’ LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) MNA from Kamalia and National Assembly Standing Committee on Human Rights Chairman Riaz Fatyana said on Sunday he was getting life threats from opponents. Addressing a press conference, he demanded that the Punjab government provide him security […]
Karachi: Music lovers of the city were entertained to a second — and final — musical tribute to the late Mehdi Hassan on Sunday evening. There was a wide array of artistes who paid the departed maestro homage with their mellifluous voices, rendering Ghazals origninally rendered by the late King of Ghazal. Among these was […]
Karachi: A total of 300 girls and boys from 40 cities and villages, each of them brimming with energy, attended the inauguration of the 11th Young Leaders Conference (YLC) by the School of Leadership (SoL) here on Sunday. The theme of this year’s conference is “dream the unseen, believe the unknown, achieve the impossible.” The […]
RAWALPINDI: Congress leader Rumi Nath, who represents Borkhola Assembly constituency, married Jaki Jakir, a Muslim, last month and converted to Islam. She had allegedly not divorced her first husband. Superintendent of Police Pradip Pujari said that five people, suspected to have been involved in the attack, have been arrested.Mrs Nath was visiting her constituency in […]
PESHAWAR: Pakistan People’s Party Sherpao (PPP-S) Chief Aftab Sherpao has asked the government and non-governmental organisations to take steps for women empowerment and protection of their rights to ensure a peaceful society. Talking to a delegation led by Aware Girls, a non-governmental organisation working on women awareness and empowerment here on Sunday, he said the […]
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain asked Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf on Sunday to fast-track legislation on lifting the embargo on overseas Pakistanis from taking part in elections. During a telephonic chat, both the leaders agreed to abolish the law barring dual nationals from contesting elections.They said overseas Pakistanis played an […]
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: A woman was killed after she refused to give her daughter’s hand in marriage to a youth in the village of Deedar Rind near Mehrabpur on Sunday. Five gunmen entered the house of Sajan Rind and shot Ms Hasina, wife of Sajan, dead while she was asleep. Sajan Rind and her brother Deedar […]
NAWABSHAH: A man and a woman were shot dead in the name of honour in a village near Qazi Ahmed on Sunday. According to police, Umeed Ali Zardari killed his aunt Ameena, 34, and a villager, Sajjan Zardari, in Badruddin Zardari village. Umeed later surrendered himself to police and said he had killed the two […]
KARACHI: Academic and administrative activities at the Federal Urdu University for Arts, Science and Technology (Fuuast) have been suffering for more than four months because of the absence of a full-time vice chancellor, sources told Dawn. The process initiated for the appointment of a vice chancellor has not been completed yet as the university is […]
WOMEN in Pakistan, in particular, women in upper and lower districts of Sindh and Balochistan, face a variety of legal, socioeconomic and cultural problems. They are deprived of all fundamental human and constitutional rights. There is also a lack of genuine political will to ensure that girls are given equal access to education in the […]
PESHAWAR: Chairman of his own faction of Pakistan People’s Party Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao has urged the government and non-governmental organisations to help the women affected by militancy and intolerance. He was talking to a delegation of Aware Girls, an NGO working for women awareness and empowerment, here on Sunday. The delegation was led by […]
KHANASPUR: Tourism Corporation of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in collaboration with private organisers managed to successfully hold National Music Festival in the lush green valley of Khanaspur in Ayubia. The first two days of the three-day festival were marred by alleged threats from extremist groups that the event would be attacked if music was played. One would, […]
ISLAMABAD: Art helps a country earn ‘soft image’. But, unfortunately, for Pakistan that image shrivels this summer as a merciless sun beat down on art galleries across the country. “Extreme temperatures, and sudden changes from cool to hot, however slight, harm artworks inside the galleries. This has been so in the galleries across the country,” […]
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