TANDO MUHAMMAD KHAN: The official website of the district government, developed and updated by its information-technology cell, is not up-to-date for the last one year and lacks important information about Contingency Plan 2012, Rain Emergency Cell, Revenue, Agricultural Extension, Police, Excise, Forest, Zakat, Ushr Social Welfare and Women’s Development departments etc. The website, which is […]
RAWALPINDI: ‘The Arena’ 3D Movie Theatre of Bahria Town has emerged as a complete recreational solution of summer & load shedding ridden Isloo-ites. ‘The Arena’ is a thorough depiction of the sophisticated construction and delicate amenities which are the signature style of all Bahria Town constructed projects. The contemporary 3D technology of ‘The Arena’ which […]
LAHORE – A 35-year-old man stormed into his sister’s house situated in the Baghbanpura area on Wednesday afternoon, slaughtered her two minor daughters, wounded another and fled away, police and local residents said. Police investigators said the killer has been arrested but the motive behind the gruesome killings were yet to be ascertained until late […]
Sir: According to a report in The Times of India, the border security forces of Pakistan and India, Pakistan Rangers and India’s Border Security Force (BSF), have agreed to have women platoon commanders for the daily flag-lowering ceremony held simultaneously by the two forces at the Attari-Wagah border. The aim is to reduce tension between […]
Karachi: A girls youth hostel would be constructed at the Karachi University Campus. This was stated by the Sindh Minister for Youth Affairs, Syed Faisal Ali Subzwari, here on Wednesday. He said that the 20-room facility would be completed in three months’ time at a cost of Rs. 25.25 million. The project was initiated by […]
SUKKUR: An eight-year-old girl was found with a bullet wound on Tuesday by a man called Mohammad Kamran Jatoi in a house at Empire Road in Larkana. The girl, Kainat, the daughter of Gulab Bhutto, had gone to Kamran’s house to play with his sisters. According to Kamran, the children took out a pistol from […]
LAHORE: The Lahore Museum will publish synopses of the 35,000 or so books in its collection on its website (lahoremuseum.org) by next month and place the entire collection online in years to come, The Express Tribune has learnt. Librarian Ahmad Bashir Bhatti, who proposed the digitising of the museum library 10 years ago, said that […]
LAHORE: I am moved to write this letter because of the recent shocking treatment meted out by the male legislators of the Punjab Assembly to the unfortunate women legislators serving on the reserved seats. Under the present mode of election to the reserved seats for women, before the elections, the male executive members of each […]
ISLAMABAD: The major opposition political parties both inside and outside the parliament have decided not to become part of Defa-e-Pakistan Council’s (DPC) – an alliance of over 40 right-wing political and religious parties -scheduled long march against reopening of Nato supply route on July 8. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) and Pakistan Tehreek-Insaf […]
KARACHI: The Hollywood blockbuster ‘Amazing Spiderman’ is being released in Pakistan (today) Thursday. Atrium, Universe Cineplex in Karachi; Bambino in Hyderabad; Plaza, DHA Cinestar, Sozo World, PAF Cantt and Cinegold in Lahore; Nageena in Faisalabad; Zinco Cinemax in Gujranwala; Rex Multiplex in Multan; and Faisal Cinema in Gujrat will screen this fabulous 3-D film. The […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) is encouraging the development of local content based mobile solutions for farmers in the country. While addressing a workshop titled “What Can Telecommunication Do for Agriculture” on Tuesday, Chairman PTA Dr Mohammad Yaseen said “the PTA is now encouraging the development of local content-based mobile/ICT applications and is willing […]
Karachi: A Pakistani journalist’s entry stood second in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) — Thomson Reuters Environmental Media Award 2012. The News staffer Desiree Francis’s story titled “If NGOs were a political party, we’d vote for them!” was declared first runner-up in the award which received 162 entries from 48 countries and […]
Karachi: Drawing attention to the growing menace of extortion in Karachi, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), in its data released on Wednesday, showed that of the 972 people targeted in the city from January to June, 336 had no political affiliation. “We noticed a sharp spike in the killing of people with no […]
THIS is apropos of your editorial ‘Neglected art’ (July 3). On behalf of the Sadequain Foundation, USA, I second the concerns you have expressed. However, the subject of your editorial is much too grave to be handled gingerly with kid gloves. The problem of neglected art is grave and must be treated with urgency. Granted […]
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