LAHORE: A 23-year-old girl was stabbed to death during a scuffle among her three male friends in the Garden Town police area late on Friday. The deceased was identified as Noorul Sabah a resident of Joray Pull. After doing her BA (Honours) from the Forman Christian College University, Sabah was working as a marketing employee […]
By: Ahtesham Azhar KARACHI: A condolence reference for late Daily Times reporter Haris Tayyab was arranged by his friends and Karachi Union of Journalists (Dustoor) at the Karachi Press Club (KPC) here on Saturday. Tayyab passed away on Tuesday after battling neurological complications developed as the result of an accident that took place a couple […]
QUETTA: A man shot dead his sister and another man on the pretext of illicit relations in Dhadar area of Bolan District on Saturday. According to a Balochistan Levies official, Abdul Fateh sprayed his sister and another man Barkat Ali with bullets accusing them having illicit relations. Abdul Fateh escaped from the scene after committing […]
By: Usman Liaquat KARACHI: Just had a bitter break-up? Scramble to protect your accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Gmail. According to Sabbah Haji, an avid writer and director of Haji Public School, there are many whose private information on social networking sites has been misused by spiteful exes. This was just one of the many […]
KARACHI: A pictorial representation of the poetic narrative of iconic Urdu poets like Mirza Ghalib, Ameer Khusro and Allama Iqbal was launched at the Majmua Art Gallery on Thursday. The latest exhibition of Zebun Zuby’s paintings, dedicated to the rich world of Urdu poetry, will continue till July 20. The opening attracted a diverse crowd […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf inaugurated on Saturday the Khan Khwar hydropower project in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Bisham district. In his address at the ceremony, the premier said that upon its completion the project would add 72MW to the national grid. “(Power) generation through hydropower projects is our main focus in order to produce low-cost, environment-friendly […]
By: Owais Jafri MULTAN: The police on Saturday registered an FIR at the Kacha Khu police station against a man for burying his newborn daughter alive. Chaand Khan admitted to committing the harrowing murder a day after killing his two-day-old daughter for not “liking her looks.” The FIR was registered following an application by Muhammad […]
By: Asad Zia JAMRUD: The murder of rights activist Farida Afridi in Khyber Agency has driven the already dwindling number of female social workers in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) towards more uncertainty. Afridi, who was a founding member of the Society for Appraisal and Women Empowerment in Rural Areas (SAWERA), was shot dead […]
By: Yousuf Saifuddin KARACHI: The idea of promoting the rights of the labour class through music at a top tier five-star hotel hosting a social media ‘mela’ might come across as an oxymoron, but Dr Taimur Rahman of Laal the band is quick to refute that notion in the same breath by adding that today’s […]
Karachi: The government is determined to develop Thar coal so as to bring a socio-economic revolution in Pakistan, said Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah while presiding over the 15th meeting of the Thar Coal and Energy Board at the CM House on Saturday. The growing energy needs of the country could be met […]
By: Sidrah Roghay Karachi: It was only when pictures of flood victims beating up Faisal Kapadia and Awab Ali circulated on the social media that a tremendous inflow of funds entered their bank accounts. The money flew in from all over the world. “In our first year [2011], we managed to raise $317,000, the tipping […]
Karachi: Two Indian writers talked about their struggle with the pen, which they called “a craft and a tool”. In a session titled; the art of storytelling, Jugal Mody author of a book, Joke, and Annie Zaidi, a journalist, poet, playwright and author of two books discussed their experiences, as Mohsin Siddiqui, moderated the event. […]
ISLAMABAD: The centre and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have locked horns over the ownership of a collection of antiquities presumably dating from the ancient Gandhara civilization that was confiscated by the Karachi police a week back. On July 6, the police had intercepted a container full of items which included stucco and stone sculptures of Buddha and […]
NEW DELHI: India Saturday assured Pakistan that it would consider a proposal to lift a ban on Pakistani television channels from airing in the country. This development came after Pakistan Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani’s strong pitch last week suggesting that India permit the transmission of not just the Pakistani state-run channel, but private channels […]
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