* Agree to promote mutual understanding, avoid confrontation KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain have agreed that mutual understanding and dignity towards each other should be promoted instead of resorting to confrontation. Zardari and Hussain met at a hotel in London on Friday evening. Detailed discussions […]
KARACHI: The cinema industry has witnessed a recent boom and investors are continuously on the lookout for good spots. The government has also reduced the entertainment tax and relaxed the ban on screening Indian movies. With many small theatres owned by private firms cropping up, the trend has not escaped the eyes of certain official […]
KARACHI: Despite the insistence of those in this country who lambast the youth by telling them that “this is not our culture, this is Hindu culture”, culture is not static nor is it authentic, says art critic Nilofer Farrukh. Culture, according to Farrukh, is a transformation and is a force for change. She was the […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf faced inquiry proceedings vis-à-vis the rental power plants (RPP) case at the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for three hours before taking oath as the prime minister, revealed NAB Chairman Fasih Bokhari. Prime Minister Ashraf’s name has been forwarded to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to be placed on the […]
Delhi-based Neelabh Mishra, Editor, Outlook Hindi, was in Pakistan recently, along with his friend Kavita Srivastava, a human rights activist, on the special invitation of the family of Dr Khalil Chishti, the 80-year-old Pakistani virologist who had been released from a jail in Ajmer, India, having served a life sentence. Mishra took time out to […]
Karachi: Writers, poets and artists belonging to Sindh called upon the state on Saturday to provide opportunities for all national languages and cultures to grow freely and also provide them protection against non-state actors. “The identity of different groups in Pakistan on the basis of their languages, cultures and traditional values is no less than […]
KARACHI: Freedom of speech in our society is only associated with the press and the embargos on writers and poets are seldom part of the discussions on human rights. This was the generic opinion of the speakers at Sindh Writers/Artists Convention, organised by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan to discuss the right to freedom […]
BAHAWALPUR: The ongoing Young Doctors Association (YDA) strike in Punjab took a turn for the worse on Saturday when an Express News team reporting on the condition of the patients at the Sheikh Zayed Hospital’s emergency department in Rahim Yar Khan was assaulted by the doctors. Several cameramen and journalists were wounded. On the 13th […]
The News on Sunday: How do you view the current term of the elected government vis-à-vis the challenges it has faced? Dr Mohammad Waseem: For me, the current political experiment is not democracy; at best, it’s a sharing of power between the civil and the military players. It has political legitimacy but the policy is […]
Like any other human being, I am prone to many weaknesses. On the canvas of public discourse in Pakistan, there are big names. They are big because they regularly write on big issues like politics, security, terrorism, foreign affairs, diplomacy etc. While doing it, they usually ignore the small things; small things that make such […]
LAHORE: Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf made it unequivocally clear on Saturday that come the next Supreme Court hearing, the government’s stance on not writing a letter to the Swiss authorities will remain unchanged, adding that the “PPP leaders and workers would not let their first class president capitulate before a third class Swiss magistrate, […]
KARACHI: Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon has said that dues of advertisements would be paid to newspapers in the coming financial year starting from July. He stated this while chairing a meeting of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) here on Saturday. Sharjeel said that a committee would be formed that will look into the […]
KHANPUR: An acid victim woman succumbed to her injuries in a hospital here on Saturday. Her husband Sajjad had thrown acid on Zohra Bibi last month. The accused is already in the police custody and had confessed the crime. The couple had solemnised marriage four years back and had a girl. The News
FAISALABAD: Factory Area police on Saturday foiled an underage marriage attempt and arrested four people, including the girl, at Sohailabad. Those taken into custody by the police have been identified as 11-year-old Kalsoom, her father Sohail, 30-year-old groom Siddique and Nikah Khawan Ghulam Mujtaba. Reports said the police were informed that the marriage of Siddique […]
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