KARACHI: A two-day exhibition of handcrafted silver jewellery and tapestry exhibition by Iram Zia opens at the Canvas Gallery at 11am on Friday. The show titled ‘Tradition of the new’ will remain open till Aug 11, daily from 11am to 5pm Dawn
KARACHI: “If a girl can move around a charpoy, she is old and strong enough for marriage” is an oft-heard sentence in the rural areas of Sindh, justifying early marriages, said a participant in a consultative meeting on early marriages organized by the Adolescent Girls Empowerment. Following the sessions with the social sector and religious […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Supreme Court indicted property tycoon Malik Riaz with contempt of court chrages on Thursday, five days after the court struck down the recent Contempt of Court Act 2012, DawnNews reported. A three-member bench of the court comprising Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan, Justice Ejaz Afzal and Justice Athar Saeed resumed hearing the case against […]
ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Nayyar Hussain Bukhari has nominated six senators to form a commission for establishment of new provinces in Punjab. According to details, two names from Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), and one name each from Awami National Party (ANP), Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI), Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) have been sent […]
PESHAWAR: A local court on Thursday dismissed pre-arrest bail application of a man charged with cutting hair of his wife and trying to burn her with acid over a domestic dispute. Following the court orders the accused, Ishaq Khan, was arrested from the courtroom by local police. The court presided over by additional district and […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court was informed on Thursday that the current six to eight hours of daily loadshedding could increase by another three hours and 20 minutes if plants of independent power producers (IPPs) shut down because of non-payment of arrears by the government. Advocate Khalid Anwar, representing Atlas Power Limited, told a three-judge bench […]
By: Khurram Husain LONG the darlings of the new economy, mobile phone companies today find themselves caught in the taxman’s noose. Over the past 5 years, the telecoms have quietly carried on their booming business untouched by the myriad dysfunctions, such as the circular debt or rising non-performing loans, that set in on Pakistan’s business […]
READING for pleasure — as opposed to finding out about the latest crisis of governance or administration — is far from the average Pakistani’s priority. That in the average marketplace a bookstore — if it is there at all — will be thronged with the most customers is highly unlikely. Yet people who read for […]
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