International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) urged for placing forests under local control to increase incomes and sustainability. In its report ‘Investing in locally controlled forestry’, IUCN observed that to increase the incomes of many of the billion forest-dependent people world-wide the current model for investment in forests must be turned on its head. […]
QUETTA: A Khuzdar journalist’s son who was injured in a shooting incident on Thursday, died in a local hospital on Friday. Two men on a motorbike had opened fire on a car in Khuzdar on Thursday, killing Siraj Ahmed and injuring Manzoor Ahmed, both sons of Nadeem Gurganari, president of the Khuzdar Press Club. On […]
By: Mohammad Hussain Khan HYDERABAD: A man and a woman who tied the knot of their free will and had been missing since August are said to have been murdered allegedly by the girl’s father and brother along with their accomplices. Police have arrested one of the accused, Haji Detho, who led police to an […]
By: Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD: As the Election Commission gears up to expand the scope of its ‘voter awareness campaign’, the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) is working on an aggressive plan to provide all citizens with computerised national identity cards before the upcoming general election. Talking to Dawn, Nadra chairman Tariq Malik said […]
By: Mubarak Zeb Khan ISLAMABAD: The television industry has grown by leaps and bounds over the past few years but few of the entertainment stars are willing to share their good luck with the state by paying up the due tax. This is evident from investigations carried out by the Federal Board of Revenue into […]
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Friday that cellphone service would remain suspended from 6am to 10am on the first day of Eid (Saturday) in 13 selected places. Talking to reporters, the minister said the decision to keep the service suspended had been taken in the light of credible information from intelligence agencies and […]
BIRMINGHAM: The father of Malala Yousufzai said on Friday she would “rise again” to pursue her dreams. Ziauddin Yousufzai and other family members arrived in Britain on Thursday to help her recovery. “They wanted to kill her. But she fell temporarily. She will rise again. She will stand again,” he told reporters, his voice breaking […]
KARACHI: General Secretary PPP Sindh Taj Haider, President PPP Karachi Division MNA Qadir Patel and others have strongly condemned the murder of reporter of an Urdu daily, Ali Raza. In a joint statement issued on Thursday, the PPP leader has called for immediate arrest of the culprits. They called upon the law enforcers to take […]
KARACHI: A senior journalist was looted by mugger in Pak Colony area on Thursday evening. Syed Iqbal Hussain, Associate Editor Pakistan Press International (PPI) Economic Outlook department, was going home when his car was intercepted by a mugger near Bismillah Hotel. He was deprived of his CNIC, press card, driving license, vehicle documents, some other […]
By: SANIA ZEHRA Recently, my teacher instructed me to pay more attention to the latest happenings in the country, telling me to be more aware of what is in the news and what is making headlines. For this very reason, I started watching the news channels with more interest than I had before. During my […]
By: Syed Kamran Hashmi To an extent, our repeated and consistent capitulation to the Taliban’s intolerance has actually become our real tragedy that is not limited to the assault on a young girl. After a brief moment of solidarity and a genuine outrage on Malala’s shooting incident, Pakistanis have once again succumbed to conspiracy theories, […]
By: Rafay Mahmood KARACHI: As the king of Bollywood romance, Yash Chopra departed from the world earlier this week; his legacy came to an end with his last and final project, Shahrukh Khan and Katrina Kaif starrer Jab Tak Hai Jaan, which is all set for a November 13 release worldwide. But while the film-makers […]
By: Mohammad Zafar QUETTA: Gunmen attacked the two sons of a journalist in the Khuzdar district on Thursday, killing one of them and critically injuring the other, police officials said. ASI Abdul Raheem told The Express Tribune that the two sons of Khuzdar Press Club president Allah Bakhsh, better known as Nadeem Gurgnari, were attacked […]
By: Sehrish Ali ISLAMABAD: From pink ball gowns to safari suits, the Pakistan Institute of Fashion and Design thesis display had just about all. The graduating class of fashion design, textile design, jewellery and gemmological sciences and furniture design and manufacturing put their best foot forward at the Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) […]
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