by Shoaib-ur-Rehman Siddiqui KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), chief Altaf Hussain has expressed his deep concerns on the recovery of explosive material from beneath the car of senior journalist and anchor person of a private television challen Hamid Mir. In a statement issued by the MQM here on Monday, he said that the wicked act […]
By Justice ® RafiqTarrar I belong to the same land where Baba-i-Sahafat Maulana Zafar Ali Khan was born, spent his childhood and sleeping in his eternal abode after accomplishing his national responsibilities amidst a long but intrepid struggle spanning over more than five decades. Today fifty five year after his death most of his contemporaries […]
SHIKARPUR/SUKKUR: An illegal tribal court (jirga) on Sunday ordered a man to give in marriage his two minor sisters and a minor niece to the nephews of his rival, a close relative, in order a settle a case of enmity over illicit relations. The losing side was also asked to pay a fine of Rs200,000 […]
LAHORE: King Edward Medical University Syndicate on Monday approved the varsity management’s decision to accommodate female students in the boys’ hostel located on McLoad Road. Presided over by KEMU pro-vice chancellor Prof Dr Asad Aslam, the Syndicate meeting was attended by University of Engineering and Technology (UET) VC, the health special secretary, Higher Education Commission […]
COLUMNISTS are a peculiar breed of writers and perhaps no one assumed the persona of a columnist as well as Ardeshir Cowasjee. His age, pedigree, wealth and chutzpah gave him a vantage point that few could ever hope for. But what made Mr Cowasjee such a beloved columnist for many readers was the mixture of […]
Bina Shah A RECENT newspaper article casts light on a great problem women face in Sindh: the fact that traditional culture discourages women from entering the field of politics. In ‘Female Politicians? Not on Our Watch, say Sardars’, Asad Pitafi examines the political culture in Ghotki, upper Sindh, and finds that despite there being a […]
By Asad Kharal LAHORE: A family of farmers in Punjab had to pay a heavy price upon asking for their wages – five of their teenage girls were allegedly gang raped by eight local landlords in Kitro, Sheikhupura district. According to B*, a resident of Noon village, his daughter and nieces – all between 14 […]
By Tazeen Javed Out of the four Pakistanis who made it to Foreign Policy’s influential Global Thinker’s List for 2012, three are women. Congratulations to those who made the list but irrespective of what Foreign Policy’s selection criteria for the list is (a 15-year-old student’s intellectual contribution to the society cannot be measured with that […]
‘For standing up to the Taliban, and everything they represent’ made Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old child activist from Swat Valley, shine on the number 6 spot of the Top 100 Global Thinkers list. The list was released by Foreign Policy magazine on Monday, November 26. This year, Foreign Policy honoured people who spoke for freedom […]
LAHORE: Nawaz Sharif, president of his own faction of the Pakistan Muslim League, has said that Asif Zardari is an elected president and he would have no problem in working with President Zardari if elected as the country’s premier. Talking to a private TV channel, the PML-N president said, “We have good relations with Baloch […]
Shakeel Anjum ISLAMABAD: Geo’s Executive Editor and anchorperson of popular Geo TV talk-show ‘Capital Talk,’ Hamid Mir, narrowly escaped a terrorist attempt on Monday when a bomb was detected attached beneath his car, which fortunately did not explode. “The explosive device was live and sophisticated carrying half-a-kilogram of explosive powder, enough to blow up a […]
Adiah Afraz Ok here is what I call a major LOL sequence of events. And if you don’t know what LOL is then you probably won’t get the joke either. But here it goes anyway. PTA, short for Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (not Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf, mind you), has asked all cell phone companies in the country […]
Saher Baloch Karachi: Memories of my first memorable meeting with Ardeshir Cowasjee came flooding back to me as soon as I learnt of his death on Saturday. The encounter took place in August 2009 courtesy a colleague at Newsline magazine, where I worked at the time. She had come back to Pakistan from the USA […]
SUKKUR: SSP Shikarpur has taken notice of a Jirga to decide a case of Karo Kari. A Jirga was held by tribal elites Abdul Wahab and Dhani Parto Jatoi in Chuk Town of Shikarpur. The Jirga conductors forced alleged Karo Amanullah Jatoi to hand over his two small sisters, a small niece and pay a […]
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