YouTube watchers in Pakistan have now had to endure 100 days in solitude. The video-streaming website, for some unfathomable reason, still remains banned in the country. The original excuse for the ban — that the website was hosting an anti-Islam video — can no longer be the justification given that few even remember anything about […]
By: Mahrukh Abbasi KARACHI: Pleasant, humble, and passionate — this is how one would describe Indian writer-producer Shuchi Kothari who arrived from New Zealand on December 21 to attend a wedding in Karachi. During her seven-day vacation, Kothari said she loved hearing Tina Sani’s live performance, attending her best friend’s wedding, and the casual gathering […]
QUETTA: Four people, including two women, were killed in a road accident in the Bela area of Balochistan on Thursday. SHO Baila Police Station, Malik Abdul Jabbar Rhonjo said a speeding car coming from Karachi rammed into a truck at the Gador Mor. As a result, two women Bhoji Devi, Insa Devi, Hera Lala and […]
By: Muhammad Ali RELIGION is viewed as divine inspiration and as guidance for the salvation of human beings. When the divine message, which reveals itself through allegorical and symbolic language, is understood and practised by people in different contexts with different focuses, the understanding appears in the form of multiple interpretations. Hence, in the presence […]
By: Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has conceded that no female staff had been appointed for any polling station set up for the by-election held recently for a seat of Balochistan Assembly. Provincial Election Commissioner Sultan Bayadid told Dawn that there was no `women-only’ polling stations, but claimed that separate […]
By: Sadia Khan AT the recent South Asia Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium in Dhaka, 120 women participants from 11 countries came together to create cross-border linkages between women entrepreneurs and leaders in South Asia. After two days of deliberations on the challenges and opportunities for women entrepreneurs in governance, technology and trade, delegates from different countries […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: Gardens primarily symbolise two things: a personal space where one can find solace and can be at ease in feeling submissive; and the creation whose creator sits somewhere invisible to the naked eye and allows things to bloom or shrivel. Over the years artists and writers have used the garden metaphor […]
KARACHI: The difficulty with painting intangible things, such as the soul, is that it requires a certain high degree of imaginativeness to make the viewer feel as if the subject has a tactile quality to it. This is where the line between the tangible, the known and the undiscovered and the unknown lose its blurriness […]
FAISALABAD: Islam provides a role model and ideal rules to ensure the rights of minorities that needs to be implemented in letter and spirits with the promoting of interfaith harmony in the society. This was stated by GCUF Vice Chancellor Dr Zakir Hussian while addressing a function arranged by CSC in connection with the Christmas. […]
What makes a drama last a lifetime in our memories? Is it stories that reflect our own lives or the ones which allow us to step into a whole new world through a looking glass? The very best ones make us love the characters, argue their dilemmas and root for their success- no matter how […]
KARACHI: Cellular phone companies are mulling to set up sub-franchise or model outlets to maintain their sales of SIMs cards again under direct supervision of their officials or franchises. Sources in the telecom sector said that cellular phone companies’ proposed different options to Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) in order to resume the SIMs sale at […]
Mobilising women voters could be the chief engine to democratic progress. Simply holding regular elections is not enough to be called a functioning democracy. Establishing a constitutional democracy requires ensuring that no one’s right to vote is suppressed in any way. A new report by the Free and Fair Election Network (Fafen) reveals that voter […]
BAHALWALPUR: A man and his wife, who say they have received death threats from the woman’ family over their free will marriage, have requested the police to protect them. Noor Muhammad and Tahira Noor, residents of Khanqah Sharif in Rangpur, held a press conference at the Bahawalpur Press Club on Wednesday. Muhammad said their families […]
By: Kiran Shahid From her debut performance in Burns Road ki Nilofer to her most recent one as Momo in Bulbulay, Hina Dilpazir has gained unprecedented success and has left her imprints on the small screen. Her work, however, knows no bounds as she has done some theatre in her career as well, with one […]
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