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Daily Archives: May 20, 2013

Photo journalist to participate in exhibition

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KARACHI: Jahangir Khan will represent Pakistan Association of Photo Journalists in the “2013 World Photographers Focusing on Beijing,” an international photographic event sponsored by the Information Office of the Beijing Municipality. Exhibition to be held from May 20-30, has been organised by Beijing Foreign Cultural Exchange Centre (BCEC) and Beijing This Month Publications (BTMP). “World […]


Google hardly affected: YouTube blockade

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EIGHT months and counting: the government that imposed the ban is gone, a new one has been elected and there have been several appeals. Yet, there is no sign on the horizon of the blockade on YouTube being overturned. The only information to come out on this front recently is that apropos of a legal […]


First Pakistani woman scales Mount Everest

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ISLAMABAD: The news about the first Pakistani woman summiting Mount Everest on Sunday morning spread like a wildfire. Text messages congratulating every Pakistani started doing the rounds only half an hour after Samina Baig reached the top of the highest peak in the world at around 7:30am. And by the afternoon, almost everyone was updating […]


Woman’s suicide turns out to be honour killing

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ISLAMABAD: Last week, the capital police were informed that a 19-year-old woman had committed suicide in the Muslim Colony locality near Bari Imam Shrine. The police arrived at the spot and found the circumstantial evidence suspicious. So, they got an autopsy conducted on the body and also gathered information from the neighbours of the deceased. […]


MQM workers manhandle their leaders, journalists

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KARACHI: Charged workers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) roughed up members of the coordination committee, some lawmakers-elect as well as some journalists during a telephonic address by party chief Altaf Hussain from London in the small hours of Sunday. With the media barred from covering the hooliganism, witnesses said certain MQM leaders had been […]


Aapki Sonia to hit stage next month

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KARACHI: A theatre play ‘Aapki Sonia’ by renowned Indian playwright Javed Siddiqui will be performed from June 14 at Southend Club, announced its director Aly Khan while speaking at a press conference on Friday. Aly Khan, who can these days be seen in quite a few TV plays, started his speech by telling the media […]