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PIFD students’ exhibition explores social, cultural aspects

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LAHORE: A fashion design exhibition titled Design and Research – an Inquiry into Fashion as Space, Body and Habits based on various social, cultural and individual dimensions of students opened at the Pakistan Institute of Fashion and Design (PIFD) on Friday. The exhibition was attended by a good number of fashion fanciers where 15 students […]


Counting the environmental cost of tourism in Chitral

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CHITRAL: There is a pressing need to balance the need to maintain natural habitat while expanding tourism in Chitral. Shandur polo ground in Chitral sets the stage for a fierce match where spectators flock to the region to witness the smell of heat, blood and sweat each July. However, while the three-day festival provides a […]


30,000 smartphones for BISP beneficiaries

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ISLAMABAD – Board of universal Service Fund has decided to provide 30,000 Smartphones with Rs250 balance per month to the beneficiaries to the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP). According to officials the proposal was discussed and agreed in the USF Company 46th Board of Directors meeting. The participants deliberated on latest reports, which placed Pakistan […]


Man arrested for trying to abduct small girl in Karachi

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KARACHI: A man was caught red-handed for trying to kidnap a three-year-old girl in a slum area of Gulshan-i-Iqbal on Friday, police said. They added that Haroon attempted to kidnap Sonia who was sleeping with her mother in a shanty in Gulshan-i-Iqbal’s block 5. But as her mother woke up and raised hue and cry, […]