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Daily Archives: June 8, 2017

Guitarist Asad Ahmed pens emotional tribute to ‘master’ Aamir Zaki

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KARACHI : Nearly a week has passed since Aamir Zaki breathed his last but the wound remains as fresh as it was last Friday. Much of Pakistan is still reeling from the loss of arguably the greatest musician it ever saw, with tributes pouring in from ardent fans and past colleagues, alike. The latest to […]


Lawyers ‘thrash’ two reporters in Karachi for ‘filming them searching a woman’

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KARACHI: A group of lawyers allegedly thrashed two reporters at the City Courts on Tuesday for “filming them while they were inappropriately searching a woman”. Junaid Shah and Waqas Aurangzeb, both reporters affiliated with private TV news channels, were beaten up and locked up for around half an hour inside the City Courts premises. Shah […]


Protest against minority girl’s ‘abduction’

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MIRPURKHAS: Hundreds of people belonging to minority Meghwar community held a demonstration outside the Mirpurkhas Press Club on Wednesday in protest against police’s failure to nab suspects involved in the abduction of Shrimati Beena from Degan Bhurgari town, 36km from here. Shiyam Lal Meghwar, Ms Beena’s father, and his relatives Mohan, Dharmo and Ramchand who […]


Global tech start-up competition attracts entrepreneurs

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KARACHI: Successful entrepreneurs, mostly women, turned up on Wednesday to share their inspiring stories and a number of business ideas at the orientation session of the global start-up competition She Loves Tech, organised by Circle Pakistan at NED University. Circle NED, the student chapter of Circle, a social enterprise focused on women’s economic inclusion and […]


Digital media be used to project Pak soft image, says Marriyum

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ISLAMABAD – Marriyum Aurangzeb, Minister of State for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage, has stressed the need for an effective use of digital media to promote and project Pakistan’s narrative and image as soft, moderate and democratic country at the global level. She was chairing a high level meeting here on Wednesday. In this regard, […]