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Arif Lohar to release brand new album

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LAHORE ‘: Legendary folk singer Arif Lohar, who has been mostly missing from the limelight barring a few Coke Studio appearances, will be releasing a brand new album right after the month of Muharram. The news comes shortly after other veteran Pakistani singers such as Ustad Hamid Ali Khan and Shabnum Majeed released respective albums as well, thereby reviving […]


No probe started in attack on senior journalist

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ISLAMABAD: In continuation to ongoing attacks and harassment of critical media persons, now senior journalist Matiullah Jan has been attacked on way to home along with his family in the Bhara Kahu area of the federal capital. Matiullah, one of the leading journalists, was heading home along with his two sons (18 years and 13 […]


‘Draft bill finalised for pre-marriage thalassaemia test’

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LAHORE: The process of legislation on compulsory pre-marriage blood screening of couples for thalassaemia has started. The Punjab Thalassaemia Prevention and Treatment Programme (PTPP) has finalised a draft bill for the purpose with the collaboration of lawmakers, said Minister for Specialised Healthcare and Medical Education Khwaja Salman Rafiq while presiding over a meeting to review […]


Dying forests

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IT was a fitting opening for a distressing piece of writing: death on a large scale, but not of the sort that Pakistan has come to associate with the unfortunate land of Balochistan. The report, published in this newspaper on Tuesday, chronicles how the Pinus halepensis species, otherwise known as the Quetta pine tree, is […]


‘Govt taking steps for child protection’

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Karachi – Adviser to Sindh Chief Minister on Social Welfare Shamim Mumtaz has said that the Sindh government is taking concrete steps for the welfare and protection of children as per international conventions, adding that Sindh is at the forefront in legislating on restraining child marriages, violence and child abuse, using children for drug trafficking […]