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Daily Archives: September 28, 2017

Finding the real Ali Zafar – II

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The singer-songwriter and movie star talks to Instep about social media, the emergence of his brother Danyal Zafar and his penchant for writing poetry.  Ali Zafar is having an eventful year. Currently in the news for rightly supporting Pakistan’s most popular female star – who is in the eye of a storm for appearing in […]


Spare the young ones

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EVER SINCE the law-enforcement agencies (LEAs) stumbled upon the fact that high-grade universities are also producing terrorists, something that the underprivileged citizens have known for years, they have been in a state of panic and are prescribing cures that cause much apprehension in well-informed circles. The first reaction of the LEAs to the discovery that […]


4,312 chikungunya cases reported in Sindh alone: health deptt reported

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KARACHI: Sindh during the current year has registered 4,312 cases of Chikungunya against 405 in 2016, said a report issued by provincial health department. The officials concerned as well as seasoned professionals talking to APP attributed the situation to absolute disregard for adequate and safe disposal of garbage and rampant negligence towards sewerage and sanitation. […]


City Council demands Rs500bn package for Karachi uplift

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KARACHI: The city council on Wednesday passed a resolution demanding that the Sindh and federal governments immediately sanction at least Rs500 billion as a joint package for Karachi’s development. “Karachi is a huge metropolis. It badly needs to rectify its dilapidated infrastructure [so that] people of the sixth most populated city of the world can […]