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Daily Archives: November 14, 2017

Senior journalist Habibur Rahman passes away

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PESHAWAR: Senior journalist Habibur Rahman breathed his last after prolonged illness here on Monday. He was 77. The funeral prayer will be offered at the University of Peshawar Hockey Ground today (Tuesday) at 9.30 am. His body will be shifted to Rawalpindi where his funeral prayer will be offered at Liaqat Bagh at 3pm. He […]


TV channels’ nightmarish Urdu pronunciation and an Urdu pronouncing dictionary

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URDU pronunciation of some Pakistani TV channels is giving nightmares to many, though the owners and anchors of those channels may not even be aware how mercilessly they have been slaughtering our national language. Aside from intermingling English words and phrases with their Urdu conversation, these innocent anchors mispronounce many Urdu words, sometime rendering the […]


Environmental emergency

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Lahore, the famed city of gardens, has been choking under a veil of hazardous haze for the past few days and at its source lies an unsustainable growth model based on an endless expansion of roads and traffic, rising concrete jungles, open burning of waste and crop residues, unregulated industrialisation, merciless slashing of trees and […]


Inculcating love for music among the young

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The city’s antique but historic Khaliqdina Hall was host to a highly constructive programme for children on Monday morning with the noted sitar maestro, Ustad Ashraf Sharif Khan, imparting a lesson to the children in classical sub-continental music and entertaining them to various classical tunes which were very well received by the children. There were […]