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Mushaira woos poetry buffs

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KARACHI: The season of mushairas in the city is at its peak. After a successful gathering of poets at a school last week, another mushaira at the Mohatta Palace Museum on Saturday had the audience’s undivided attention. Iftikhar Arif, who presided over the programme, was as usual asked to read out his couplets and verses […]


‘Enforced disappearances are a threat to democratic order’

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Even though a democratic order exists in the country and the courts, parliament and other state institutions are functional, the draconian and extrajudicial practice of enforced disappearances still prevails in Pakistan. This was stated by Nasir Mansoor, deputy secretary general of the National Trade Union Federation (NTUF), at a protest rally held in the city […]


Naunehal’s Masood Barkati passes away

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KARACHI: Masood Ahmed Barkati, who edited children’s magazine Hamdard Naunehal for around 65 years, passed away after protracted illness on Sunday. He was 87. His friends and family members said Masood Ahmed Barkati, a prolific writer of children’s literature who wrote 20 books, was ill and died on Sunday evening. He had been editing the […]


Hundreds of civil servants still working as journalists

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KARACHI: Despite the Sindh High Court’s (SHC) orders, more than 500 government employees, especially teachers, are still working as journalists in violation of the Sindh Civil Servant (Conduct) Rules, 2008. According to official records available with The Express Tribune, these teachers, assistant professors, professors, principals of various colleges and even doctors and engineers are working […]