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6TH Islamabad literature festival scheduled for September

Islamabad-Every year, the capital gets its much-needed intellectual and cultural treat in the form of the annual Islamabad Literature Festival. Carrying on this legacy for the 6th time, the theme of this year’s ILF is ‘The Focus is Tomorrow: Reflecting on the Past’. The festival will take place on 27, 28, and 29 September 2019 […]


Cable operators told to remove cable TV apparatus from poles in Karachi

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KARACHI: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has asked all cable TV operators to remove cable boosters from electric poles of K-Electric. Sources in the power utility told Dawn that a letter had been sent to Pemra informing it that the KE had received several complaints regarding current in electric poles “due to cables […]


Two-day CKF brings out Karachi’s artistes

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KARACHI: Given that it was the brainchild of Sabeen Mahmud, it was befitting that this year’s Creative Karachi Festival (CKF) had the tagline, “To Sabeen, with love.” Through the continuation of projects like the CKF, it is clear that that team at The Second Floor (T2F) is committed towards preserving Mahmud’s legacy and carrying forward […]


‘Deadly’ heatwave threat looms over South Asia

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ISLAMABAD: South Asia could be hit with deadly heatwaves by the end of this century that humans wouldn’t survive in, research has found. This was revealed in findings, based on detailed computer simulations using the best available global circulation models, were published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researcher Elfatih Eltahir in the journal “Science […]