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Condolence reference for Nizami

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LAHORE: A condolence reference in commemoration of late Dr Majid Nizami was held at the Aiwan-i-Karkunan-i-Tehreek-i-Pakistan, which was jointly organised by the Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust women’s wing and the Pakistan Movement Workers Trust. Those who spoke on the occasion included Justice (r) Nasira Javid Iqbal, Begum Mehnaz Rafi, Dr Parveen Khan, Begum Hamid Rana, Prof Shehnaz […]


Allama Iqbal’s travel account retold

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BASHEER Ahmed Dar (1908-1979), a researcher and expert on Iqbal, has drawn an interesting conclusion about the political struggle of the Muslims of the subcontinent and their three leaders — Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Allama Iqbal and Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah. He says that this is a strange coincidence that the political lives and the […]


President urges media to continue its role against terrorism, extremism

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BHURBAN: President Mamnoon Hussain on Sunday urged media to continue its responsibility for dealing effectively with terrorism and extremism besides promoting peace ventures in the region. Addressing the participants of a conference titled ‘Media and Extremist Narrative’ held under the auspices of South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) here, he cautioned the media to remain […]


‘Treasure’ hunt: Audio recordings of Jinnah’s Aug 11 speech still missing

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ISLAMABAD: “If you will work in cooperation, forgetting the past, burying the hatchet, you are bound to succeed. We should begin to work in that spirit and in time all these angularities of the majority and minority communities […] the Pathans, Punjabis, Shias, Sunnis and […] the Brahmins, Vashnavas, Khatris, also Bengalis, Madrasis, will vanish.” […]


Three acquitted in Mazar rape case for ‘want of evidence’

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Ishaq Tanoli KARACHI: A sessions court on Saturday acquitted three men in a case pertaining to the gang rape of a young woman on the premises of the Mazar-e-Quaid for want of evidence. The then assistant manager security of the mausoleum, an accountant and a personal assistant to the resident engineer of the Quaid-i-Azam Management […]