20 feared dead in India landslide
GUWAHATI: Rescuers were searching Sunday for 20 villagers feared killed in a landslide in remote northeast India, as the death toll from recent floods elsewhere in the country topped 100, officials......
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SportErvine blasts Zimbabwe to 7-wicket win over New Zealand in 1st ODI
HARARE: Craig Ervine blasted Zimbabwe to a seven-wicket win over New Zealand in the first one-day international on Sunday.His 130 not out took the host to its target of 304 with an over to spare for......
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PakistanNabil Gabol wanted to create disturbances in Lyari, says DIG South
KARACHI: The Karachi-South DIG alleged that former MQM lawmaker Nabil Gabol wanted to create law and order situation in Lyari with the help of gangsters.“Nabil Gabol had asked Ghaffar Zikri, one of......
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PakistanPakistan releases 163 Indian fishermen
KARACHI: Pakistan on Sunday released 163 Indian fishermen held for violating its territorial waters as a goodwill gesture amid tensions over exchange of fire between security forces of both countries......
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PakistanAl Qaeda chief of Balochistan and South Punjab killed in Chaghi: Bugti
QUETTA: Security forces claimed to have killed the al Qaeda chief of Balochistan and South Punjab, Omar Abdul Latif (alias Luqman), in Balochistan's Chaghi district near the Pak-Afghan border on......
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WorldMCA ends Shahrukh Khan's ban from Wankhede stadium
The Mumbai cricket Association has ended Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan's five-year ban from the Wankhede stadium, two years prior to the official deadline, according to a report on the......
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PakistanPCB mulling option to host T20 league in Qatar: report
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has approached Qatar to host its own franchise-based T20 league in Doha, in February 2016, according to a report on the ESPNCricinfo website.The PCB had initially......
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PakistanAltaf Hussain's statement tantamount to waging war against Pakistan: Nisar
ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Sunday termed Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain's statement tantamount to waging war against the country.Addressing a......
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WorldAhmad al-Basheer: Iraq's Jon Stewart combats jihadists with laughs
AMMAN: Defying death threats, an Iraqi television comedian is fighting the Islamic State group with biting satire aimed at lifting the aura of fear that is one of the jihadists' strongest weapons.Two......
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WorldHong Kong bra protest after woman jailed for 'breast assault'
HONG KONG: Dozens of activists including men wearing bras staged a protest in Hong Kong on Sunday after a woman was sentenced to three-and-a-half months' jail for assaulting a police officer with her......
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WorldAfghan Taliban issues statement quoting 'dead' Jalaluddin Haqqani
KABUL: The Afghan Taliban has issued a written statement purportedly quoting Jalaluddin Haqqani, the leader of the Haqqani insurgent group, in an effort to quell rumours of his death.The statement,......
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PakistanPakistan's Japanese-dominated car market poised for new entrants
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's car market has been dominated by Japanese automakers for decades, but a mini-economic revival looks set to attract new players from Europe and Korea into the mix.Despite heavy......
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MagazinesREVIEW: A Journey of Resilience and Success by Marjorie Husain
Reviewed by Quddus MirzaHISTORY is like a work of fiction in a sense, because like a novel or short story it may be based upon reality, but bears the voice of an individual (or group) who creates it.......
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MagazinesREVIEW: Rasheed Araeen: Homecoming (ART) Edited by Amra Ali
RASHEED Araeen has the distinction of being an artist representative of one of the most complex and illusive aspects of Pakistan’s art history, a fact recognised by Amra Ali, editor of Rasheed......
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MagazinesREVIEW: Imran Mir Edited by Nighat Mir and Nafisa Rizvi
Reviewed by Saamia AhmedAS a practitioner and educator swimming in the realm of the creative arts, I see Imran Mir’s biographical publication as a rather large and well-thought-out splash in the......
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MagazinesREVIEW: The Eye Still Seeks edited by Salima Hashmi
THE Eye Still Seeks: Pakistani Contemporary Art, edited by Salima Hashmi and published by Penguin Books India, aims to bring together a wide selection of work produced over the course of the last 20......
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MagazinesCOVER: The Art of the Matter
PAKISTANI art publications are claiming their space on coffee tables, bookshelves, and in stores, e-shops and libraries. This new surge is in tandem with the changing face of Pakistani art and goes......
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PakistanThe forgotten flippant
The mid and late 19th century was a highly charged period in India. The centuries-old Muslim Empire in the region had collapsed and the British were consolidating their colonial rule over a vast......
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Archive"Reviews don’t matter, good work does”
“I’ve never before spent so much time scrutinising scripts,” admits actor Imran Abbas. “There’s more competition now than ever before and everything one does can get shot down. I have to decide very......
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ArchiveSize does matter
I’ll never squash another insect again, not after watching Marvel’s latest film Ant-Man, which happens to be a superhero film unlike any that Marvel Studios has produced in recent memory. How unique......
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ArchiveVidya Chaplin, sorry Balan
Here is as intriguing a nugget of info as the actress Vidya Balan herself is. She never ceases to amaze you and therefore is these days in the news for assuming the role of the legendary Charlie......
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ArchiveShobhaa De and Bajrangi Bhaijaan
The cat is back in form. Indian socialite and writer Shohbaa De has put a dampener on the recent Salman Khan box-office smasher Bajrangi Bhaijaan by saying that the film is an attempt at making Sallu......
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ArchiveBushra Ansari’s possessiveness
After a quiet couple of years, veteran television artist Bushra Ansari is back where she belongs. She can nowadays be seen on a private channel in a challenging role of a possessive mother in a drama......
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ArchiveRanbir and Katrina: ring bling
This time it seems that this old piece of gossip has finally taken a factual turn. The pretty-as-a-picture Katrina Kapoor and the man who needs a successful film this year Ranbir Kapoor are......
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ArchiveFive reasons to watch Bajrangi Bhaijaan
In Bajrangi Bhaijan, Salman Khan amazes even himself, but his performance isn’t the only reason you should watch the film. There are others in his team who deserve credit for making the movie the......
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ArchiveIn bed with the sun
The people of Miskeen and Musharraf colonies in Islamabad’s G-8/4 area waste nothing. Not even a charpoy frame.“I must show it to you, we have a solar panel installed on the roof,” says young Abdul......
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ArchiveConvert a document
As upgraded software are coming up every few years, most of us keep up-to-date with the recent trends by upgrading our desktop PCs or laptops. For most users, a laptop or an old desktop with an old......
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ArchiveWhen it’s too low, too often
Everyone seems to be worried about high blood pressure and on slightest indication take measures to keep their blood pressure in check. We all know that high blood pressure is dangerous as is can not......
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ArchivePlanning events
About two weeks back I received a beautifully packed chocolate bar with an invitation inside for a dinner party. The invitation was from a dear friend who is famous for throwing parties. Averse to......
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ArchiveComing together with Bohra cuisine
Ever since I can recall, my school and university friends were sure to comment on two things — one, my unique hijab i.e. the ‘rida’; second, a request to invite them to my home to partake a meal in......
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ArchiveAdvice: Calm before the storm
Dear Auntie, I am 22 and got engaged this year. My engagement was arranged by our families and my fiancé is a very nice person who loves me. I am very happy with him. But there is one problem. He is......
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ArchivePlant, plant and plant some more
There is much to do to mitigate the disastrous effects of future heatwaves in our cities and — as Pakistan currently ranks number eight in countries to be most affected by ‘Climate change’ — in all......
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ArchiveArtichive: Dora Maar au Chat
Pablo Picasso painted “Dora Maar au Chat” (Dora Maar with Cat) oil on canvas, measuring 50.5 inches × 37.5 inches, in 1941. It is one of the many portraits painted by the artist of Dora Maar who was......
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ArchivePedagogy of the city
‘The only possible relationship to the university today is a criminal one’. — Fred Moten and Stefano Harney Harney, The Undercommons: Fugitive planning and Black Study, 2003In his classic manifesto......
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ArchiveThe Tree School
I believe that schools began with a man under a tree, who did not know he was a teacher, sharing his realisations with others, who did not know they were students. — Louis Kahn, Form and Design,......
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ArchiveDecolonising architecture
If one insists as we do, on colonisation as the frame of reference for understanding the political reality in Palestine, one should naturally accept that decolonisation is necessary. — Architecture......
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ArchivePhoenix rising
Recently, I was reading an article about ‘Phoenix rising from the ashes’ and immediately Pakistan cricket came to mind. As we all know the phoenix is a mythical bird with flaming and fiery plumage.......
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ArchiveThe ticket: The right to be Wrong
Some believe the success of Wrong No. came as a fluke whereas others feel that the film isn’t worth one’s money. The truth is that despite some crappy jokes and crass humour, Wrong No. is right (as......
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Archivei Spy: Shobhaa De and Bajrangi Bhaijaan
The cat is back in form. Indian socialite and writer Shohbaa De has put a dampener on the recent Salman Khan box-office smasher Bajrangi Bhaijaan by saying that the film is an attempt at making Sallu......
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ArchiveFrom Umrao Jaan to Jaanisaar
For the past three years, Muzaffar Ali has been living in the 1800s. He’s roamed through palatial corridors lined with ornate carpets and jousted with fierce tigers and elephants in Lucknow’s thick......
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Archive2,000 years of Asian Theatre at the Musee Guimet in Paris
PRACTICALLY everyone you mention her name to will be familiar with Mata Hari. But if you further question your interlocutors in depth, it will soon become evident that there is a lot of perplexity......
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ArchiveLiving in the shadows: A Hazara man finds solace in poetry
Quetta was once a beautiful garrison town with a thriving culture. Now, many of its residents do not even recognise its former self. A community that is intrinsically linked to that city is the......
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ArchiveThe decision to die
Generally, man has a deep-rooted desire to live a long, healthy life and in order to achieve this he takes care of his health through exercise and diet. He works and enjoys life by working, reading......
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ArchiveThe fault in our stars
Cricket is an obsession that cuts across age, gender, class and any other construct that you throw at it, and its presence is as ubiquitous as the weather – even those apathetic to it can’t help but......
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ArchiveBarren strips
On its website the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) describes itself as “the governing body for cricket in Pakistan” and “responsible for the promotion and expansion of the game.” As a claim, it sounds......
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Archive‘Is it reversing?’
Earlier this year, the higher ups at the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) summoned skipper Misbah-ul-Haq for a meeting on how cricket in Pakistan could be improved. This led to a 40-minute meeting, claim......
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ArchiveSelling them short: PCB’s kit deals
As the Indian and Pakistani cricket teams lined up at the newly re-designed Adelaide Oval in front of over 40,000 fans in the second match of the ICC World Cup, the mismatch couldn’t have been......
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ArchiveTime to move on
POPULAR political parties encompass various sets of opinion, each coming to the fore at its turn. There is a time for the belligerent, the acrimonious and the incorrigibly quarrelsome; once these......
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ArchiveProsecutors’ exodus
PAKISTAN’S decrepit criminal justice system has suffered another grievous blow. One hundred and fifty public prosecutors in Punjab have quit their jobs to take up posts in the judiciary, after they......
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ArchiveSpecial Olympics gold
IF cricket gets a bit tiring with all its unpredictable ups and downs, spare some time to catch up on the proud triumphs Pakistani athletes have been scoring in the Special Olympics. For more than......
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ArchiveMisplaced priorities
PUNJAB Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif was visibly upset on a recent visit to flood-affected areas near Dera Ghazi Khan. He vowed to take severe action against those found guilty of the dereliction of......
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ArchiveThe old dream
MULLAH Omar is dead. Osama is gone. It has the end-of-an-era ring to it. Which means, soon enough we’ll be, or possibly already are, in the next phase. So, what’s Pakistan’s place in it?Part of it......
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ArchiveLosing the narrative
IN a review of Anatol Lieven’s book Pakistan: A Hard Country, in the Guardian of May 1, 2011, Pankaj Mishra wrote:“[…] [A]n un-blinkered vision of South Asia would feature a country whose fanatically......
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ArchivePromoting hockey
THIS is apropos the article ‘The final nail in hockey’s coffin’ (July 14) by Khurram Shahzad. The writer has done no good to the beleaguered Pakistan hockey by painting a bleak picture of current......
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Archive‘Taxing non-filers’
APROPOS the editorial ‘Taxing non-filers’ (July 28). I feel it gives a one-sided view. First, you have presumed that non-filers do not pay any taxes at all. This is not true, as withholding taxes and......
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Archive‘Two operations’
APROPOS the article ‘Two operations’ (July 31). The country has come out of a policy paralysis and strategic inaction but is surely ill-served by its putative intellectual elite.The author was......
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ArchiveLNG pipeline
THE Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, announced recently that Pakistan would import liquefied natural gas (LNG) from China for which Pakistan is constructing......
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ArchiveArt and garbage
WE have been trying for the last several months to draw the attention of civic authorities to tons of garbage and the stinking open drains along our buildings overlooking the sea in Clifton’s Block......
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ArchiveAping Modi?
Pakistani leaders will now make speeches in Urdu while abroad because — because Narendra Modi has shown them the way. Sixty eight years have passed since Pakistan came into being, but it never......
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ArchiveCanadian visa
I APPLIED as a principal applicant for a Canadian visit/tourist visa along with my daughter and grandchildren in March 2015. Four months have passed and there is no feedback on the application......
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ArchiveKE: paying penalties
I READ in an Indian newspaper that a distribution company (Discom) will have to pay the penalties for all unscheduled power cuts in New Delhi.The government added that the penalties have to be paid......
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ArchiveToll tax collection at Madyan irks tourists
MINGORA: Commuters and tourists here on Saturday criticised the tehsil municipal administration (TMA) of Bahrain for collecting toll tax at the entry point of Madyan and asked the higher authorities......
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ArchiveSiren valley people seek jobs in dam project
MANSEHRA: Residents of Siren valley here have demanded jobs in Jabbori hydropower project which is being constructed on Siren River in the valley.“We will welcome construction of even more hydropower......
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ArchiveGirls clinch top positions in Mardan HSSC exam results
MARDAN: Girls outshined boys by grabbing top three positions in higher secondary school certificate examination results, 2015, announced by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Mardan,......
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ArchiveKP traders reject tax on bank transaction with one voice
PESHAWAR: Markets remained closed across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday as traders observed complete shutter down strike against withholding tax on bank transactions.The protesters warned they would......
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ArchiveNurse accuses hospital DMS of harassing her
PESHAWAR: A staff nurse in Hayatabad Medical Complex has accused deputy medical superintendent of administration of harassing her.Aleema Ghani told reporters at the press club on Saturday that DMS......
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PakistanPemra reluctant to issue licences to KP govt for FM radio stations
PESHAWAR: The wrangling between the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) over the functioning of a non-commercial FM radio station at Mardan has......
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PakistanRaging Kabul River forces scores in Nowshera to move to safer places
PESHAWAR: Rising water level in Kabul River has set alarm bells ringing in areas along the riverbank as residents have started moving to safer places in Peshawar and Nowshera districts.Also on......
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ArchiveThree killed, five injured as van falls into river
UPPER DIR: Two women and a girl were killed and five injured, while seven others went missing when a vehicle plunged into the River Panjkora in Doog Dara area here on Saturday.According to police,......
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PakistanPolicemen donate blood for cancer patients
KOHAT: Police officials donated blood in the police hospital for cancer patients here on Saturday.The blood donation camp was organised on the request of the Frontier Foundation as part of the......
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PakistanMilitant commander arrested in Jamrud
LANDI KOTAL: Security forces on Saturday arrested an important militant commander in Jamrud here.Security officials said Taliban commander Umar Khan Maki Khel was arrested from a house in Ghundi area......
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PakistanParties step up efforts to form LGs in Swabi
SWABI: The political parties have intensified efforts to form district government and four tehsil governments in Swabi. In the 56-strong district council, ANP has the majority with 24 seats followed......
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ArchiveTraders united against withholding tax, divided in their protest
ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI: In response to a call for a shutterdown strike against the imposition of a withholding tax on banking transactions on Saturday, only some shops remained shut as traders in the......
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ArchivePM to take up NARC issue on 6th
ISLAMABAD: The future of National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC) will finally be decided next Thursday (August 6), when Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will take up the issue at a high-level......
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ArchiveTwo injured in gas leak fire
RAWALPINDI: Two persons were injured in a gas leak fire in a house at Model Colony and were shifted to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) on Saturday.The fire broke out when the female......
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PakistanAWP members, slum dwellers move SC against operation
ISLAMABAD: Two days after bulldozing Sector I-11 Katchi Abadi, academicians, trade unionist and dwellers of the slum knocked the doors of the Supreme Court on Saturday seeking a declaration that the......
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ArchivePaintings with a difference
ISLAMABAD: A group show featuring Abrar Ahmed, Najmul Hasan Kazmi and Masood A. Khan opened at the Nomad Gallery. The gallery has shifted again from the F-6 premises to the picturesque Saidpur......
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PakistanAbduction, intimidation case against property tycoon re-registered
ISLAMABAD: A case against Bahria Town registered by Airport Police, on the orders of the apex court on July 24, was reregistered at Loi Bher Police Station on Saturday, as the incident took place in......
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ArchiveTwo killed in different incidents
TAXILA: Two persons were killed in separate incidents in Wah on Saturday.Bilal Liaquat committed suicide by hanging himself over some domestic dispute in Gulshan Colony area in Wah Cantonment police......
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PakistanIt's all about canes in Chik Bazaar
Among the automobile workshops and spare parts market in Ahata Mithhu Khan and Kabadi bazaar in Rawalpindi’s Saddar area, a bazaar has been thriving since colonial times.This bazaar is known as the......
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PakistanQambar Ali and the anonymous porters of Gilgit-Baltistan
His name was Qambar Ali. An avalanche thundered down Broad Peak, the world’s 12th highest mountain, on July 20, perhaps triggered by unseasonal summer snowfall.It was followed days later by the news......
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ArchiveMundwa Film Festival starts with Heer Ranjha screening
ISLAMABAD: The launch of Lok Virsa’s Mundwa Film Festival was greeted with great enthusiasm as adults and children gathered in the Media Centre to watch Ejaz Durrani’s Heer Ranjha.Fouzia Saeed,......
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PakistanAyaz claims neutrality in PTI MPs’ unseating issue
LAHORE: National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has claimed he will remain “neutral” in the matter pertaining to unseating Pakistan Tahreek-i-Insaf members of the House.Talking to reporters here......
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ArchiveTraders unite to close up shop
LAHORE: The provincial capital on Saturday witnessed a successful strike by traders who have been protesting withholding tax on banking transactions introduced by the PML-N government in the 2015-16......
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ArchiveLHCBA calls off protest
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court Bar Association called off its protest it had been observing against a female judge’s ‘misbehaviour’ with the bar president after Chief Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik on......
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PakistanHamid Khan sets about ‘cleansing’ PTI
LAHORE: Advocate Hamid Khan, one of the founders and core committee member of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), has announced launching a campaign for implementation of the intra-party election......
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PakistanPFA seals five oil units for using dead animals
LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) sealed five cooking oil units and had seven people arrested in the Chowki Crawl area after it found the workers extracting oil from dead animals fats on......
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PakistanGovt told to install cameras at police stations in six months
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has directed the Punjab government to complete installation of CCTV cameras at all police stations within six months to help eliminate ‘thana culture'.Issuing a detailed......
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PakistanWheat meant for export ‘on sale’ in local market
LAHORE: A section of flour millers on Saturday alleged that subsidised wheat, meant for export, was being sold in the local market, hurting both the businesses and the national exchequer – without......
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ArchiveMan killed as hotel iron shade falls
SAHIWAL: A man was killed and four others critically injured when a heavy iron shade outside a hotel collapsed at ada 7/11-L, Lohariyainwala, early on Saturday.Rescuers recovered the body and injured......
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PakistanFlood blocks road travel between Punjab, KP
DERA GHAZI KHAN: Road traffic link between Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa could not be restored even 48 hours after a 300-foot portion of the Indus highway was swept away from both sides of Khud......
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ArchiveTraders strike with locked shutters
FAISALABAD: Punjab shut bazaars and markets on Saturday on the call of traders’ bodies to protest the imposition of a 0.3 per cent withholding tax on banking transactions, introduced by the PML-N......
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Pakistan22 Afghans arrested
SARGODHA: Police during its campaign against illegal Afghan immigrants across the city on Saturday arrested 22 of them while seizing arms from their possession.Police arrested the Afghans from Hujan......
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ArchiveThree ‘robbers’ killed in ‘encounter’
MULTAN: Khanewal police claimed on Saturday to have killed three alleged robbers in an ‘encounter’.Police said three suspects were looting the people on Kikarhatta Road. The suspects snatched a......
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PakistanLawyers beat up court clerk
GUJRANWALA: A lawyer and his associates beat up a court clerk on the district and sessions court premises here on Saturday.According to sources, lawyer Shahbaz Chohan had allegedly slapped court......
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PakistanDrug smuggler gets death
MIANWALI: The sessions judge awarded death sentence to a drug trafficker under the Control of Narcotics Substance Act on Saturday.The convict, Anwar Khan, a resident of Kalla Khel, Peshawar, was also......
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PakistanNew laws to curb fake drugs soon
LAHORE: Adviser to Chief Minister on Health Khwaja Salman Rafiq has said new legislation is being carried out to curb the manufacturing and sale of fake and substandard medicines.Addressing an......
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ArchiveBody found
KARACHI: A partially-decomposed body of a man was found in the Jackson area on Saturday, police said.Published in Dawn, August 2nd, 2015On a mobile phone? Get the Dawn Mobile App: Apple Store |......
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PakistanPlea to grill three Safoora carnage suspects in another case allowed
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Saturday allowed the police to grill three suspects allegedly involved in the Safoora bus carnage in another case pertaining to a suicide attack on the convoy of a......
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ArchiveCatholic board schools to reopen on 12th
KARACHI: With various private school associations and the Sindh education department engaged in a tug of war over the extension of vacation due to rains, all schools that come under the Catholic......
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Archive13-year-old boy found dead
SUKKUR: The body of a 13-year-old boy was found dumped on Fauji Road in Jacobabad on Saturday, officials at the Saddar police station said.They identified the victim as Hussain Bukhsh, son of......
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ArchiveProtest over withholding tax keeps most Sindh towns shut
HYDERABAD: Saturday saw closure of almost all major business, trade and commercial concerns across the interior of Sindh on a call given by the business community and all but a few organisations of......
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PakistanKhuhro defends EC’s move to postpone LG elections in Sindh
HYDERABAD: Sindh Minister for Information and Irrigation Nisar Ahmed Khuhro said on Monday that the Election Commission had requested the Supreme Court to change the schedule for local government......
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PakistanFIA returns some files of seized KMC land record
KARACHI: Some of the over 56,000 files which the Federal Investigation Agency had seized from the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) offices a week ago have been returned after a new standard......
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ArchiveComedian Farid Khan dies after long battle with cancer
KARACHI: Comedian and actor Farid Khan, who died on Saturday, aged 62, after suffering from jaw cancer for 15 years, was a superstar on stage in the late 1980s and early 1990s whose jokes were clean......
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Archive‘A man with a pure soul and an innocent smile’
KARACHI: Very rarely does one get to see such heartwarming scenes. The 100-year-old scholar and writer, Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo, himself turned up at an event held to celebrate his centenary at a local......
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ArchivePlane part arrives at French lab for probe into MH370 link
PARIS: A piece of Boeing 777 wreckage washed up on an Indian Ocean island and suspected to belong to missing flight MH370 arrived on Saturday at a French laboratory for analysis.If confirmed as being......
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Archive‘Rose Garden’ country singer dead at 67
LOS ANGELES: Grammy-winning country legend Lynn Anderson, who sprang to international stardom with her 1970s hit “Rose Garden”, has died at the age of 67, news reports said on Saturday.Anderson died......
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ArchiveOver 300,000 seek asylum in Germany
BERLIN: Germany has hosted more than 300,000 asylum seekers since the start of the year, said the daily Die Welt on Saturday, as Berlin prepares for a record influx of refugees in 2015.According to......
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ArchiveKerry in Egypt to relaunch strategic partnership
CAIRO: US Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Egypt on Saturday to relaunch a strategic partnership with Washington’s longtime ally, at the start of a regional mini-tour.He is also due in Qatar on......
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Archive21 feared dead in Manipur mudslide
GAUHATI: Twenty-one people were feared dead on Saturday in a mudslide triggered by torrential monsoon rains in India’s remote mountainous northeast region, police said.The mudslide occurred in......
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ArchiveTrotsky’s house for sale in Istanbul
ISTANBUL: It has 18 rooms, five bathrooms and is spectacularly located on an island off Istanbul. And all the more, it was once the refuge of the exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky.This......
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ArchiveExiled Yemen PM, officials in Aden to lead restoration effort
ADEN: Yemeni Prime Minister Khaled Bahah flew to the devastated port of Aden from Saudi exile on Saturday, two weeks after loyalist forces ousted Houthi rebels from the city, an airport source......
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ArchiveOsama’s stepmother, sister killed in UK plane crash
LONDON: Members of Osama bin Laden’s family were among four people who died when a private jet crashed in Britain, Saudi Arabia’s embassy in London said on Saturday.The Saudi-registered plane......
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ArchiveSlain Palestinian toddler’s parents, brother fighting for their lives
JALAZON: The parents and brother of a Palestinian toddler burned to death by suspected Jewish extremists were fighting for their lives on Saturday, as demonstrators held a second day of protests over......
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ArchiveTaliban deny reports of Haqqani’s death
KABUL: The Taliban on Saturday denied reports of the death of the founder of Haqqani network, its allied militant group blamed for some of the deadliest attacks in Afghanistan.Pakistani media......
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Archive25 rebels killed in attack on Syrian army base
BEIRUT: At least 25 Syrian rebels were killed in a failed attack on a makeshift army base outside the northern city of Aleppo, a monitoring group said on Saturday.Nine regime forces were also killed......
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ArchiveIraqi Kurds urge PKK to leave civilian areas
ISTANBUL: Turkey has killed 260 Kurdish militants in a week-long air offensive on targets in northern Iraq, official media claimed on Saturday, as regional Iraqi authorities said it was time the......
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ArchiveWorking class area turns into huge rainbow mural
PACHUCA: A community project in central Mexico is bringing art to people’s homes. Literally.A group of artists known as the Germ Collective have spent 14 months turning the hillside neighbourhood of......
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ArchiveMarshall Pétain: Hero or traitor?
JULY 23, 1945 remains a discomforting date for the French in general, a date that raises perturbing and unanswerable questions; more so this year as it happened to be the 70th anniversary of the......
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ArchiveShamers on the prowl in social media jungle
WASHINGTON: The killing of a Zimbabwean lion by an American dentist is a vivid reminder of how, in this era of social media, it’s a virtual jungle out there.Big game hunter Walter Palmer joins a......
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ArchiveMudassar Arain to represent Pakistan at Netball Congress
KARACHI: Mudassar Razak Arain, secretary general of the Pakistan Netball Federation (PNF), will represent the country at the Congress of the International Netball Federation which will be held in......
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ArchivePlunkett, Footitt named for Trent Bridge Test
BIRMINGHAM: England have added pace bowlers Liam Plunkett and Mark Footitt to a 14-man squad announced on Saturday for next week’s fourth Ashes Test against Australia at Trent Bridge.Yorkshire quick......
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ArchiveJayasuriya, Kapugedera help SL set Pakistan tough target
COLOMBO: Aggressive batting by debutant Shehan Jayasuriya and Chamara Kapugedera lifted Sri Lanka to 172-7 in the second and final Twenty20 International against Pakistan in Colombo on......
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ArchiveTraining, fitness key to excellence in cricket: Wasim
KARACHI: Pakistan legend Wasim Akram on Saturday emphasised the need for extensive training for young guns to maintain fitness if they aspire to follow path of international cricket.Addressing a......
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ArchivePakistan’s cyclists excel at Long Beach with four gold medals
LOS ANGELES: Pakistan’s Special Olympians did wonders at the cycling competitions held at Long Beach here during Special Olympics World Games 2015, winning as many as four gold medals in the five and......
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ArchiveWasim emphasises resumption of Pakistan-India series
KARACHI: Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram has called upon the Indian cricket authorities not to mix sports with politics following reports of the scheduled Pakistan-India bilateral series this......
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ArchiveArgentine executive in FIFA case pleads not guilty to US charges
NEW YORK REUTERS: The former chairman of an Argentina-based sports marketing business, one of 14 people indicted in a corruption case that has roiled the football world’s governing body FIFA, pleaded......
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ArchiveArsenal seek title proof in Chelsea encounter
LONDON: Arsenal’s readiness to mount a sustained title challenge in 2015-16 will be tested at Wembley on Sunday when they face Premier League champions Chelsea in the Community Shield.Arsene Wenger’s......
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ArchiveIOC hears reports on Rio’s dirty water, Tokyo emblem flap
KUALA LUMPUR: A day after the high-profile vote which awarded Beijing the 2022 Winter Games, International Olympic Committee (IOC) members dealt on Saturday with issues affecting the next two......
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ArchiveZimbabwe look to build on India shock in NZ one-dayers
HARARE: Zimbabwe plan to tap into the renewed energy that sparked a victory over India recently as they take on an under-strength New Zealand side in a three-match One-day International series......
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ArchiveRio Games torch to arrive in Brazil on May 3
KUALA LUMPUR: The Rio de Janeiro Olympics torch will be lit in Greece’s ancient Olympia on April 21 next year before leaving for the South American country 12 days later.The torch will arrive in......
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ArchiveRain washes out third day of Dhaka Test
DHAKA: Heavy rain washed out the third day’s play in the second and final Test between Bangladesh and South Africa at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium here on Saturday.Match officials called off......
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ArchiveAussie captain demands more of bowlers — and himself
BIRMINGHAM: Australia captain Michael Clarke called for an improved performance by his attack and was even harder on himself after an eight-wicket defeat by England in the third Test here at......
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ArchiveCook sets sights on claiming Ashes in Nottingham Test
BIRMINGHAM: England captain Alastair Cook has challenged his side to end their frustrating inconsistency by winning two Tests in a row and regaining the Ashes at Trent Bridge.Friday’s victory here at......
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ArchiveAustralia reaffirms interest in future Olympic bid
KUALA LUMPUR: Australia is still weighing up the possibility of mounting another bid to host the Olympics, possibly in 2028, despite knowing its two biggest cities have no real chance of being......
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ArchiveVolleyball win for Pakistan
LAHORE: Pakistan on Saturday defeated Oman in straight sets in the Asian Volleyball Championship in Tehran.According to the information released by the Pakistan Volleyball Federation (PVF), Pakistan......
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ArchiveTwo rugby matches decided
LAHORE: Two matches were decided on the first day of Pakistan Rugby Union U-20 Seven-a-Side Championships in Makhdoom Aali, Lodhran.While the first match saw Vehari defeat Duniyapur 17-0, the second......
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ArchiveLehmann ready to be patient with Clarke
BIRMINGHAM: Australia coach Darren Lehmann has said captain Michael Clarke will get as “long as he needs” to come out of his batting slump.Scores of 10 and three during Australia eight-wicket defeat......
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ArchiveSeven races in Lahore today
LAHORE: A moderate card of seven races has been drawn up for the day/night Lahore Summer Meeting at the Racecourse here on Sunday.The feature event, the Conflict Plate Class VI to be gone over the......
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ArchiveOnly four races at KRC
KARACHI: A small and mediocre four-race card has been drawn for the Gymkhana race meeting which takes place at the Karachi Racecourse on Sunday.Alltogether, there are 27 acceptors who will vie for......
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ArchiveInterest payment on domestic debt rises 13.3pc
KARACHI: Interest payments on domestic debt showed year-on-year growth of 13.3 per cent during July-May period of 2014-15, said State Bank’s latest monetary policy information compendium.The burden......
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ArchiveDar offers open talks to traders on banking transaction tax
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has softened up to protesting traders and offered open talks on Monday (Aug 3) to hammer out an amicable solution on the issue of 0.3 per cent withholding tax on......
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ArchiveSECP amends KSE regulations on audit
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has amended the regulations of the Karachi Stock Exchange to ensure fairness and transparency in the capital market.The amended......
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PakistanWorld Bank MD arrives for talks on reforms
ISLAMABAD: World Bank Managing Director Sri Mulyani Indrawati, who arrived on Saturday for talks on economic reforms, said that the country has successfully stabilised economy, and it now needs to......
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PakistanBusiness community ‘misrepresenting’ withholding tax issue
KARACHI: The imposition of 0.3 per cent withholding tax (WHT) on banking transactions by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) can bring paradigm shift in taxation system by helping increase revenue......
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ArchiveGreece may seek up to 24bn euros in first new aid tranche
ATHENS: Greece may seek 24 billion euros in a first tranche of bailout aid from international lenders in August to prop up its banks and repay debts falling due at the ECB, a pro-government Greek......
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ArchiveOil outlook getting bleaker amid diesel glut
RIYADH: Outlook is getting bleaker.With oil prices losing more than half their value over the past year, shedding more than $10 a barrel during the last month only, industry is beginning to......
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ArchiveOil prices fall; metals steady
LONDON: Oil prices hit fresh multi-month low points this week, with no sign of an end to a global supply glut.Metals, including gold and copper, stabilised after a recent rout fuelled by cracks in......
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Archivecorporate watch
SBP justifies HBL sale proceeds in its booksKARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan has justified keeping the Habib Bank’s (HBL) sale proceeds on SBP’s balance sheet.Explaining a news item published in......
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ArchiveTPP leaders fail to clinch trade deal
WASHINGTON: Delegates negotiating a vast Pacific free-trade agreement have failed to reach a final deal after several days of intense talks in Hawaii, dealing a setback to US President Barack Obama.......
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ArchiveLow cotton prices induce buying
KARACHI: Falling cotton prices on Saturday attracted buying from spinners who were otherwise reluctant to enter into deals on reports that phutti (seed cotton) reaching ginneries is having higher......
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ArchiveChina manufacturing index slows in July
BEIJING: Chinese manufacturing activity slowed further in July, official data showed on Saturday, an early sign of weakness for the world’s second-largest economy in the second half of this year.The......
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ArchiveBad investment advice lives forever on the internet
NEW YORK: As writer Theodore Sturgeon observed, 90 per cent of science fiction is crap, but then again 90pc everything is crap.In the world of online investment opinions, Sturgeon was an optimist.Not......
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ArchiveItaly is the most likely country to leave the euro
WASHINGTON: What do you call a country that has grown 4.6 per cent — in total — since it joined the euro 16 years ago? Well, probably the one most likely to leave the common currency. Or Italy, for......
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ArchiveCommittee formed to resolve textile issues
ISLAMABAD: Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar here on Saturday constituted a committee to resolve issues of the textile industry.The decision was taken at a meeting of the All-Pakistan Textile Mills......
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ArchiveCharge-sheet against MQM chief submitted in anti-terrorism court
KARACHI: Police on Saturday submitted a charge-sheet against Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain in an anti-terrorism court in a case pertaining to criminal intimidation.The MQM chief was......
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ArchiveConfusion over reopening of schools in Sindh
KARACHI: Confusion persisted on Saturday about reopening of schools after summer vacation in Karachi and other districts of Sindh.Initially, the secretary education told electronic media that schools......
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PakistanSeven die in KP rains; Indus in ‘very high flood’ at Guddu
LAHORE/PESHAWAR: The flood situation showed no improvement across the country on Saturday. Torrential rains and flash floods killed seven people in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and in Sindh, the Indus was......
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ArchiveInquiry ordered over shoddy dam, dykes
QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Dr Malik Baloch has ordered an immediate inquiry into the substandard construction of a dam in Barkhan and destruction of two important dykes in Zhob.He was......
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PakistanHouses damaged in Indian firing
SIALKOT: The Indian Border Security Force (BSF) resorted to unprovoked intensified firing on border villages in Bajwat sector of Working Boundary on Saturday.According to senior officials of the......
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PakistanNAB blames ex-PM for backlog of cases
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau has conceded that its operations were adversely affected when then prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in his maiden speech in the National Assembly......
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ArchiveFootprints: Poverty amidst opportunity
WHEN they heard that a delegation of local and international officials would convene on Bamiyan province to inaugurate the eponymous capital as the Saarc cultural capital, the residents of Yakawlang......
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ArchiveErdogan makes stopover, meets Sharif
ISLAMABAD: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was accorded a red carpet welcome on Saturday when he made a brief stopover here on his way back to his country from Indonesia.As the Turkish......
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PakistanIndia proposes security advisers’ meeting
ISLAMABAD: New Delhi has proposed a meeting of the National Security Advisers (NSAs) on Aug 23 for discussing the terrorist threat faced by India and Pakistan.A Pakistani diplomat confirmed to Dawn......
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ArchiveNew Taliban chief hints at further delay in talks
ISLAMABAD: A longish delay in resumption of the Afghan reconciliation process appears likely as new Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour, in his first recorded message, has hinted at pursuing both......
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ArchivePakistan grab T20 series, sweep all three rubbers
COLOMBO: Pakistan ended their tour of Sri Lanka with a dramatic one-wicket victory in the second Twenty20 on Saturday to complete a 2-0 series win, having also triumphed in the Test and ODI......
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PakistanTraders observe strike against new tax
LAHORE: An overwhelming majority of traders — retailers and wholesalers both — across the country kept their shutters down on Saturday in protest against the Nawaz Sharif government’s decision on......
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PakistanISI chief advised Benazir not to attend rally: witness
ISLAMABAD: The security officer of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has told an anti-terrorism court that the director general of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) in 2007 had advised her......
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WorldSlain Palestinian toddler's parents, brother fighting for lives
JALAZON: The parents and brother of a Palestinian toddler burned to death by suspected Jewish extremists were fighting for their lives Saturday, as demonstrators held a second day of protests over......
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