KARACHI: Taking notice of complaints of using expired chemicals in the fumigation spray to control dengue in the metropolis, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Monday ordered an inquiry......
“I felt the earth heave beneath my feet, it was the most powerful earthquake I have ever felt,” says Hajra Bibi, an aged woman from Charbagh, dazed and shaken from the experience.Hajra Bibi was......
ISLAMABAD: A team of Pakistan Army won the gold medal in the premier patrolling event of the British Army - Exercise Cambrian Patrol - beating around 140 teams from armies across the globe.The......
DUBAI: Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq paid tribute to his batsmen after beating England by 178 runs in the second Test on Monday.The win put the 'hosts' 1-0 up in the three-match series and ensured......
DUBAI: A suicide bomber blew himself up at a mosque in Najran in southern Saudi Arabia on Monday, killing at least three people and wounding several others, Saudi-owned al Arabiya television......
DUBAI: Rival captains Misbah-ul-Haq and Alastair Cook praised England's figthback which delayed Pakistan's victory in the second Test in Dubai, hailing batting from the tail on a difficult last day......
Indian Air Force jets flew over our heads; we could hear them buzz a few seconds after the planes disappeared into the bright sunny day. They flew in pairs. I don’t know how far the jets went inside......
A powerful earthquake struck a remote area of Afghanistan on Monday, shaking the capital Kabul and killing at least 24 people, including 12 schoolgirls, seven people in the eastern province of......
October 26, 1952, the Pakistan cricket team completed their first ever Test match triumph after beating arch-rivals India at the University Ground at Lucknow in the second match of a five-game......
DUBAI: Pakistan's bowlers wore down tough resistance from England's tail to win the second Test by an emphatic 178-run margin in Dubai on Monday, taking a 1-0 lead in the three-match......
As soon as an earthquake of 7.7 magnitude jolted parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan and India on Monday, eyewitness accounts started pouring on the internet.The updates below provide a real-time view of......
On October 26, 2015, a strong earthquake measuring 7.7 magnitude struck major cities of Pakistan, including the northern areas. Strong tremors were also felt in Kabul and New Delhi.The quake, which......
COLOMBO: Left-arm spinners Rangana Herath and Milinda Siriwardana shared seven wickets as Sri Lanka thumped the West Indies by 72 runs in the second Test on Monday to sweep the series 2-0.The......
Earthquakes, as with most natural disasters, have this uncanny ability to strike when you are at your most vulnerable and unprepared.It is not uncommon to see images of people running out of a......
A 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck major cities of Pakistan, including the northern areas on Monday, leaving at least 200 dead and more than 1,000 injured due to building collapses, landslides,......
MADRAS: The Madras high court has suggested the Indian central government consider castration as an additional punishment for those who sexually abuse children, HindustanTimes reported. The......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan summoned India's deputy ambassador to protest over a threatening phone call received at Sindh governor's official residence from India, Foreign Office spokesman Qazi Khalilullah......
KABUL: Afghan officials say two employees of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission were killed by a roadside bomb that struck their vehicle in the eastern Nangarhar province.Commission......
BALI: Police on the Indonesian resort island of Bali say they've arrested a former Indian primary school teacher who is facing the death penalty in his homeland for the murders of 20 young women.The......
ISLAMABAD: Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) personnel were able to partially open the road from Naran Valley to Kaghan — which was blocked due a spell of heavy snowfall — enabling the first convoy......
LAHORE: Pakistan's first specialised homicide investigation unit launched by Punjab police last month comprises a 478-strong unit which pairs veterans with university graduates who have had an extra......
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE: Colleen Kelly came to Guantanamo Bay with a sense of impatience, dismayed at the US military's floundering effort to try five detainees charged with roles in the Sept 11......
KABUL: At the age of just 14, Afghan rights activist Aziza Rahimzada has already surmounted legal hurdles preventing 25,000 refugee children from attending school, and cajoled authorities into......
India is being scorched by a brand of Hindutva that is "fanning the flames of division and fear across the country", even as the people in power have failed to unequivocally condemn recent hate......
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HONG KONG: At least 100 people were injured late Sunday when a high-speed ferry travelling from Macau to Hong Kong hit an "unidentified object" in the water, according to authorities.Pictures showed......
DHAKA: Bangladesh police said Monday they have arrested four people in connection with the murder of an Italian aid worker who was shot dead last month in an attack claimed by the self-styled Islamic......
LAHORE: Two Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) workers were killed and seven others were injured as a clash broke out between PTI and PML-N party workers in Lahore's Yakki Gate area early Monday.The dead......
SIALKOT: At least two minors were killed during an exchange of fire between Punjab Rangers and Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) across the Working Boundary in Shakargarh sector early Monday.The......
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed gratitude on the return of Geeta, the deaf and mute Indian girl who was stranded in Pakistan for more than a decade, and thanked the Edhi family for......
CAPETOWN: South African businessman and former political prisoner Tokyo Sexwale is to run for the presidency of world soccer’s governing body FIFA, a spokesman said on Saturday as the deadline for......
DUBAI: England’s in-form batsman Joe Root and Pakistan’s fiery fast bowler Wahab Riaz were involved in the first flashpoint of the series here on the fourth day of the second Test on Sunday after......
KARACHI: The start of the first-class cricket season in Pakistan is usually a low-keyed affair. But Monday’s opening fixture of the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy National Cricket Championship here in Karachi......
DUBAI: Veteran batsman Younis Khan on Sunday warned England can fight back to foil Pakistan’s victory bid in the second Test in Dubai.Pakistan were in sight of a victory after getting three key......
KARACHI: National prize bonds are selling like hot cakes these days as the business community is reportedly using them as an alternative mode of payment to avoid withholding tax (WHT) on bank......
IN his introduction to Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances, Neil Gaiman acknowledges that short stories aren’t the publishing world’s favourite form of fiction. They aren’t seen as......
A CENTURY ago, when the doors of formal education were shut on most Muslim women of the subcontinent, a group of teenaged Muslim girls brought out a handwritten monthly magazine for women named......
By Kabir BabarFIFTY years ago, the manuscript for a lengthy science fiction novel was finally accepted by Chilton Book Company, a publisher of engineering manuals, after more than 20 rejections by......
ONE of this summer’s most talked about thrillers, The Girl on the Train makes a conquest of all the clichés it aspires to: it is unputdownable, a gripping read and a compulsive page-turner. Since......
LET’S begin by invoking Saadat Hasan Manto. Presently his name is much in the air and an endorsement from him should count for a lot with many readers, particularly those who are still short of 40.......
Neither a Hawk Nor a Dove by former foreign minister, Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, is a valuable addition to literature on Pakistan’s foreign policy. It joins many other books, writings and interviews of......
A CONTAINER allegedly unloading smuggled soap at a major retail chain in Karachi was recently intercepted on the complaint of a multinational company.The details of the raid, the value of merchandise......
THE rupee weakened slightly against the dollar in the local currency market last week amid thin trading volumes.Trading was reduced to four days and major market players in both the currency and......
IN a first sign that the continued monetary easing seems to be having some impact on the banking sector’s earnings, Askari Bank Ltd reported a drop in its interest income for the third quarter of the......
IN a departure from the trillion-rupee open market operations that had become the norm over the past few months, the central bank injected a relatively lower Rs50.05bn into the banking system last......
CONVENTIONAL wisdom tells us that a national currency should be allowed to depreciate to an ‘effective’ market exchange rate to boost exports.However, a recent related report in the Financial Times......
THE sales tax in Vat mode is generally seen as a stable source of revenue, but a common faultline in this system is its susceptibility to unethical practices, something witnessed in both developing......
PAKISTAN’S leather industry has gone through some difficult years in the recent past owing to both internal and external factors.The last fiscal year was one of the toughest as global commodity......
HOME remittances sent by Pakistanis working or settled abroad play a vital part in building the country’s foreign exchange reserves and financing imports.But it is not clear how much of these inflows......
CEMENT players continue to enjoy increasing gross margins courtesy declining global coal prices. The price of coal — a key raw material for the industry — had declined by about 19pc year-over-year by......
EACH of the 12 Pacific Rim countries that recently concluded negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership would have us believe that this historic opportunity would usher in a new era of......
THE production of traditional oilseeds like canola, rapeseed and mustard has increased in recent years owing to an expansion in the area of their cultivation and the rise in their per-hectare......
Now that the initial euphoria of ‘higher than the Himalayas and deeper than the deepest sea’ is over, the $45bn China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is beginning to hit the ground realities.As is......
FEDERAL Minister for Food Security Sikandar Hayat Khan Bosan has been quite vocal in supporting farm subsidies to enable farmers to cut their cost of production and to make farming a profitable......
PUNJAB risks losing part of the gains made in livestock improvement over the last one decade as the artificial insemination businesses pack up, alleging highhandedness by a livestock department......
THE proliferation of taxi-hailing services through apps, thanks to the surge in the number of smartphones, is transforming the urban commuting scenario in India.Though governments have spent billions......
South KoreaOver the past four decades, South Korea, Asia’s fourth largest economy, has achieved incredible growth and global integration to become a high-tech industrialised economy. In 2004, it......
CREDIT Suisse is raising SFr6bn of fresh capital while cutting back the amount that it allocates to securities trading; Deutsche Bank is dividing its investment banking division in two and wants to......
JERUSALEM: Fresh violence flared between Israelis and Palestinians on Sunday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to install more security cameras at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in a bid to......
GURGAON: Four Shiv Sena activists were arrested on Sunday for disrupting a drama staged by some Pakistani actors in Gurgaon. Acting on a complaint by Gurgaon municipal corporation PRO Satbir Rohilla,......
LONDON: Former British prime minister Tony Blair apologised on Sunday for certain aspects of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, adding there were “elements of truth” to the view that it was connected to the......
MANSEHRA/PESHAWAR: A spell of heavy snowfall paralysed Naran Valley, one of the popular tourist spots in the country, on Sunday. Over 1,000 tourists were stranded in the valley and long lines of cars......
ISLAMABAD: In addition to an insurgency and rampant mis-governance, the restive province of Balochistan is facing a groundwater shortage of nearly catastrophic proportions.Thanks to excessive of......
RAWALPINDI: About 50 tourists stranded on the Barwai-Battakundi road in Naran were evacuated by personnel of the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO), an ISPR spokesman said here on Sunday.The FWO......
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: Pakistan witnessed some of the heaviest pre-winter rains in recent memory over the weekend, leading to a marked drop in temperature in various areas across the country. On Sunday......
ISMAT Chugtai (15August 1915 – 24 October 1991) was an eminent Indian writer who is often heralded as a fierce feminist and considered by many to be the grand dame of Urdu fiction.She was an......
DUBAI: Pakistan grabbed three wickets including the key scalp of Alastair Cook to sense victory in the second Test against England after Younis Khan smashed his 31st century on Sunday.Pakistan will......
KARACHI: Pakistan’s record-breaking batsman Younis Khan on Saturday became seventh fastest player to accumulate 9,000 runs in Test cricket when he reached 47 on his way to yet another century.The......
MUMBAI: Quinton de Kock, Faf du Plessis and captain A.B. de Villiers all hit centuries as South Africa thrashed India by 214 wins on Sunday to clinch the five-match One-day International series.The......
MANCHESTER: Manchester United and Manchester City shared the spoils after a forgettable 170th Manchester derby that yielded only two shots on target finished 0-0 at Old Trafford on Sunday.The point......
LONDON: The battle of Twickenham between New Zealand and South Africa left broken teeth, black eyes and stitches, but All Black warhorse Dan Carter escaped the carnage to see the All Blacks through......
KHUZDAR: Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, secretary-general of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F (JUI-F), said on Sunday that people considered his party’s leadership their “last hope” when it came to......
MUZFFARABAD: Two Kashmiri activists accused India’s mainstream media on Sunday of “constantly publishing and airing baseless reports” about Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) to defame Pakistan.“We are......
UNITED NATIONS: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned the terrorist attacks on Ashura processions and Imambargahs in Pakistan.In a statement issued by his spokesperson,......
ISLAMABAD: The Parliamentary Committee on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is meeting here on Monday to receive briefings from officials of various organisations and ministries about the progress......
ISLAMABAD: Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah asked the government on Sunday to work out a plan to prevent Indian “interference” in the country after discussing......
ISLAMABAD: Defence Secretary retired Lt Gen Alam Khattak left for Turkey to hold talks with Turkish officials on defence related matters, said a press release on Sunday.He will be leading the......
KARACHI: The deaf and mute Indian girl, Geeta, will leave for New Delhi on Monday (today) though doubts linger about the family she has recognised as hers through photographs sent by the Indian High......
ISLAMABAD: A joint investigation team of the National Accountability Bureau and Pakistan Rangers looking into allegations of corruption and irregularities in the energy sector has expanded its probe......
DAR SALAAM: Tanzanians voted in presidential and general elections on Sunday, in what is expected to be the tightest race in the history of east Africa’s most populous country.Long lines of voters......
BRUSSELS: As thousands of Syrians, Afghans and others kept up their relentless march through the Balkans, European leaders held an emergency summit on Sunday to find ways of easing the plight of......
MANADO: Twelve people were killed and dozens injured early on Sunday after a fire broke out in a crowded karaoke bar in a city on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, police said.The blaze was sparked by an......
DHAKA: At least one person was killed and nearly 80 wounded in a bomb attack on the main Shia shrine where thousands had gathered for the annual Ashura procession on Saturday, police said.Police......
CAIRO: A group of Egyptian and foreign experts launched on Sunday a new bid to unravel the “secrets” of the pyramids, including a search for hidden chambers inside four famed pharaonic......
AS schoolboys in Paris in the late ‘50s, my two brothers and I were served fried eggs on the days our school kitchen had pork on the lunch menu.Twenty-five years later, my son and his mother visited......
TROLLHATTAN: The southern industrial city of Trollhattan has become a focal point for underlying racial tensions in Sweden, a nation that has displayed generous attitudes toward refugees.A......
KIEV: Local elections in Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol were called off on Sunday, prompting the ruling party of President Petro Poroshenko and the pro-Russian Opposition Party to blame each other......
MANILA: The Philippines cancelled flights and put hospitals on alert on Sunday, as its southern and central islands were covered by thickening haze from Indonesian forest fires.Smog from Indonesian......
DAMASCUS: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday his country must “eradicate terrorism” to find a political solution to its civil war, as he reportedly expressed a willingness to hold new......
CAIRO: Severe weather swept across the Middle East on Sunday, pounding Israel with baseball-sized hail, sending torrents of uncollected garbage through the streets of Beirut and killing six people in......
STILLWATER: A car with a suspected drunk driver at the wheel barreled into crowds watching a homecoming parade at Oklahoma State University on Saturday, killing four people and injuring more than 40......
Tony Blair’s at it again. He apologises – but not for the war, only for the “intelligence”. There are “elements of truth” – whatever that means – in the view that his and George W Bush’s 2003 Iraqi......
LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron’s government faced a growing row on Sunday over plans to cut welfare payments for low-income workers on the eve of a highly sensitive vote in......
SUKKUR/LARKANA: The Majlis-i-Wahdat Muslimeen (MWM) and Shia Ulema Council (SUC) leaders who along with relatives of the victims of Friday bomb blast in Jacobabad had started a sit-in at DC Chowk in......
KARACHI: Police investigators from Karachi have started investigation into the Jacobabad suicide blast of the 9th of Muharram that claimed over 20 people’s lives, it emerged on Sunday.The......
KARACHI: Police have identified 35 blind spots across the city that appear to have eluded the proverbial long arm of law for long as incidents of mobile snatching have shown no let-up at these spots......
KARACHI: In the first phase of local government elections to be held on Oct 31 in eight districts of Sukkur and Larkana divisions, polling will be held for 540 union councils.Direct elections will be......
WANT to become a scholar of Urdu overnight? Want to be invited to the ‘international’ conferences on Urdu language and literature to present a ‘research paper’ before an audience consisting mostly of......
KARACHI: The Sindh government has informed the National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta) in Islamabad that it has completed geo-tagging of half of its 10,000 madressahs in the province, it......
SUKKUR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Sindh organiser, Dr Arif Alvi, has said that if the Sindh government had taken effective steps to eliminate terrorists’ network after the Shikarpur Imambargah attack,......
LAHORE: Participating in corner meetings and rallies of local government candidates, eating and enjoying till late hours has become a favourite pastime for youths in the city these days.They know......
FAISALABAD: The businessman who was blackmailed into paying an IB inspector Rs10 million was a victim of an elaborate conspiracy hatched by one of his friends, with the help of some others.According......
Agreat many Punjabis have abandoned their mother tongue and climbed the bandwagon of Urdu poets. However, there are still a number of writers who have resisted the temptation of the national language......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has appointed two administrative secretaries for the newly-created medical education tertiary care health as well as primary and secondary healthcare departments.Health......
LAHORE: Awami Muslim League chief Sheikh Rasheed called on Pakistan Awami Tehreek president Dr Tahirul Qadri in Canada, says a message received here on Sunday.Both the leaders, who along with Imran......
LAHORE: The oldest resident of the zoo, Raja, the male hippopotamus who spent 41-years there, died here on Sunday.Raja was imported for the zoo from Africa back in 1974. The apparent reason for his......
RAWALPINDI: A PML-N activist was killed and another wounded when their rival opened fire at them for holding a corner meeting for the upcoming local elections in Dhoke Malalia within the limits of......
RAWALPINDI: Youm-e-Ashur was observed in the garrison city amid tight security and bad weather.The mourning processions were taken from the Qadeemi Imambargah, the Hazrat Ali Shah Imambargah and the......
ISLAMABAD: While the world observed polio day on Saturday, eradicating the virus in Pakistan still seemed like a distant dream.Though the government has made many efforts, including taking religious......
The South Korean embassy ended its month-long festivities with a garden party at the ambassador’s residence.Ambassador Song Jong-hwan and his wife hosted the party to celebrate the Foundation Day of......
Cuban-Pakistani diplomatic relations turned 60 years in 2015. This has already been marked with a few events in Islamabad this month, including an art exhibition titled ‘Ghost Postes’, by Cuban......
Spain’s new envoy to Pakistan Ambassador Carlos Morales welcomed hundreds of guests to a reception at his residence in the Diplomatic Enclave to celebrate the Spanish National Day, ‘Fiesta Nacional......
RAWALPINDI: Over 1,250 motorcycles that were impounded after their drivers violated the ban on pillion riding on Muharram 9 and 10 were returned to their owners on Sunday after a directive from the......
RAWALPINDI: Batair or quail may be the favoured game for seasoned hunters, but its meat has become very popular among urbanised residents of the garrison city.In the past, it was mostly hunters who......
RAWALPINDI/ISLAMABAD: Intermittent showers that started on Friday had, by Sunday, turned into a full-fledged deluge as the twin cities received the largest amount of rainfall in the country over the......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar city district government is at loggerhead with Town-I and Town-III over the ownership of the bus stands and terminals in the capital city, which are the major source of revenue......
PESHAWAR: Dr Shakil Afridi, an agency surgeon deputed in Khyber Agency, was taken into custody by the law enforcement agencies in May 2011 on charges of helping the American CIA in tracking down Al......
PESHAWAR: Ashura was observed peacefully in the provincial capital as the main mourning processions culminated smoothly after going through their designated routes.The main mourning procession was......
PESHAWAR: Bilal Khan, a young amateur rabab player, envisions a bright future for Pashto music in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.Resident of Malakand, Thana and student of final year, at sociology department in......
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Dear Auntie,My husband has a cousin who comes to our house very frequently. She is very nice to us, as is her husband. They have two children. I don’t mind her coming over so much, the only problem......
Despite Hollywood having collectively decided that the only the white dude will play the lead, even if the brown dude has a commanding screen presence that shoves Robert Downing Jr into his armour,......
Siachen; an icy, rigged battlefield mired with decades of bloodshed and frustration. It is a terrain that has long blotted the history of the subcontinent with the deaths of thousands; killed more by......
No demo in Pakistani pop has ever been loved more than Mujhay Roko. Before last Friday, the song existed in two equally poorly recorded versions: one laden with synth-fills and an almost dance beat......
Josh has always followed a fan following in Pakistan. In fact, Q calls Karachi his second home. Q and Rup were recently in the city for the Unplugged series performance with Komal Rizvi when Images......
A lovely, mild winter evening was quietly coming to an end. The setting sun like a huge red ball burnt its way into the deep blue ocean. By the time we sailed out of the sleepy small town of Gwadar,......
The sustained and complex body of work mounted by Akram Dost Baloch at the Chawkandi Art Gallery, Karachi, was dazzling in its energy and mastery of diverse media that was utterly compelling. The......
Many of the great museums of Paris known to the outside world are situated in former royal abodes, like the Louvre or the Grand and the Petit Palaces. Some are in recently erected buildings specially......
Andy Warhol painted “Green Burning Car I”, measuring 90 inches x 80 inches, oil on canvas made of synthetic polymer, silkscreen ink and acrylic on linen in 1963, which is a part of his extremely......
There are no winners in a humanitarian tragedy — in Lebanon alone, there are 1,078,338 registered refugees from Syria. The country is already home to an estimated 500,000 Palestinian refugees who......
Journalist Isidoro Trovato was vacationing in Kos, Greece when he came across, what he estimates, were around 1,000 Syrian migrants stationed in front of the municipal office. An Italian journalist......
Standing on the highest point of the Greek island of Lesbos in the first light of the morning, Kinan Kadouni would peer carefully through his binoculars to see if he could spot a boat. Where are......
The word ‘condemnable’ doesn’t even begin describe how one feels, how every sensible human being feels, about Hindu extremist group Shiv Sena’s cowardly act of forcing Pakistani artists to leave......
Good news folks. Yesteryear heartthrob, not that today she isn’t, Babra Sharif is back where she belongs: doing films. To be precise, she’s doing one film right now. It’s called Two + Two, directed......
You don’t expect filmmakers to shoot their projects on locations for which permission is required. Well, it seems that Sanjay Leela Bhansali is guilty of doing that. An FIR has been lodged against......
Pakistani designers stand head and shoulders above their peers in the region when it comes to fashion design. And to prove that four leading labels/names in fashion will pitch their designs as part......
It’s been three years since the Chhote Nawab Saif Ali Khan and the gorgeous Kareena Kapoor tied the nuptial knot. This Oct 16 was their third marriage anniversary. Sadly, Kareena K had to celebrate......
It is remarkable how director/screenwriter Guillermo del Toro (Pacific Rim) boasts a body of films which consistently feature mouthwatering visual effects, stunning CGI, gorgeous set design, lovely......
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the tallest living man in the world (between 1982 and 1998), was Pakistan’s Mohammad Alam Channa. Before his death in 1998, Channa was reported to......
Can you spare a billion for Pakistani kids, Joanne Kathleen Rowling, who need to be rescued? Just hold this thought?Meanwhile, what has fifty got to do with it? Plenty. Apart from blowing out 50......
Herodotus (d.425 BC), the Greek historian points out in his historical narratives that nature has created rivers, mountains, and oceans to separate nations from each other so that they could live......
Karachi was living a tetchy peace since the April 1985 rioting after Bushra Zaidi was killed in a road accident. A year later, it dawned upon Sindh Chief Minister Syed Ghaus Ali Shah and provincial......
They might heckle over a single rupee on most days of the year, but for niyaz-related affairs, many in Hyderabad don’t care about the expenses incurred. This year, buying quality pulses and grains in......
Android is the most popular operating system on the face of this planet with over a billion users using it globally. There are over a billion apps in existence on the Google Play store, dedicated to......
Can’t do vigorous exercise like aerobics, treadmill, cycling, and yoga? Who said that’s essential for keeping fit? They are good and effective, no denying the fact but they are not the end all.......
IN the appointment of recently retired army general Nasser Khan Janjua as the country’s new national security adviser are two stories.The first story is the military’s attempt to wrest away seemingly......
IN return for a commitment that Pakistan would double its education budget in three years, American first lady Michelle Obama announced at a recent White House event, to which the prime minister’s......
THEY say the world turns and we must turn with it. Yet there are some parts of the past that it is difficult not to be nostalgic about — even when new realities are more convenient.Few in the......
NO state can stay isolated or afford isolation in this age of globalisation. One recent example of this has been the crisis of the self-styled Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. The West tried to avoid......
LATER this week, Lahore, along with 11 other districts in Punjab, will head to the polls for its first local government elections in a decade. Historically, low turnouts and praetorian re-engineering......
THE recent opening night of ‘Fabric of India’, a new exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, was a glittering affair. Londoners adorned in their finest pashminas, saris, and Nehru jackets......
SEVERAL years ago, an international newspaper compiled a list of the names of some 15 or 20 militants from different parts of the world, tried and convicted for involvement in various terror attacks.......
