The Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA), an anti-PPP political platform in Sindh, demonstrated a power show in Sukkur on Sunday where its leaders claimed that they will form government in the province......
Protest demonstrations and sit-ins held in major cities on Sunday, to express solidarity with the Faizabad protesters, continued to affect the daily life of citizens across the country for the second......
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Sunday opened the first high-level meeting of a kingdom-led coalition of Muslim nations against terrorism in Riyadh.The inaugural meeting of the Islamic......
A major explosion hit China's megaport city of Ningbo on Sunday, killing at least two people, injuring dozens and wrecking buildings, state media and local authorities said.The Ningbo government said......
The federal government on Sunday evening called in Punjab Rangers to assist civilian law-enforcement agencies and tasked them with handling the agitated law and order situation in Islamabad and......
PESHAWAR: Activists of the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah and its likeminded religious groups staged protest rallies and blocked major highways in Peshawar and other towns of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) emergency department was emptier than usual on Saturday, even though nearly 200 people were brought to the hospital from the Faizabad......
RAWALPINDI: After their initial battle with police at the Faizabad Interchange, participants of the religious parties’ sit-in spread across the garrison city when security personnel fell back to......
ISLAMABAD: The government failed spectacularly in removing the protesters from Faizabad on Saturday, and despite using thousands of officials from law enforcement agencies, the protest site was......
FAISALABAD: The fourth two-day Faisalabad Literary Festival concluded here on Saturday providing an opportunity to the local literature buffs to enjoy live talk by some of their favourite writers and......
Gifted with a sharp eye and a seeker’s heart, Punjabi poet and novelist Nazar Hussain Jani was born to a daily-wage labourer in the small village of Goppay Raaey at the bank of the Ravi on the......
The last time we discovered that the national flag carrier, the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), was a burden to the economy, early 2016, two men died in the protests surrounding the proposed......
On December 21, 2016, Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif announced a major reshuffle of the bureaucracy. Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) was without a chairman at the time, as the old one, Azam......
With his memoirs Surkh Siasat:Kitab-i-Zeest Ke Chand Katey Phhattey Auraq, Abdur Rauf Malik has considerably enriched ongoing studies on Pakistan’s left. His theme is neither a history of the......
"May you live in interesting times” is a Chinese adage that seems to perfectly apply to the state of utter bewilderment everyone faces in the Trump era. When uncertainty reigns supreme, the political......
Sometime in 2012, Anita Joshua — an Islamabad-based reporter for The Hindu with whom I had frequent telephone conversations — rang me up to find out why Pakistanis don’t call North Indian classical......
At the Annual Conference on South Asia held at the University of Wisconsin, a highlight for Urduwallahs used to be the panel on literature from the Progressive Writer’s Movement, with presenters......
"Exile is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted.” — Edward SaidWhether pushed by......
Not since Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance have I read a book as moving as Stoner. Written by John Williams, it was published in 1965 and sank without attracting much critical notice at the time.......
A thematic link can easily be made between master director Satyajit Ray and Iranian artists whose works contributed to their national film industry’s second wave such as Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar......
Merits of the Shoaib Mansoor-directed film Verna aside, one must acknowledge the way the star of the movie Mahira Khan has been highlighting the scourge of sexual harassment and rape on different......
In a pivotal moment of absolute thrill, Sara (Mahira Khan) runs frantically up the stairs of her posh home, straight into her bathroom and starts to senselessly pound someone to pulp in the bathtub.......
Before the sale of a painting that some scholars and a very assertive auction house believe is by Leonardo da Vinci, the debate was all about authenticity. Was this painted panel, known as ‘Salvator......
The title of Salman Toor’s latest exhibit at the Canvas Gallery, Short Stories, is a fitting encapsulation of the exquisite paintings on display that seem to be visual snippets of larger events,......
Artist Adeel uz Zafar’s Hell, Purgatory and Paradise show, exhibited at the Fost Gallery in Singapore recently, is yet another spin on Dante Alighieri’s epic poem The Divine Comedy. One of the great......
The past June in Karachi, temperatures soared to 47.2 degrees Celsius (117 degrees Fahrenheit) with 94 percent humidity, resulting in scores of deaths caused from heatstrokes alone. These......
We love winter, and why wouldn’t we? The cool temperature and crisp air bring a welcome change from the sweltering heat and blazing sunlight we experience throughout the year. But while winter calls......
All across the world, the hapless, dual passport-holding members of the oppressed multi-billionaire middle-class are heard beseeching the deities for justice and recompense that have consistently......
It will probably take longer to read this article than it will to start a pot of soul-satisfying chilli bubbling on the stove. With preparation time all of 10 minutes, this hot and spicy stew......
Many of us have garden areas — or balconies/verandas — that are largely in the shade, which some people feel are not suitable for the cultivation of vegetables and herbs.This, however, is not always......
Hey Auntie. I am a teenage girl and desperately searching for some love in this world. My love life is literally zero and I want to run into a relationship as soon as possible with a trustworthy and......
In the May 9, 1991 issue of The Frontier Post, veteran journalist and intellectual Ahmad Bashir wrote that just days before Mr Jinnah’s Muslim League managed to turn the demand for a separate......
Following the creation of Pakistan, my family undertook a second migration in 1951 from lush green Chittagong in the former East Pakistan to Karachi. In Bengal, while our ears feasted on the melodies......
Russia — the land of subzero temperatures, natural beauty and authoritarianism (read Vladimir Putin) ... Formerly the largest part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR), Russia has always......
At the age of 40, Saeed Ajmal, the magician, has finally decided to call it a day. Unlike Misbah-ul-Haq and Younis Khan, whose retirements were celebrated by the whole cricketing fraternity earlier......
HISTORY attests that the conclusion of military alliances often leads to military conflict. Indeed, alliances are often formed for the purpose of waging war. It is thus ominous that several new......
DEATH by hemlock or a shotgun to the face is the kind of choice that can make you forget the result is the same.Yesterday felt like a bit of both.It wasn’t shocking. Only the naïve are unaware of......
OBSESSED as we are with non-issues like Malala’s jeans or Maryam’s tweets, two significant news items went unnoticed. One report said that some $16 billion worth of loans remain unutilised, the other......
IN recent years, Pakistan’s foreign policy has become overly India-centric. It is failing to fully recognise the risks and costs of non-traditional threats to national security and has lost much of......
KARACHI: At least 35 people were injured, some of them receiving gunshot wounds, as violence erupted in Karachi on Saturday during protests mounted by activists of religious parties in solidarity......
KARACHI: “I want to tell children fighting cancer that they must not cry or lose hope. God will help them as He helped me,” said 12-year-old Saifullah, a student of Class VIII now, when asked by Dawn......
LARKANA: Sindh United Party (SUP) convener Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah on Saturday warned the government against issuing computerised national identity cards (CNICs) to any immigrant who had entered the......
DADU: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Liaquat Ali Jatoi has said that PML-N and PPP leaders have the same agenda of loot and plunder of public resources and Mian Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali......
HYDERABAD: Enraged workers of various religious outfits took to the streets in many Sindh towns, burnt tyres on roads and staged sit-ins outside press clubs in the wake of police action against......
LOS ANGELES: This weekend marks the 75th anniversary of the premiere of Casablanca, a timeless story of love, loss and redemption many consider to be the greatest movie ever made.Rushed onscreen at......
BRISBANE: Steve Smith produced a defiant unconquered century and Josh Hazlewood claimed two wickets to leave England reeling as Australia cracked open the first Ashes Test at the Gabba on......
NAGPUR: Murali Vijay and Cheteshwar Pujara both hit hundreds and combined in a stand of 209 to hand India a big first innings lead over Sri Lanka on the second day of the second test in Nagpur on......
SAITAMA: Brazilian sharp-shooter Rafael Silva smashed a late winner as Japan’s Urawa Reds beat 10-man Al-Hilal 1-0 on Saturday to win a second Asian Champions League title.The forward, who also......
ABU DHABI: Valtteri Bottas denied quadruple world champion team mate Lewis Hamilton the final pole position of the Formula One season on Saturday, leading a Mercedes one-two in Abu Dhabi Grand Prix......
KARACHI: Noor-e-Mustafa and Nauman Aftab beat their respective rivals to advance in the under-18 category of the 3rd McDonald’s National Junior Tennis Champoinship being played at the DA Creek Club......
KARACHI: The chairman of District Municipal Corporation (DMC) Karachi South, Malik Muhammad Fayyaz, on Saturday distributed sports goods in 24 schools of the Lyari area.A ceremony to this effect was......
MUMBAI/BENGALURU: The buying of physical gold remained muted across major Asian centres this week as higher prices dented demand, though seasonal demand could boost activity in top consumer China......
KARACHI: Spinners continued to pay quality premium for cotton, with lint prices attaining a new peak of Rs7,050 per maund.Due to uncertainty about crop size and cotton quality, the market remained......
ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI: The army was called in on Saturday to deal with the aftermath of a botched operation against protesters from religious parties that had all but paralysed the twin cities of......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday will commence hearing of the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) appeal to reopen the controversial Rs1.2 billion Hudaibya corruption reference, said to be......
Expressing concerns over the deteriorating law and order situation in the federal capital, PTI chairman Imran Khan and Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq insisted that instead of launching an armed......
