Living Colours: ‘I chose to cycle on Biafo to draw attention to Pakistan’s glaciers’
Dawn spoke to Samar about her experience long-distance cycling in Pakistan...
Together, we decided to cycle from Islamabad to Abbottabad...
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PakistanAbuse and hush money — Pakistan's domestic workers caught in a dangerous cycle of violence
According to Shabnam Naji, a lawyer and Chairperson Peace Council Pakistan, mutual settlements such as these that are made outside the ambit of law-enforcing institution, are advantageous for the accused party...
“Very few victims are able to have their pleas heard since the family cannot bear the [monetary] brunt of the High Court,” explains Javed William, the president of Faces Pakistan...
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ArchiveUnderstanding Pakistan’s boom-bust cycle
HISTORICAL data reveals that Pakistan’s GDP exhibits booms followed by sharp busts...
Does the current macroeconomic scenario indicate a high risk of a crisis? If so, what are the policy lessons to prevent such an episode from occurring in the future?Recent data on Pakistan’s current account reveals worryingly similar patterns...
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ArchiveWazir wins cycle race
KARACHI: National rider Mohammad Wazir of the Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) won the 144km Karachi to Hyderabad Defence Day Cycle Race, the Pakistan Cycling Federation (PCF) announced on Monday...
The event was hosted as part of the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the Defence Day of Pakistan...
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ArchiveWall Street banks warn winter is coming as business cycle peaks
The global business cycle is nearing a peak, leaving equity and credit markets at risk of a painful drop once the economic headwinds inevitably take hold...
Analysts at HSBC Holdings, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley see mounting evidence that global markets are in the last stage of their rallies before a downturn in the business cycle...
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ArchiveA leaf from history: Zia’s cycle show and the siege of the Ka’aba
While this show of cycling was taking place, on the morning of Nov 20, 1979 the people of Pakistan woke up to the news regarding the capture of Khana-i-Kaaba by some Saudi militants...
Zia pledged that Pakistan government would bear the loss to the embassy building and later paid Rs250 million for the repairs...
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ArchiveA vicious cycle
There are millions of children in Pakistan who share Abid Ali’s plight, having no other option but to engage in some form of exploitative economic activity to survive...
” And indeed the lack of education is part of a vicious cycle...
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PakistanMQM: a cycle of peaks & troughs
Against this backdrop, addressing the Ladies Club, the army chief’s wife had reportedly launched a tirade against the PPP, decrying what she termed the brutal atrocities that were being visited upon the ‘poor Mohajirs who had sacrificed so much for Pakistan’ by the Benazir Bhutto-led government...
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ArchiveAnti-drug cycle rally reaches Pindi
RAWALPINDI: The ‘Jeeway Pakistan cycle rally’, which started from Muzaffargarh on April 22 to create awareness against drugs, reached the ANF headquarters here on Monday...
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ArchiveOwais wins inaugural Mohmand cycle event
GHALANAI (Mohmand Agency): Mohammad Owais of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa won the inaugural Governor KP Mohmand Tour De Cycle Race here on Saturday...
Political Agent Waqar Ali Khan, Pakistan Cycling Federation secretary general Syed Asghar Ali Shah, director sports Fata Mohammad Ayaz, Commandant Mohmand Rifles Col Umar Haider Bukhari, MNA Bilal Rehman, tribal elders, schoolchildren and a large of number of spectators were present on the...
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ArchiveCycle race participants receive warm welcome at Sakrand
NAWABSHAH: The cyclists participating in the Tour de Sindh Cycle Race passed through Nawabshah-Sakrand here on Saturday on way to Bhit Shah...
The Tour de Sindh Cycle Race, to be run over 1,600km, commenced from Ghotki early this week...
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ArchiveKP: continuing the cycle of dependency
In its forthcoming fifth budget, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s coalition government is unlikely to break any new ground but is largely expected to retain its focus on social sector and grassroots level development...
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PakistanCycle race marks first overdose awareness day
ISLAMABAD: To mark the International Overdose Awareness Day, a cycle race was held at the Islamabad Sports Complex on Saturday...
However, in Pakistan the day was observed for the first time this year...
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ArchiveVicious agri cycle
THE growing unrest in rural Pakistan — mainly rooted in the international commodity price crash — seems to have assumed proportions where it can no longer be ignored...
The prime minister’s Rs321bn ‘kissan package’ — some components of which have now been stayed by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — was an attempt by the ruling party to contain the discontent in the farming community...
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PakistanTour de Galyat Cycle Race concludes
ABBOTTABAD: Habibullah of Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) lifted the glittering trophy of the Tour de Galyat Cycle Race organised jointly by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa tourism department and KP cycling association...
Total 78 cyclists representing nine teams took part in the cycle race which was started from Islamabad and ended at Nathiagali...
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