Granted, social media can be a dangerous place; but it also provides a safe haven for ordinary people who, lacking trust in law enforcing agencies and/or the judicial system, use the digital space to air their grievances and protests in order to seek solidarity and some sort of justice...
Without efficient law enforcement agencies and intelligence community armed with the resources and infrastructure to deal with security threats, we...
ISLAMABAD: Former Test fast bowler Sarfraz Nawaz said on Friday that Zimbabwe cricket team’s tour to Pakistan has come as a big ray of hope for cricket lovers in the region and it will be a huge step towards the revival of international cricket at home...
Talking to APP, Sarfraz said Zimbabwe’s tour to Pakistan will prove a huge success as the entire nation is waiting for the African team to arrive...
The best news coming out of Pakistan last week was about the recovery on Tuesday of Shahbaz Taseer, the abducted son of slain Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer...
But Pakistan’s progressive groups welcomed the move, some unconditionally exuberant and others with reservations about the issue of capital punishment...
From the very first day of my career as a journalist, I have heard story after story about the horrific state of healthcare in Pakistan...
There is now a ray of hope in Islamabad’s F-9 park...
Aashi is at the Fountain House Stitching Centre when I first meet her, sitting at the main reception desk of its display shop supervising both novice and experienced tailors working on the day’s orders...
The centre is a well-maintained, neat space comprising a set of counters with sewing machines and a few shelves exhibiting an array of vibrantly coloured items, cushion covers and table runners alongside candles, wall hangings and...
SHE has no specific idea how Bengali film-maker Satyajit Ray came to know about her...
“All I know is that Manikda [Satyajit Ray] placed an advertisement in the papers in search of a teenage girl for playing the part of Aparna, Apu’s wife, in his new film Apur Sansar,” says Sharmila Tagore...
KARACHI: In a moving demonstration of changing attitudes to threatened marine species, fishermen looking for tuna 158 kilometres south-west of Karachi safely released a giant manta ray back into the sea after it got entangled in their fishing net recently, according to officials of the World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-P)...
It was the first release of a giant manta ray by fishermen who had to lose their net in a half an hour...
Ray Tomlinson, considered to be the godfather of email, has died, according to his employer, Raytheon Company...
"A true technology pioneer, Ray was the man who brought us email in the early days of networked computers," Raytheon spokesman Mike Doble said in a statement...
Perhaps this is the purpose that this X-ray report serves while revealing many unseen and unheard of facts about contemporary Urdu literature...
RAY Tomlinson died in New York State on March 5...
Today, thanks to Ray Tomlinson, a brief letter is written, emailed, and may elicit a response within minutes...
MINGORA: During the three years of militancy, when there was no ray of hope for the traumatised widows and orphan girls in Swat, Shama Khalilur Rehman, a young entrepreneur, came forward to not only rehabilitate them but also help them to stand on their own feet...
Now they give me work and also sell the items in the market at a higher price...
But speaking to media, the Indian High Commissioner said that his presence here in the narrow streets of Meethadar was itself a gesture towards peace in the region and may even pave way for resumption of India-Pakistan dialogue...
Also read: Will 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan' help this girl stranded in Pakistan?Dr Raghavan also aired his delight to be finally meeting Maulana Edhi and Mrs Bilquis Edhi in person...
IN a country where women get raped, gang-raped or killed for ‘honour’; where many more at the slightest provocation are subjected to other forms of horrendous violence that result in life-altering injuries, there is a ray of hope...
Based on media reports, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan recorded over 2,500 cases of violence — sexual, domestic, burning and kidnapping — against women in 2016...
IN a country where women get raped, gang-raped or killed for ‘honour’; where many more at the slightest provocation are subjected to other forms of horrendous violence that result in life-altering injuries, there is a ray of hope...
Based on media reports, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan recorded over 2,500 cases of violence — sexual, domestic, burning and kidnapping — against women in 2016...
RAWALPINDI: Though an initial medical exam of a minor domestic worker who was allegedly tortured by an army officer and her husband had confirmed she had been tortured, an X-ray has now revealed that she also has two fractured ribs...
The X-ray showed that she had fractures on the eighth and ninth ribs on the left side...