HYDERABAD: Federal Minister for Industries Ghulam Murtaza Jatoi has said that the Centre is not unmindful of the law and order in Karachi and is paying due attention to improve it...
Speaking to journalists after calling on Qaumi Awami Tehreek president Ayaz Latif Palijo on Sunday to condole his sister’s death, Mr Jatoi said that maintaining law and order was the responsibility of the provincial government but innocent people were...
ON June 19 at 9...
30pm our family was robbed at gun point on the main road near Samama Shopping Complex in Gulistan-i-Jauhar, Karachi
KARACHI: Top provincial and city authorities, including the chief secretary and city commissioner, and provincial chiefs of police and Pakistan Rangers have been put on notice to appear before a larger bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan that is set to resume the proceedings of the Karachi killing suo motu case on Monday (today)...
The apex court bench is headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Anwar Zaheer Jamali with Justices Amir...
SIALKOT: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif asked people on Monday to support his government in materialising mega projects and reject ‘container politics’ which, he said, had only created anarchy and lawlessness in the country...
The government would not only overcome the deficiency, but also provide cheap electricity, he said and mentioned the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project as a symbol of prosperity...
He said though the government was giving a free hand for the march and public meeting, Imran Khan’s threat of besieging police stations in case of arrest of workers was creating the fears that the party could opt for lawlessness to cover up the failure of amassing a reasonable number of people...
DERA GHAZI KHAN: Blaming inefficiency, apathy and negligence of state machinery, besides illiteracy and unemployment, for the rampant lawlessness and growth of criminal gangs in the tribal areas of DG Khan and Rajanpur, Punjab’s former governor and chief of Khosa tribe, Sardar Zulfiqar Khan Khosa suggests introduction of an efficient justice system in these areas that is also consistent with Baloch culture and local norms and revamp of the...
JUI-F district chief Maulana Abdur Rasheed and general secretary Maulana Laiq Khan, Awami National Party’s senior leader Maulana Khan Zeb, Pakistan Peoples Party’s former MNA Sayed Akhunzada Chattan, Youth of Bajaur chairman Rehan Zeb Khan, tribal elder Malik Shaheen Khan and several other notables addressed the participants of the sit-in...
LAHORE: Red-tapism within the Punjab School Education Department may have an effect on the speech and essay writing competitions 2015, launched by the chief minister with the aim to empower both male and female students to combat the menace of terrorism in the country...
“It has come to the notice of the competent authority that the instructions regarding speech and essay writing competitions are not being conveyed to lower formation…...
These features not only lend unique colours to Urdu literature written in Pakistan after independence, but also set it apart from the Urdu literature written in India during the last 70 years...
Mushtaq Ahmad Yousufi in his laughter-evoking memoirs Zarguzasht (though he himself called it an “autobiography of the childhood”) tells of a Karachi that was emerging in Pakistan’s early days, when I...
”The point would be made again a few years later in Richard Hofstadter’s essay ‘The Paranoid Style in American Politics’, which noted that “a fundamental paradox of the paranoid style is the imitation of the enemy...
In the essay ‘21st Century’, he wrote, “The 21st century hasn’t come to Pakistan, but been brought here kidnapped...
He is credited for originating the two-nation theory, founding the Aligarh Movement and being a founding father of Pakistan, but less celebrated are his achievements in providing a modern, scientific and rational interpretation of Islam and the Holy Quran, as well as his debates on culture that — in the face of stern opposition from fundamentalists and detractors — sowed the seeds of enlightenment and progress...
”A comprehensive...
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
I depicted their uncanny similarities first in a 2015 essay, and later in a 2016 viral mashup video of The Dark Knight’s trailer...
If so many changes continue, at some point you’ll have to ask yourself … why is this movie called Maula Jatt?Maula Jatt (1979) is the most significant film in Pakistan’s history — and not for the best reasons...
In Pakistan, Saadat Hasan Manto was especially marked out by the Progressive Writers Association (PWA) for publication of a haunting series of sketches: Siyah Hashiay, and this created so much bad blood that Manto was eventually expelled from the PWA...
It contained masterpieces like ‘Peshawar Express’, though I have always thought that the much-underrated short story in this collection ‘Aik Tawaif ka Khat Pandit Nehru aur...