I must be the only woman in Jamaica who didn’t hear the Prime Minister say that there were five flights to Miami for anybody who wanted to leave...
Marlon James’s Booker prizewinning novel A Brief History of Seven Killings is a fantastic attempt at recounting the attack on Marley through a variety of eccentric, rowdy and colourful characters that provide, to a reasonable extent, a clear, albeit bloody, insight into the...
Violence again erupted between Urdu and Sindhi residents in the wake of a bill passed by the Sindh Assembly on July 2, 1972 outlining measures for the promotion of the Sindhi language...
Sociologists also trace the history of Karachi’s ethnic conflagarations to the 1960s after then president Gen Ayub Khan initiated a plan to settle Pakhtuns — his own ethnic group — in the city...
ISLAMABAD: A film screened at the Pakistan Institute of Parliamentary Services (PIPS) on Tuesday took viewers through the thousands of years of spiritual history of the land where Pakistan stands today...
“Pakistan appears to be searching for a new narrative to replace the extremism which has borne militancy...
The reason behind the city’s old neighbourhood’s political awareness is that the National Awami Party, a predominantly Left-origin political group, launched itself from Lyari...
“The Baloch Students Organisation was established there while Lyari was the ultimate bastion for all democratic and Left-oriented parties,” added Dr Baloch...
But the British officials recorded the date of its establishment as May 4, 1800, in the law passed to establish the FWC, just to mark the first death anniversary of Tipu Sultan, announcing in a subtle way that the fall of Mysore was a landmark victory which had paved way for a greater role for the British in the subcontinent...
It worked as a stimulus for the Urdu language and literature as well, and a large number of Urdu books...
But already it has taken a turn for the nasty...
History is being rewritten at will...
LONDON: As police in Pakistan hunt for the father of Sara Sharif, a 10-year-old girl who was found dead in her Surrey home on August 10, chilling details have started to emerge about alleged abuse suffered by the minor in the past...
The Supreme Court on Saturday sought details of all security barriers in Lahore from Inspector General (IG) Punjab Arif Nawaz...
A three-member bench at the SC's Lahore registry, headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, was hearing a suo motu notice on security blockades in different parts of the city...
PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz on Saturday filed a petition in the Lahore High Court (LHC) seeking the removal of her name from the Exit Control List (ECL)...
Maryam is currently free on bail in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills (CSM) case but her name remains on the no-fly list...
The divisional administration’s policy to involve the National College of Arts (NCA), University of Engineering and Technology (UET), the Walled City of Lahore Authority (WCLA), Parks and Horticulture Authority and others in planning, designing and executing small pilot schemes for the city’s beautification in view of its natural, cultural, heritage and historical values is a right step in the right direction...
Currently, various...
Once you enter Delhi Gate on the eastern side of the old city, you enter Kashmiri Bazaar and almost 500 yards ahead is the exquisite Mosque of Wazir Khan...
This is famous for a number of reasons, mainly so because the Kakayzai tribe has a history...
Of late there is a growing interest among academic circles in the skill of the astrolabe makers of Lahore...
What interests them in particular is not only the metallurgy and the manufacturing techniques, but the scientific accuracy of their instruments, especially those used in Mughal days inside the walled city of Lahore...
The Pakistan Super League (PSL) has made a name for itself as a tournament of close finishes and the final of the eighth edition on Saturday was fit to crown the champion of any trophy...
The tournament came down to one delivery and in the end, Zaman Khan held his nerve and Lahore Qalandars made history to become the first team to successfully defend their PSL title...
A five-year-old girl was on Saturday married off to a 22-year-old man at village Raman Shar in the outskirts of Dakhan Town, some 40 kilometres from Shikarpur, before police intervened to arrest key individuals involved, local police said...
The police also took the five-year-old bride, the daughter of Zameer Shar, into custody along with her mother...
An attempt to marry a 12-year-old girl to a 55-year-old man was thwarted by Sukkur police on Saturday, according to SSP Mohammad Amjad Shaikh...