For many years, my grandfather continued his daily op-eds until it slowly became apparent that along with the house on Nisbet Road, his love of Urdu will also become a thing of the past...
Fluent Punjabi and Hindi were the only languages spoken or read in the newly divided Punjab and my grandmother, with her Kinnaird College education, had a much better grasp of it...
In the heady days after the phenomenal success of Humsafar, rumours surfaced that this might be the serial to reunite the nation’s favourite jodi, Fawad Khan-Mahira Khan, with the added buzz of everyone’s favourite, Sanam Baloch, in its cast...
However, the excitement died down as Fawad left for Bollywood and the cast changed entirely...
So, after running through an Indian line up of ‘Galácticos’ earlier in 2006, Asif went to Sri Lanka with somewhat of a reputation...
It was his performance in the second Test in Kandy which prompted coach Bob Woolmer to proclaim: “I don't think Pakistan for a long time has had a bowler like him...
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan in its 'State of Human Rights in 2015 report' found that anti-state violence in Pakistan over the past year fell below 2008 levels, while there was a 40 per cent decrease in violence-related deaths in 2015...
The report examines Pakistan's performance in various areas, including violence, human rights, rights of women and children, education, health and housing, among others...
ISLAMABAD: Export of merchandise fell by 13...
232bn in the same month last year, causing a higher than expected trade deficit, suggested data of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Tuesday...
ISLAMABAD: Merchandise exports fell by 5...
082bn in the same period last year, suggested data of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Wednesday...
LONDON: A Romanian woman who fell into the River Thames during last month’s terror attack outside the British parliament has died in hospital, police said on Friday, bringing the toll to five...
Andreea Cristea, 31, was visiting London with her partner Andrei Burnaz, who intended to propose to her later that day, according to Romanian ambassador Dan Mihalache...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s exports to the European Union (EU) fell 11...
903bn, according to EU official data available with Dawn...
884bn in the same period last year, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics data showed on Wednesday...
The State Bank of Pakistan in a recent report said that factors like recession in advance economies, snags in tax machinery and energy shortage have stagnated the exports...
With the keyboard you did not, for instance, need to buy a sitar...
But with Mizla Bai, a famed singer, even the police stepped back, remembers Baalay Khan...
38pc in October 2015, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics data revealed on Wednesday...
Also read: Services export dipsExports last year (July-Oct) also fell by over 6...
As the opposition demands an investigation into the Panama leaks and the Sharif family’s offshore companies, little attention is being paid to the Pakistani state’s poor record in such inquiries...
Indeed, to provide some insight as to what an investigation into the latest scandal will yield, Dawn looks at by three high-profile cases that rocked the fragile PPP government around five years ago: the Haj scandal, the ephedrine scam and...
The main accused, a former chairman of Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra), fled the country, but was brought back to Pakistan under pressure from the dogged pursuance of the case by the Supreme Court...
However, he was apprehended in Dubai and then extradited to Pakistan in July 2013...
KARACHI: The Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) witnessed a decline of 11 per cent during the first month this fiscal year over the same month last year, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) reported on Tuesday...
Pakistan needs to attract more foreign investments in the wake of changing economic situation in the Middle East to mitigate fall of remittances from the region...
Terrorist attacks fell by 13 per cent compared with 2014, while fatalities caused by terrorist activity declined by 14 per cent, the agency said in its report on global terrorism, which tracks trends in political violence...
The State Department's acting coordinator for counter-terrorism, Justin Siberell, said the drop was due to fewer attacks in Iraq, Pakistan and Nigeria...