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  • Confusion swirls on border after Trump reversal on families

    President Donald Trump's order to stop separating migrant children from their parents spread confusion along the border, with officials still working on a plan to reunite families while sending conflicting signals about the state of the administration's “zero tolerance” policy...

    Parents who remained locked up struggled to get in touch with children being held in many cases hundreds of miles away
  • Talk of shake-up swirls at FBR

    ISLAMABAD: Ms Nausheen Javaid Amjad on Tuesday took over as acting chairman of the Federal Board of Revenue after Shabbar Zaidi applied for a 15-day leave citing health reasons...

    Nausheen is a BS-22 officer of Inland Revenue Service presently posted as Member (Administration)
  • Apple opens map development office in India's Hyderabad

    NEW DELHI: Apple said Thursday it will open a development office in Hyderabad, as its chief executive Tim Cook continued his India charm offensive with an investment boon to one of the country's top technology hubs...

    Local government ministers in Telangana state, of which Hyderabad is the capital, expressed their delight on Twitter at the new centre, a partnership with local software firm RMSI...

  • Artists reclaim Karachi walls from hate graffiti

    KARACHI: For years Karachi’s walls have been spattered with the bloodstains of murder victims and scrawled with graffiti touting everything from sectarian hatred to quack cures for erectile dysfunction...

    Now a group of artists and volunteers are reclaiming the walls by painting them with cheerful designs aimed at bringing some happiness and pride back to an often violent, chaotic and corrupt city...

  • New ‘walls’ now divide Germany, says president

    MAINZ: Germany’s Sept 24 national election has shown the country is divided by new, less visible “walls”, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Tuesday, the anniversary of German reunification...

    “On September 24th, it became clear that other walls have arisen, less visible, without barbed wire and death-strips, but walls that stand in the way of our common sense of ‘us’,” Steinmeier said in a speech in the western city of...

  • ‘Walls of peace’ to remember slain journalists

    KARACHI: In order to commemorate the work of journalists who died in the line of duty, I Am Karachi, a collective body of diverse civil society organisations, launched a series on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, under its Walls of Peace initiative...

    Under the series, murals of the first TV presenter, and the first war correspondent in Pakistan, will be painted on the walls of the Karachi Press Club (KPC)...

  • Obama speaks out against hiding behind walls

    BERLIN: Former US President Barack Obama told an audience in Berlin on Thursday that prosperous nations could not “hide behind a wall” to shield themselves from the turmoil and poverty afflicting other countries...

    Speaking in a panel discussion on democracy with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in front of 70,000 people at a spot where the Berlin wall once stood, Obama spent 90 minutes talking about international and US issues without...
  • Walls and bridges

    So is it time to build walls and fences to secure national borders? The idea of raising walls against invaders and mischief-makers is not new...

    A series of walls and fences along 933km of this border are already in place with cameras and sensors...

  • The walls have eyes: Kabul's anti-corruption graffiti

    As the Taliban's insurgency has raged on, the grey cement blast walls have mushroomed in Kabul in recent years, usually to insulate the rich and powerful...

    Also read: Artists reclaim Karachi walls from hate graffiti"Then it's another criminal who's free and can continue to plan attacks...

  • Initiative launched to paint walls of Peshawar

    PESHAWAR: The Tourism Corporation Khyber Pakhtunhwa (TCKP) and culture department have launched a project “Rang De Peshawar” to add colour to the dusty walls of Peshawar...

    Walls all around the city which were an eyesore earlier would be painted to create a pleasant and colourful environment, said a press release issued here on Thursday...

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