Stocks add 351 points to overnight rally
KARACHI: The stock market staged another robust rally on Friday with the KSE-100 index adding 351...
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Pakistan1,351 people arrested in last 4 months during crackdown on electricity theft: Asad Umar
Finance Minister Asad Umar on Wednesday revealed that a total of 1,351 people were arrested, and 18,795 first information reports (FIR) registered, as part of a government crackdown against the theft of electricity over the past four months...
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ArchiveFrom my bookshelf: ‘Khuda Aur Mohabbat has led me to believe fiction is still popular in the country’
Q: What books are you currently reading?A: I am reading Khuda Aur Mohabbat by Hashim Nadeem which is a love story of a foreign educated man and a girl from a religious family...
The book has proved popular with the younger generation due to the simple presentation of a pure love story...
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ArchiveSahib, biwi aur …
Boy o boy, Salman Khan’s younger brother and film director Sohail Khan, who is also known for his appearance on a comedy TV show as a judge, comes across as a family ‘shamily’ type guy...
It turns out he is not!Apparently, Sohail K has (romantic) soft sport for actress Huma Quraishi because of which lately he has been showering her with lavish gifts -
PakistanJI leader chants roti, kapra aur makaan
Not only this, the right wing party head said the JI had political power to ensure the early provision of “roti, kapra aur makaan” or food, job and shelter for everyone in the country...
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PakistanSick of love triangles on TV? We love Faysal Qureshi's Mol for rising above
This is a man who keeps his own counsel, and resists defining his feelings for Emaan as love if it would mean ceding any part of his independence...
If there were only one reason to watch this serial, it would be Waqar’s Emaan: her dialogue delivery and expressions mold this character just as much as the writer’s dialogues, leaving the impression of a strong, level-headed young woman who meets life with joy and reason in equal...
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ArchiveFrom my bookshelf: ‘The history of Delhi is full of love, art, blood and sacrifices’
The history of the town is full of love, art, blood and sacrifices...
Q: Are there any classics you could not get through?A: I went through most Urdu classic dastaans during my stay in Lahore between 1989 and 1999 but I could not get through the Tilism-i-Hoshruba, the most powerful and well known of all dastans...
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PakistanAccountability court episode: Nisar too faced such situations but dared not protest, says Sana
LAHORE: The PML-N says what was done to Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal at the accountability court in Islamabad is nothing new as during the last four years this ministry has faced similar situations many times but avoided raising its voice against those behind such incidents...
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PakistanAccountability court episode: PML-N ‘confrontational mode’ riles Shahbaz
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif may not name those who in his view had ill-advised his elder brother to confront the military and judiciary but he and the like-minded group in the PML-N do want ousted premier Nawaz Sharif to revisit the policy in keeping with the demand of the day...
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PakistanPolice report reveals graphic details of Gandapur episode
PESHAWAR: With a local court granting bail to Provincial Minister Ali Amin Ghandapur in a case of election-related violence, a report by the district police of Dera Ismail Khan surfaced giving graphic details of the episode which had landed him in prison...
The minister, who was drunk, misbehaved with the female polling staff and tried to forcefully take the bags full of ballot papers, the police report alleges...
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PakistanAxact episode echoes in SC
ISLAMABAD: The ongoing episode of Axact allegedly awarding fake degrees echoed in the Supreme Court on Monday during the hearing of challenges to the 18th and 21st amendments...
Khawaja, while sitting on a 17-judge full-court Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk...
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PakistanPML-N group for probe into rally’s route change episode
GUJRAT: A strong group within the local chapter of the ruling PML-N has expressed concern and demanded a probe into changing the route of cavalcade of party chief Nawaz Sharif at the entrance to the Gujrat city...
Even Mr Sharif had expressed wonder and got his vehicle stopped for a while along GT Road bypass to inquire as to why the route was changed -
ArchiveEpisode or system?
Until Dec 31, 1966, persons convicted under Ebdo were required to retire from public life and make good any loss to the national exchequer that their actions might have caused...
The trial and disqualification of Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani as prime minister in 2012 is another episode a section of our society pinned hopes on for a corruption-free Pakistan...
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ArchivePAT protests ‘injustice’ in Model Town episode
LAHORE: The Pakistan Awami Tehreek staged a protest camp outside the Punjab Assembly here on Wednesday against what it called the government’s failure to do justice in the Model Town tragedy despite passage of a year...
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PakistanRobbers involved in traffic signal episode arrested
LAHORE: The Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) police claimed on Saturday to have arrested 10 members of a robbers’ gang, including the three involved in a daylight robbery at a traffic signal in Faisal Town...
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