HYDERABAD: Industrialists of Hyderabad and Jamshoro districts are caught between a rock and a hard place as the deadline of March 1 for disconnection of gas supply to captive power plants (CPPs) of export industry nears...
According to Adeel Siddiqui, Hyderabad-based vice-president of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry, millions were invested in CPPs...
The Supreme Court on Thursday asked who was responsible for allowing cement factories around the historic Katas Raj Temple to increase production, which has resulted in catastrophic destruction of the historic site...
Katas Raj is considered the second most sacred shrine of the Hindu religion...
Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar on Thursday regretted the government's inability to safeguard one of the Hindu community's most well-known places of worship, Chakwal's Katas Raj temple, and ordered that a committee be set up to probe the issue...
The CJP made the remarks during the hearing of a suo motu case taken up by the Supreme Court (SC) on the basis of media reports that the Katas Raj temple complex pond was...
CHAKWAL: The Katas Raj pond, which dried up last May, has remained dry despite the monsoon rains...
An ETPB employee said the water from the Katas Raj pond was once used to irrigate gardens of loquats in Choa Saidan Shah, while drinking water from the pond was supplied to Choa Saidan Shah town and the Waulah and Katas villages...
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday took notice of reports that the pond in the Katas Raj temple complex is drying out and ordered the concerned departments to submit a comprehensive report for the reasons behind the phenomenon within three days...
The Katas Raj temple complex is located near Kallar Kahar, approximately 100 kilometres by road from another important Hindu site, the Tilla Jogian complex...
CHAKWAL: As many as 84 Hindu pilgrims from India arrived at Katas Raj on Saturday...
Hindus visited the place to perform Ashnan (bath), in the pond at Katas Raj as part of their rituals...
Other Western movies to deal with the Raj era this year include “The Black Prince”, which recreates the life of Duleep Singh, the last king of Punjab, who was deposed and taken to Britain as a child, never to return to his homeland...
CHAKWAL: Sweety Dalvi and her husband Rama Chandra are visiting the Katas Raj from Bangalore for the first time...
“I was smitten by the amr kund (fabled pond) of Katas Raj when I saw pictures of it on the internet,” Ms Dalvi told Dawn...
LONDON: India captain Mithali Raj scored her sixth One-day International hundred as she led her side into the last four of the ICC Women’s World Cup during a crushing 186-run win over New Zealand in Derby on Saturday...
Raj made 109 in an India total of 265-7 that also featured Veda Krishnamurthy’s 70 off just 45 balls and Harmanpreet Kaur’s 60...
CHAKWAL: Having moved by the drying condition of the revered pond of Katas Raj, the Punjab government in collaboration with a cement factory has launched a de-silting drive to restore the pond to its original condition...
“The pond and the Katas Raj temples are our assets and the site is revered by Hindus...
DERBY: India captain Mithali Raj has warned England not to expect an easy contest when they come up against her side in the Women’s World Cup final on Sunday...
“As a team we are all very excited to be part of the final,” said Raj, reflecting on India reaching their first World Cup final since 2005...
CHAKWAL: In Hindu mythology, the fabled pond at the Katas Raj temples was formed by the tears of Shiva, who wept uncontrollably over the loss of his wife Sati...
Former Punjab governor retired Lt Gen Mohammad Safdar, whose native village Dulmial is six kilometers from Katas Raj, also blames the cement factory for creating an acute water shortage in the area...
VEHARI: Farmers launched the Kissan Raj Tehrik under the banner of the Pakistan Kissan Board (PKB) here on Thursday...
Unlike the norm of holding artist-centric exhibitions in commercial galleries, the (current) Chawkandi Art Gallery, Karachi, show “Journey of Passion” was collector specific...
Extracted from distinguished architect Habib Fida Ali’s extensive art collection “Journey of Passion” was compiled into an engaging assortment of colonial art by Fida Ali, Niilofur Farrukh and Zohra Hussain
IN his debut novel Karachi Raj, erstwhile critic Anis Shivani depicts a year’s worth of Karachi life as viewed from the differing perspectives of an American anthropologist and a couple of individuals living in the low-income district of the Basti...
If one takes a step back from the general plot machinations of the text one finds that Karachi Raj acts primarily as a set of colourful vignettes that generally revolve around...