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  • Moti Bazaar ? The crowning jewel of Pindi’s marketplaces

    Moti Bazaar is at least 120 years old...

    “From newborns’ clothing to anything you would need for a wedding, you can get everything at Moti Bazaar – that’s what it’s famous for,” explains a trader from the market, who is also the spokesperson for the supreme council of Rawalpindi traders...

  • Aimal Wali demands action against those who ‘resettled’ militants in Pakistan

    PESHAWAR: Awami National Party provincial president Aimal Wali Khan has demanded that those who took the decision of resettling militants in Pakistan should be taken to task...

    “The security agencies have admitted bringing the militants back to Pakistan from Afghanistan during the rule of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government was a wrong decision, so those who took the decision should be punished,” he demanded in a video message...

  • Convict in Wali Khan Babar murder appeals against death sentence

    KARACHI: Convicted murderer Faisal Mehmood, alias Faisal Mota, who was sentenced to death for the murder of journalist Wali Khan Babar, submitted an appeal to challenge his death sentence on Tuesday at the Sindh High Court (SHC)...

    On January 13, 2011, GeoNews journalist Wali Khan Babar was going home from his office when he was shot dead in Liaquatabad, Karachi...

  • Faisal Mota challenges death sentence in Wali Babar murder case

    KARACHI: A worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Faisal Mehmood alias Mota, on Tuesday petitioned the Sindh High Court against capital punishment handed down to him by an antiterrorism court in the Wali Khan Babar murder case...

    Faisal Mota was sentenced to death in absentia by an ATC in March 2014 for masterminding the 2011 murder of television journalist Wali Babar in the city...

  • Guru Nanak, Wali Qandhari and other stories about how Hasan Abdal got water

    Overshadowing the vast complex gurdwara of Panja Sahib, one of the most popular Sikh shrines, associated with Guru Nanak and located in the city of Hasan Abdal in Pakistan, is the tallest mound in the region, rising high above its other shorter cousins...

    This year as well, when Sikh and other devotees of Nanak come to Pakistan to participate in his birthday celebrations, Gurdwara Panja Sahib will be one of the places pilgrims will be...

  • Asfandyar, Naseem Wali bury the hatchet

    CHARSADDA: Awami National Party central president Asfandyar Wali Khan and veteran politician Begum Naseem Wali Khan have finally reconciled and decided to take forward the philosophy of Bacha Khan jointly...

    Naseem Wali Khan, widow of late Abdul Wali Khan, announced to merge her faction Awami National Party-Wali (ANP-W) into ANP after she set aside her difference with ANP central president and her stepson Asfandyar Wali Khan...

  • Abdul Wali Khan University qualify for regional final

    ISLAMABAD: Abdul Wali Khan University of Nowshera reached the North region final of the Red Bull Campus Cricket after a narrow win against Abbottabad’s Hazara University here at the Comsats Ground...

    The target was chased down after some hiccups by the Abdul Wali Khan University outfit...

  • SHC to rehear Faisal Mota's appeal in Wali Babar murder case in September

    The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday set September 21 as the date for rehearing of the appeal filed by Faisal Mehmood, alias Mota — the primary accused in the Wali Khan Babar murder case — against the death sentence awarded to him by an antiterrorism court...

    The Larkana bench of the SHC had earlier reserved judgement on the appeal filed by Faisal Mota, who was awarded a death sentence in absentia, by an anti-terrorism court (ATC)...

  • Spotlight: The Shakespeare-wali

    She was last month in Pakistan to take part in the Lahore Literature Festival, where she had two sessions, one where the culinary side to her career was discussed and the other where she narrated how Shakespeare Wallah appeared on the celluloid...

    At the LLF someone called the 82-year-old performer ‘Shakespeare wali’, since her entire career has been punctuated with playing characters created by the Bard...

  • Footprints: Mere saamne wali sarhad par

    Pakistan comes in for some ribbing, too, mostly aimed at the rocky history of the country’s democracy and the figure of the Pakistan-based terrorist...

    But the ATD song Mere saamne wali sarhad par, kehtein hain ki dushman rehta hai has already elicited a critical Pakistani rejoinder, ‘Aisi Taisi Hypocrisy’, urging Indians to swap easily-made bhai-chara promises for a more honest estimation of popular views on either side...

  • Tribute paid to late Pashto poet Raj Wali Khattak

    MINGORA: The writers, poets and intellectuals paid tribute to renowned Pashto poet, writer , scholar and critic Dr Raj Wali Shah Khattak for his services and contribution to the Pashto literature here on Friday...

    Chief guest Sadullah Jan Barq said that Raj Wali Khattak was in the top-ranked literary personalities of Pashto literature...

  • Nasim Wali calls for unity of Pakhtuns, Fata-KP merger

    PESHAWAR: Awami National Party-Wali (ANP-W) chairperson Begum Nasim Wali Khan has demanded immediate merger of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...

    Speaking at a rally organised by her party in connection with the death anniversaries of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Bacha Khan) and his son Khan Abdul Wali Khan and late nationalist poet and former Awami National Party president Ajmal Khattak, the elderly leader...

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