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  • An Indian ode: 'Dear girl from Pakistan, I hope it's not too late to say this...'

    Dear girl from Pakistan, I know it has taken me 69 long years but I hope it is not too late for me to say, Forget about what’s in the news, Tell me, how was your day?Lyrical and intense, Delhi-based slam poet Shivani Gupta's poem, ‘Dear Girl from Pakistan, is a tour de force...

    In the poem, she speaks to a nameless Pakistani girl, telling her that she's sorry for missed opportunities to interact and communicate...

  • Seven-year-old girl sues Pakistan government over climate change

    She and her father, who is also the environmental lawyer representing her in the Pakistan supreme court, were heartened when the chief justice overruled the rejection of her appeal by the apex court’s registrar, stating that minors can file a legal petition in the interest of public at large through an attorney...

    Ali is pleading that the exploitation of the particularly dirty lignite coal in Sindh province’s Tharparkar district will...

  • Nat Geo's famed 'Afghan girl' Sharbat Gula refuses to stay in Pakistan

    Nat Geo's famed 'Afghan Girl' Sharbat Gula on Tuesday refused to stay in Pakistan in response to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government's offer to stop her deportation from the country...

    A special anti-corruption and immigration court had earlier ordered the deportation of Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed “Afghan Girl” whose 1985 photo in National Geographic became a symbol of her country’s wars, after finding her guilty of illegally...

  • Will 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan' help this girl stranded in Pakistan?

    For the past 13 years, Geeta has been living in Pakistan, but she refuses to call it her home...

    Clad in a regular shalwar kameez, this Indian girl, who can neither hear nor speak, does not look any different from the other girls staying at the Edhi Shelter Home in Karachi’s old city area of Sharafa Bazar...

  • Nat Geo's 'Afghan girl' Sharbat Gula to be deported from Pakistan

    Nat Geo's famed 'Afghan Girl' Sharbat Gula is to be deported to Afghanistan after serving a 15-day jail sentence and paying a fine of Rs110,000, a special anti-corruption and immigration court in Peshawar ordered on Friday...

    He said she had served about nine days in jail since her arrest and will remain imprisoned for six more to complete her sentence before she is deported from Pakistan...

  • ‘Pakistan needs to do homework for Dancing Girl's return’

    Debate on Pakistan’s claim to the Dancing Girl of Moenjodaro is in the headlines these days...

    The director general of the Pakistan National Museum of Arts, Jamal Shah, recently said the country would seek Unesco’s [United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation] help to get possession of the bronze statuette that has been in India’s possession for the past 70 years...

  • Girl moves SC to have her surname changed to 'Pakistan'

    The Supreme Court on Thursday heard a girl's unusual request to have her surname changed to "Pakistan" and to have her father's name removed from her government documents...

    He said that according to the law, a father is the head of a household and there was no space in the law of Pakistan or the religion to make such a change...

  • Italy asks Pakistan to extradite parents of missing teen girl

    Italy said on Thursday it had asked Pakistan to extradite the parents of a teenage girl suspected of having been murdered by her family after refusing an arranged marriage...

    has signed and sent to Pakistan the two extradition requests for the parents of Saman Abbas, who are under investigation for the murder of their daughter,” the justice ministry said on Thursday...

  • Girl injured by stray bullet

    LAHORE: A stray bullet injured a teenage girl when she was sitting on the rooftop of her house in the Kot Lakhpat area...

    Police said the bullet hit the girl in the neckShe was taken to the Lahore General Hospital where her condition was stated to be critical...

  • Juhi Chawla: item girl?

    What? You gotta be kidding me! Bollywood actress Juhi Chawla is doing a Kannada movie titled Pushpak Vimana in which she will do an item song as part of her cameo appearance...

    Juhi C, all of us know, no more plays the female lead (as in young dancing-around-the-trees heroine type roles) in Indian movies, mainly because she’s in her late-40s
  • Teenage girl gang-raped, poisoned in Muzaffarabad

    MUZAFFARABAD: A teenage girl was gang-raped and later poisoned by a group of men in a village here, police said Monday...

    After subjecting her to gang-rape, the attackers then poisoned the girl and abandoned her, thinking they had been successful in their attempt to kill the victim...

  • Kalash girl says she converted to Islam of her own volition

    PESHAWAR: The dispute over conversion to Islam of a Kalash girl was resolved on Friday when 14-year-old Reena recorded her statement before a judicial magistrate, saying she had converted out of her free will, according to a government official...

    On Thursday, the girl’s decision to embrace Islam sparked a clash between the Kalash tribe and members of the Muslim community in Chitral’s Bamburate Valley, forcing police to use teargas to...

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