RAWALPINDI: When a watchman of a women’s college was told by an unidentified motorcyclist that a gunman was on his way to the college, he sounded the emergency alarm and triggered a city wide panic, with students of the college running out to seek refuge in nearby streets, parents rushing to take their children home and traders closing down their shops for the day...
At about 10:10am on Wednesday, a motorcycle rider wearing a helmet...
RAWALPINDI: The garrison city on Friday got a third varsity for women after Government Viqarun Nisa Postgraduate College was upgraded to a university...
Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar announced the decision while speaking at a ceremony held at Viqarun Nisa college on Friday...
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Tuesday appointed Fauzia Viqar as Federal Ombudswoman for Protection Against Harassment at Workplace...
Ms Viqar is former member of the National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) from Punjab and played an active role for the betterment of the women and protecting their rights...
We were quite certain that the monument before us was not the mausoleum of Zeb-un-Nisa – the rebel Sufi poetess, daughter of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb – even though there was a board put up here, seemingly by the Archaeology Department, stating otherwise...
There is much historical evidence to suggest that Zeb-un-Nisa died in the Salimgarh Fort in Delhi, part of the Red Fort complex in India’s capital city, where it is said she had...
RAWALPINDI: While there are many outlets in the garrison city known for great food, Diva Restaurant stands out for its barbeque as well as its location...
Mohammad Taimoor, meanwhile, said the best thing about Diva Restaurant was its location...
LAHORE: As the Pakistan Peoples Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid have opposed the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s plan to stage a sit-in outside the prime minister’s Raiwind residence on Sept 24, the PTI has said that it will not lay siege to the premier’s house and will announce the ‘exact location’ of the sit-in in a few days...
“The party has not yet selected the ‘exact location’ of the sit-in...
ISLAMABAD: The chief operating officer and managing director of World Bank, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, underscored the importance of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), saying “Pakistan should effectively take benefit of its strategic location for achieving economic objectives"...
The Saudi officials who killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi in their Istanbul consulate must reveal the location of his body, Turkey's president said on Friday in remarks that were sharply critical of the kingdom's handling of the case...
What Trump called "one of the worst cover-ups in the history of cover-ups" was revealed to the world by Turkish leaks of information, including references to purported audio recordings of the killing,...
However, the ruling party remained unable to decide the location of the sub-secretariat during the past 18 months though it formed a committee to take a decision after coming to power...
The analysis of location data from billions of Google users’ phones is the largest public dataset available to help health authorities assess if people are abiding with shelter-in-place and similar orders issued across the world to rein in the virus...
Google said it published the reports to avoid any confusion about what it was providing to authorities, given the global debate that has emerged about balancing privacy-invasive...
ISLAMABAD: A Senate committee on Monday was informed that the area that was being used by the management of Monal Restaurant would be converted into a Visitors Information Centre for children’s education and awareness on protection of wildlife...
The Monal Restaurant was built by the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and leased it out to a private firm for 15 years
Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Parvez Elahi on Tuesday accused Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah of using the Intelligence Bureau (IB) to “trace the location” of legislators with the intent to influence them ahead of the chief minister’s election on July 22...
The Punjab Higher Education Department on Friday ordered the creation of two committees to probe the death of a 20-year-old university student whose body was found in a hostel in Rawalpindi's Government Post-Graduate College for Girls on Friday...
The source claimed that Fatima had died to the negligence of the college administration...
In a densely populated part of the city stands a 104-year-old building, now the Government Postgraduate College Asghar Mall, which bears the marks of the historical pluralism of Rawalpindi...
In 1948, the building became the first government-run college in the Rawalpindi division...
Marlon James’s Booker prizewinning novel A Brief History of Seven Killings is a fantastic attempt at recounting the attack on Marley through a variety of eccentric, rowdy and colourful characters that provide, to a reasonable extent, a clear, albeit bloody, insight into the violence-stricken Jamaica of the 1970s and ’80s (the story moves further ahead)...
Here’s how A Brief History of Seven Killings moves into first gear by virtue of...