CUPERTINO: Apple went small — cutting prices as well as screen sizes — unveiling a new iPhone and iPad aimed at reaching more customers and boosting replacements, at a low-key product unveiling on Monday...
The new iPhone SE will debut at $399 for US customers without a contract subsidy, a significant cut from the price of its larger iPhones...
The company also updated its iPad Mini with 5G connectivity and a reworked design that makes it look like the higher-end iPad Air and Pro models...
Apple also updated its base-model iPad with a new camera for working and learning from home...
She also said her family was planning to take the case to the International Court of Justice as the governments of Pakistan and Kenya would “never provide them justice”...
“The [alleged] signs of torture on Arshad Sharif shaheed invalidate Pakistan government’s stance that he was killed due to mistaken identity,” he tweeted...
Therefore, just as a sizeable segment of the common people of the West sees Muslims as barbarians and wishes to strike them, the people of Pakistan — at the behest of those who rule us — are not only waiting to attack the ones whom we are made to think are the real barbarians when they march to our frontiers, but are constantly spotting them within our folds in order to cleanse society and save the state...
As we approach the second birth centenary of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, he is being criticised to the extent of being condemned with renewed vigour from certain academic and religious quarters...
I experienced it twice in the last one month
But she was never alone, as the common people of Pakistan held her in high esteem...
She was the only politician ever in our history who brought together everyone who believed in democracy — ideologically in terms of the right and the left and geographically in terms of both the eastern and western wings of the then Pakistan...
They wanted to build a hospital in their native locale because their children had graduated from various medical schools in Pakistan and the United States...
This friend, a leading gynaecologist and obstetrician, has served needy patients across Pakistan for decades...
But literary references are a small part of this widely informative and insightful account of the establishment and evolution of railways in British India in general, and what now constitutes Pakistan in particular...
What makes Qazi’s book stand out is the blend of personal anecdotes and character sketches of relevant individuals, with hardcore technical details from tracks to engines, and a matter of fact description of the...
Terry Eagleton, one of the leading cultural critics and literary scholars of our times, comments on Irish society in one of his works, saying that literary realism never took root there and the frontier between art and politics was never exact...
At times, I find an uncanny resemblance between how Ireland and India were conceptualised, understood, portrayed and treated by the British who had colonised them both
Lately it has become fashionable for the affluent and the nouveau riche in metropolitan Pakistan to mock and denigrate the political workers, progressive ideologues, trade unionists and activist writers from the past who took part in various struggles waged across the country for both the democratic rights of Pakistani citizens and economic rights of the working people...
But why should that entail dismissing our predecessors and...
Frantz Fanon enjoys a special place in the minds and hearts of thinkers and activists belonging to the developing world, non-white races, oppressed nations and struggling classes...
He was among those pioneering thinkers of Pakistan who saw social democracy and constitutional federalism in their true spirit as the only ways to save this country and serve its people...
A career diplomat, after a short stint as a journalist, he retired from being Pakistan’s ambassador to Ireland in 2007...
We live in a society where for weeks, the headline news on television revolved around the patchy conjugal life of a British-Pakistani boxer...
At best, this man is marginally inspiring for some young sportsmen and his wife is one among a million fashion models found in the United Kingdom
Art has the large embrace and inherent capacity to divulge complex emotions...
It can rise above the mundane to make it sublime when at the same time it is delving deep into the most commonplace happenings and events
However, in Pakistan it is unfortunate that many of our poets and writers read less — if not in quantity then certainly in terms of variety — than their counterparts would do in other societies...
In Pakistan, it is about time we started gifting books again on all possible occasions...