Tribal clash: Dispute over land claims six lives
SUKKUR: Six people were killed while eight others were injured in a clash between the Mugheri and Boke tribesmen over government land in the Pakho village near Kamber on Thursday. According to sources,...
View ArticlePolling: Sindh University elects varsity syndicate members
HYDERABAD: The teachers of Sindh University have elected their representatives on the four seats of professor, associate professor, assistant professor and lecturer for the varsity syndicate in the...
View ArticleGerman court fines relatives for abducting gay Muslim
BERLIN: A German court fined the father and two uncles of an 18-year-old Muslim citizen for depriving him of his personal freedom when he was a minor in an attempt, the victim says, to force him into...
View ArticleKeeping it clean: WSSP to launch doorstep garbage collection project
PESHAWAR: The Water and Sanitation Services Peshawar (WSSP) is planning to devise a policy to prevent garbage accumulation on the city’s roads. It also has plans to launch a pilot project of doorstep...
View ArticleMaking a shift: Swabi University purchases land for new campus
SWABI: The University of Swabi has obtained 1,401 kanals of land in Ambar near the Peshawar-Islamabad Interchange for the construction of its new campus. A ceremony was held at the new site on...
View ArticleSix performances to showcase Pakistan at SXSW Music Festival 2015
If you are in Austin, Texas, this March, expect to catch a whiff of Pakistani music at the South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival. As many as six Pakistani groups are expected to line up at arguably...
View ArticleFashion Pakistan Week to strike again
KARACHI: Fashion Pakistan announced the schedule for Fashion Pakistan Week Spring/Summer 2015. The four-day premiere fashion event is scheduled to take place from March 31 to April 3. The Telenor...
View ArticleIrina Shayk blames ex-beau for lack of confidence
She’s one of the most sought-after women in the world, but Irina Shayk says her ex-boyfriend Cristiano Ronaldo didn’t make her feel that way. The 29-year-old Russian model, who split from the Real...
View ArticleChina held rounds of Taliban talks: Afghanistan’s Abdullah
NEW DELHI: China has held rounds of talks with the Taliban and asked the Islamist militants to hold direct talks with the Afghan government, the head of Afghanistan’s power sharing government said on...
View ArticleNetanyahu’s Iranian ‘hurrah’
The long and convoluted negotiations over Iran’s nuclear programme are expected to resume in Geneva, probably tomorrow. They were adjourned inconclusively earlier this month in Montreux, Switzerland,...
View ArticleRangers presented ‘drivers, cooks’ as wanted criminal: MQM
KARACHI: Two days after the Rangers arrested scores of people during a raid on Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) headquarter Nine-Zero, the party claimed that commoners were portrayed as dangerous and...
View ArticleCIA chief says social media ‘greatly amplifies’ terror threat
WASHINGTION: Social media and other technology are making it increasingly difficult to combat militants who are using such modern resources to share information and conduct operations, the head of the...
View ArticleLithuania says will not renew CIA prison parliamentary enquiry
VILNIUS: Lithuania’s parliament will not hold another parliamentary inquiry into alleged CIA prisons in the Baltic country after the US. Senate published a report on torture, the speaker of the...
View ArticleOn de-radicalising the youth
For a country, two-thirds of whose population is under the age of 30, Pakistan does precious little for its youth. As the country struggles to implement the National Action Plan (NAP) against...
View ArticleKnow your army: Programme enthralls dozens of students
LAHORE: Over 100 students and academics from the FG Degree College and the University of South Asia spent a day with troops at the Lahore Garrison on Friday. The event commenced with a wreath-laying...
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At the helm
With Senator Raza Rabbani’s uncontested election as Senate chairman on March 12, a PPP man takes control of the 104-seat Upper House of parliament for the third consecutive term. Senator Rabbani’s...
View ArticleCleaning up the Ganga
The cleaning of the Ganga has been on for the last 30 years and around Rs2000 crore have been spent so far, India’s Supreme Court said a few weeks ago, scolding this government. “Do you want to...
View ArticlePakistan Day parade: Anti-polio drive in capital delayed
ISLAMABAD: An anti-polio drive scheduled to begin in the Islamabad from Monday has been postponed due to a shortage of security personnel to protect vaccinators. Most security officials have been...
View ArticleViolators in the dock: Two clerics booked for misusing loudspeaker
RAWALPINDI: Rawalpindi police have booked two prayer leaders for violating the ban on loudspeaker use. One of the case was registered in Mandra and the other on Rawat. Mandra police registered a case...
View ArticleConsumer rights day: ‘Increase in obesity rate worrisome’
ISLAMABAD: Due to lack of awareness, most Pakistanis are consuming high-energy but low quality food, which is either leading to malnutrition or obesity. “An increase in the obesity rate is worrisome,...
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