Benazir assassination case: ‘Suspects were Haqqania seminary students’
RAWALPINDI: An Anti-Terrorism court (ATC) on Thursday recorded the statement of another witness in former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s murder case. ATC-I Special Judge Pervez Ismail Joya recorded...
View ArticleProperty transfer scam: Two CDA officials held
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Thursday arrested five accused including two Capital Development Authority officials after a court cancelled their pre-arrest bail. The suspects,...
View ArticleCommitment reiterated: Victory only option in fight against terrorism, CM
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Thursday that eradicating terrorism, religious extremism and sectarianism was a national mission. He was chairing at a meeting convened to review steps...
View ArticleIs privacy dead?
“I am not a crook.” This infamous statement was broadcast over live television by US President Richard Nixon during the 1970s when he was suspected to be involved in spying on rival party campaign...
View ArticleSocial taboos: ‘Sex education for adolescents is crucial’
LAHORE: Health experts and journalists on Wednesday stressed the need for educating children about physical changes they go through during adolescence and how to deal with them. They were speaking at a...
View ArticleTransparency: ‘Hold Senate polls through show of hands’
LAHORE: Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah of Lahore High Court on Thursday sought a reply from the federal government on an application seeking the court’s directive for holding Senate elections through...
View ArticleStubborn citizens: Leh dredging efforts undercut by continuing dumping
RAWALPINDI: Although dredging of Nulleh Leh is being carried out by the Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa), residents of nearby areas are cancelling out any gains by continuing to dump waste in the...
View ArticleSlain doctor: PIMS cardiac centre to be named after Dr Malik
ISLAMABAD: The cardiac centre at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) will be named after the late Doctor Shahid Nawaz Malik who was shot by unidentified attackers at the hospital...
View ArticleAllama Iqbal Shield: Defence varsities shine at declamation contest
ISLAMABAD: National Defence University (NDU), National University of Modern Languages (NUML) and National University of Science and Technology (NUST) on Friday won the second round of the 17th annual...
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Music duo Daft Punk unmasked and preserved
NEW YORK: When sculptor Xavier Veilhan persuaded Daft Punk to come to his studio, the artist, in the words of one of the duo’s songs, got lucky. The ever-masked electronic musicians finally took off...
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Sindh agrees to push ahead with barrage rehabilitation
HYDERABAD: The Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) has given the green light to the $211 million project for the rehabilitation of Guddu Barrage, the first upstream irrigation structure on the...
View ArticlePakistan startup cup: Four teams make it to top 25
LAHORE: Four teams from the LUMS Centre for Entrepreneurship (MARO Tandoors, Fictive Lab, Appify System and H&O Solution) made it to the top 25 of the second Pakistan Startup Cup, which was...
View ArticleBusiness association: Pak-Turk body to open office soon
FAISALABAD: Pak-Turk Businessmen Association (PTBA) Secretary General Nida Yilmaz has said that the association’s office will start functioning in Faisalabad shortly. Yilmaz said this during a...
View ArticleTraining for rural youth stressed
ISLAMABAD: Minister for National Food Security and Research Sikandar Hayat Khan Bosan on Friday said that the government would start skill-training programmes for rural youth to bring them into the...
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Shown the door: Govt redoubles efforts to remove Afghan prayer leaders from...
PESHAWAR: The provincial government has directed Afghan prayer leaders who lack proof of registration (PoR) and other documents to validate their stay in the country to return to Afghanistan or face...
View ArticleIs IS a threat to Pakistan?
The meteoric rise and popularity of the Middle Eastern terrorist group the Islamic State (IS) has, in one way or the other, inspired militant groups in Pakistan. However, academic analyses, policy...
View ArticleLawyers’ politics: Ahsan Bhoon group wins bar election
LAHORE: Candidates affiliated with the Ahsan Bhoon Group won election to all four offices of the Lahore High Court Bar Association according to the unofficial results announced on Saturday. They...
View ArticleLoudspeaker misuse: Lal Masjid naib khateeb booked
ISLAMABAD: The police on Friday booked the naib khateeb of Lal Masjid for misusing the loudspeaker during Friday’s sermon, said a police official. The Aabpara police registered a case against Amir...
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An evening with Naseeruddin Shah
I am an unabashed admirer of contemporary Iranian films and those Indian motion pictures that, for want of a better phrase, have been described as middle or parallel cinema or just art films. If a...
View ArticleMurder mystery: ‘Friend’ confesses to killing aspiring model
LAHORE: A woman suspected of killing an aspiring model on Saturday confessed to murder. Investigations SSP Rana Ayaz Saleem told The Express Tribune that Tooba’s friends Farooqur Rehman and Zeeshan...
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