‘Govt to hold high-level meeting next week to tackle RAW’s activities in...
The federal government has decided to hold a high-level huddle next week to take major decisions to ‘monitor’ and ‘tackle’ the activities of India’s premier intelligence agency RAW in Pakistan, BBC...
View ArticleEyeing end to sanctions, Iran steps up Cannes presence
CANNES: Iran has significantly stepped up its presence at the cinema market of the Cannes Film Festival this year as Tehran opens up to the world ahead of a possible suspension of Western sanctions....
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Sonam Kapoor all set to make a big splash at Cannes
As expected, Sonam Kapoor, one of India’s top fashionistas, amped up the fashion quotient at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival. Sonam’s sister Rhea Kapoor shared photographs of the actress on the hotel...
View ArticleFrench mayor claims Islam will be banned from France by 2027
A French mayor, who claimed that Islam will be banned from the country by 2027, is facing expulsion from France’s main opposition conservative party after rightists rejected his calls as...
View ArticleThe catch of a lifetime
KARACHI: It’s 1:45am and the bass of music playing in a two-storey house on the street steers us in the right direction. “And we twist. We twist. We twist …,” from the film Love Aaj Kal, plays,...
View ArticlePope meets ‘angel of peace’ Abbas ahead of landmark accord recognising Palestine
Pope Francis met Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Saturday, calling him “an angel of peace,” days after the Vatican said it was preparing to sign its first accord with Palestine to the anger of...
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Deforestation: Stop the FALL
While Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa often makes headlines for terrorism, suicide bombings and other acts of violence, a little known fact about the province is that it is home to 1.3 million hectares of forest...
View ArticlePope creates first Palestinian saints
VATICAN CITY: Two 19th-century nuns on Sunday became the first Palestinians to gain sainthood during an open-air mass celebrated by Pope Francis in St Peter’s Square attended by Palestinian president...
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Egypt hangs six convicted Islamist militants
CAIRO: Egyptian authorities Sunday hanged six men convicted of killing soldiers, police said, ignoring appeals to spare them amid allegations two of them had been in custody at the time of their...
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Traces of blood and pork: UK supermarket apologises for wrongly-labeled...
UK supermarket Aldi has apologised to customers for selling Black Pudding Pakora erroneously labeled as Halal despite containing pork. The product contained traces of pork blood and pork skin, both...
View ArticleSaudi beheads Pakistani, 84 executions in 2015
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani sentenced to death for drug smuggling on Sunday, bringing to 84 the number of executions in the ultra-conservative kingdom this year, the interior ministry said....
View ArticleOnly one extortionist left in Karachi, will be apprehended soon: Sindh CM
Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah claimed on Sunday that the government has completely eliminated extortion from Karachi, adding that “only one extortionist is left” and would be apprehended soon....
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Cannes: Outside the film festival
Thinking of ‘Cannes’ usually projects images of celebrities on the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival. One tends to almost forget the beautiful French Riviera and all that it offers outside the...
View ArticleFrench Protestant church allows gay marriage blessing
PARIS: France’s United Protestant Church (EPUdF) voted on Sunday to allow pastors to bless same-sex marriages, two years after Paris legalised gay nuptials amid protests backed by the majority Roman...
View ArticleBahraini who performed Tawaf around Kaaba during 1941 floods dies
A Bahraini man, who shot to fame after being captured by a photographer performing Tawaf around a flooded Kaaba has died, aged 86. In one of the rare pictures of 1941 flood that submerged the Makkah’s...
View ArticleSuper 8 T20: Nauman, spinners inspire Sialkot to the final
FAISALABAD: The scoreboard at the Iqbal Stadium at one point read ‘Sialkot Stallions 115-1, Nauman Anwar 80’. Nauman was dismissed soon after, triggering a collapse, but his one-man show at the start...
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4 everyday things you have been doing wrong all your life
You might sometimes have a problem with complex tasks, but you can be sure that you have figured out how to perform the simplest things that get us through the day, right? Turns out, you may be wrong....
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Virat Kohli gets ‘unofficial’ BCCI warning for mid-match date with Anushka
The BCCI has reportedly issued an ‘unofficial’ warning to Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli for meeting girlfriend Anushka Sharma during the rain delay in RCB’s IPL match against Delhi...
View ArticleFake diplomas, real cash: Pakistani company Axact reaps millions
Seen from the Internet, it is a vast education empire: hundreds of universities and high schools, with elegant names and smiling professors at sun-dappled American campuses. Their websites, glossy and...
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Ali Zafar’s dream to culminate on the heights of Deosai
KARACHI: Pakistani superstar Ali Zafar, who time and again has expressed his desire to produce a feature film, finally announced his dream project on his birthday, May 18. The actor is all set to...
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