Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini: A father’s lament of the barbarity we call...
“My dear Marwan, I look at your profile, In the glow of this three-quarter moon, my boy, Your eyelashes like calligraphy, Closed in guileless sleep. I said to you, ‘Hold my hand. Nothing bad will...
View ArticleIs Pakistan’s N-CPEC+ vision finally beginning to take shape?
Pakistan’s unique geostrategic location at the crossroads of East, South, West, and Central Asia enables it to function as the “Zipper of Eurasia”, as I wrote over half a decade ago in September 2015...
View ArticlePTI criticises CM, police on rising street crimes
PTI members in the Sindh Assembly, Raja Azher and Faheem Khan, reached a private hospital to visit Faizan, who was shot and injured by dacoits. They condemned the incident, criticised the Sindh...
View ArticleCourt seeks arguments in Durrani’s case
Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani on Thursday said that he has been appearing in the case of assets beyond means for the past four years. “It is good news that finally the court has sought...
View ArticleCM gives police 15 days to eliminate criminals
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has directed the law enforcement agencies to speed up targeted operations against terrorists and purge the city of street criminals through coordinated efforts....
View ArticlePTI proposes new policing model for Karachi
The Parliamentary Leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in the Sindh Assembly, Khurram Sher Zaman has proposed a separate police force for Karachi on the model of metropolitan police. Zaman called...
View Article‘People have no fear of traffic police’
The Sindh High Court (SHC) while giving remarks on the petition related to ban on the entry of heavy traffic in the city during daytime, said that there is no sense of the existence of traffic police...
View ArticleAll set for Christmas today
The Christian community is all set to observe their religious festival of Christmas across the country today. A series of mid-night masses was held in all the churches in the city on Saturday night....
View ArticleCase record sought on Daniya’s bail plea
A district and sessions court has directed the Investigating Officer (IO) in a case related to the release of "obscene" video clips of the late politician and TV personality Dr. Aamir Liaquat Hussain...
View ArticleLiteracy centres set up for women cotton pickers
The Sindh Community Foundation (SCF) has set up five literacy centres for women cotton-pickers in Matiari district of Sindh in order to improve basic literacy among the rural women. The initiative has...
View ArticleSHC orders FIR against squatters in land-grab case
The Sindh High Court (SHC) has ordered registration of an FIR against the occupier of the State Bank of Pakistan Cooperative Housing Society land in KDA Scheme 33 while directing the Deputy...
View ArticleMob lynches robber, injures accomplice
A group of citizens lynched a suspected robber and injured another during a robbery bid in Orangi Town on Saturday. According to the SHO of Pakistan Bazaar police station Riaz Ahmed Bhutto, two...
View ArticleAll students in intermediate exams fail
Surprising results of intermediate board exams have come out which show all the students of 38 colleges and higher secondary schools have failed. These results portray the education system in Sindh has...
View ArticleLEAs ring alarms of possible terrorist attacks in city
Amid increasing incidents of terrorism in Pakistan, law enforcement agencies (LEAs) have expressed concerns over the possibility of terrorist attacks in Karachi. In this regard, the activities of...
View ArticleFive of a family hurt in gas heater blast
Five people including two children burnt and injured when the gas heater at their home exploded with a huge ball of fire. The explosion at the house in Gulshan-e-Mazdoor area of Baldia Town left head...
View ArticlePoor planning : Free textbooks’ scarcity perturbs students, teachers
The secondary school year in Sindh is nearly halfway through but some government schools’ students are yet to receive their free textbooks, which jeopardises their chances of passing the examinations...
View ArticleTackling fake news and threats to journalists
KARACHI. Journalism entails a certain level of risk and requires the courage to speak truth to power, veteran journalist Mazhar Abbas said during a discuss on the Pakistan’s media landscape on day 2 of...
View ArticleAttack widely condemned
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah personally monitored the operation against terrorists at the Karachi Police Office. According to a spokesperson, the chief minister lauded the courage of all...
View ArticleEducation key to progress: Dr Adeeb Rizvi
Progress is impossible without education and healthcare, prominent social figure and head of Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplant (SIUT) Dr Syed Adeebul Hasan Rizvi said at the inaugural session...
View ArticleWomen festival hopes to bridge gaps
This year's Women of the World (WOW) Festival will be on the theme of Ral Mal – a Seraiki phrase for coming together as a community. The festival, which is in its sixth year, will take place from March...
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