Rahim Yar Khan: Unusual rise in kidnappings
Law-enforcement agencies should launch a combined operation against criminals in Rahim Yar Khan district to curb the rising incidence of kidnappings, a report compiled by an intelligence agency has...
View ArticleResuming Hearings: SC constitutes six benches for 2011
The Supreme Court has issued its first list of cases of national level in 2011 while constituting six benches for resumption of hearings. A three member bench of the apex court will resume hearings of...
View ArticleLaw ministry sticks to its guns over $20 billion LNG deal
The law ministry has denounced the petroleum ministry’s preference for awarding a $20billion LNG contract to the transnational consortium GDF-Suez. Officials in the law ministry issued the second...
View ArticleCompounding the misery: Relief efforts halted in AJK
With the first snowfall of the season in upper Neelum and Jhelum valleys, Rawalakot and Haveli districts of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, most of the humanitarian organisations have halted their operations...
View ArticleIs there a leadership crisis?
The decision to divide India in 1947 was made after a great deal of effort by Quaid-i-Azam, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. During the discussions and deliberations for independence Jinnah suffered from a serious...
View Article‘No objection to IPL participation’
The foreign ministry said that there was no objection on Pakistan players participating in the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL). A spokesman for the Pakistan foreign ministry clarified...
View ArticleWrong end of the stick?
Since moving to England, well over two years ago, I continue to find it difficult to explain Pakistan to westerners. They know Pakistan as a volatile nuclear state reeling from the combined impact of...
View ArticleBlasphemy backtrack
It takes only a miniscule drop of rain to send the government scuttling for cover. The threat by religious parties to protest any change in blasphemy laws has lead to an immediate process of...
View Article‘Petrol bomb’ and other unfair labels
The heading is irresistible: “Government drops another petrol bomb”, equating it with the terrorists who kill the common man in Pakistan; or “New Year gift of the government to the people”, etc. This...
View ArticleSuhrawardy and Jinnah
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (1892-1963) was prime minister of Pakistan for 13 months. He lies buried today in the old High Court compound of Dhaka, alongside the graves of AK Fazlul Haq and Khwaja...
View ArticleIslamabad Capital Territory - Rural areas: plans aplenty, zero results
Hundreds of millions of rupees worth of development projects were planned for the rural areas of Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) in 2009 but were not completed. The incomplete projects include...
View ArticleMerging Jinnah hospital and SMC: Confused Sindh Medical College students call...
Students of Sindh Medical College (SMC) called off their protest on Saturday against the elevation of their college to the status of a university, saying that they felt as if they “were being played by...
View ArticleRooney tunes Manchester United’s win
Wayne Rooney scored his first goal in open play since March as Manchester United won away in the Premier League for only the second time this season with a 2-1 victory against West Brom. United,...
View ArticlePak Tea House
In his article published in this newspaper on May 8, 2010 titled “Tea, anyone?”, Ahmad Rafay Alam lamented the death of the historic Pak Tea House in Lahore. This was a chai khana where writers and...
View ArticleMissing Hauritz helped England: Swann
Australia’s decision to overlook top-line spinner Nathan Hauritz in the Ashes series had played into England’s hands, said spinner Graeme Swann. “I honestly don’t understand how Australian selection...
View ArticleGreat expectations
Romance, action, comedy, real life stories... Bollywood is geared up with an interesting line-up of releases in 2011, starring big names like Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan and Ajay Devgn who...
View ArticleUnwanted trash?
Recently, I read the following on someone’s Facebook page: “One man asked another, who was Muslim, why their women covered themselves up. The man smiled and got two sweets. He unwrapped the first sweet...
View ArticleTop trends: Spring/Summer 2011
Head-to-toe White The idea of donning white, head-to-toe, may strike panic into the hearts of many fashionistas. But those fears must be swiftly overcome as all-white looks cropped up in almost every...
View ArticleBlood on the dance floor
The debacle at the famed charity ball in Karachi on New Year’s Eve brought about a host of issues as security was breached and many sleazy men entered the venue as well as the dramatic collapse of the...
View ArticleTwitter Alert: Jemima Khan back to Jemima Goldsmith
We thought she had left Twitter until we realised she had only changed her Twitter name. Jemima Khan has finally come to terms with the reality and changed her Twitter handle from @JemKhan to...
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