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ISLAMABAD: The melody queen of Ghoonghat utha loon, kay ghooghat nikaloon and living legend in Lollywood playback singing, Zubaida Khanum came out of hibernation after two decades and found herself in a galaxy of hundreds of fans at National Art Gallery (NAG), where troika of promising young artists – Saira Tahir Noor, Sara Raza and Ali Abbas – sang her old songs.
Read More »Zubaida back to the tunes of Ghoonghatگھونگھٹ
Dhoke Paracha inferno catches Capital police off guards
By Vidya Rana
ISLAMABAD: Quite surprisingly, the Capital police and the city administration were unaware of the existence of a terminal of trucks for NATO supplies, which were attacked on Tuesday night by militants killing seven and injuring four persons.Read More »When trucks fly in air like dry grass blades
Just a few days before the World Environment Day, the Punjab government has announced a scheme to grant the land reserved as forests and protected by law for agricultural purposes. With less than 5 per cent of Pakistan’s surface having forest cover, this new initiative is like a slap in the face of the environmentally conscious.Read More »Protecting the environment-Ahmad Rafay Alam
ALI SUKHANVER
In the streets of Pakistan it is very easy to find a lot of youngsters saying, “If war is the last option, we must go for it”. The hatred and disliking for the USA in Pakistan is growing like a wild fire. Most of the people are of the opinion that it is none but the USA behind all the problems the people of Pakistan have been facing for the last many years. Increasing terrorist activities multiplied by all time growing number of drone attacks are undermining the whole social, economic and political set up of Pakistan. People of Pakistan are in such an agony that now they are ready to Do or Die instead of listening to the song Do More, Do More.
ISLAMABAD: India ‘registered’ a great ‘success’ on Thursday when it ‘nabbed’ a flying white pigeon in bordering city Amritsar and declared it was suspected to be on a ‘spying mission, Indian police said.Read More »India arrests Pak spy ‘pigeon’جاسوس کبوتر
Ahmad Rafay Alam
With the completion of the latest package of the Lahore Ring Road, you can traverse the northern parts of the city and get from the airport to Ravi Road in fifteen minutes. All is changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.Read More »A terrible beauty
By Amar Guriro
KARACHI: With the growing consumerism, brand names of different commodities are not only attractive for the highly educated and rich – who select their shirts, shoes, wrist watches or fast food and beverages of certain brands – but also matters to the poor such as the war victims from the northern areas of Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan living in the temporary camps set in different areas of the city.Read More »Kalashnikov Surf, Pistol Soap, Talwaar Soap! What’s next?
During a hearing in the missing persons case the Ministry of Foreign Affairs while listing the number of Pakistanis in jails abroad told the court that the financial constrain was the major hurdle in their repatriation besides some other difficulties. Read More »MISSING PERSONS ABROAD-By Muhammad Javed
The Islamabad Traffic Police plans to launch an online registration system to facilitate people in getting hassle-free registration of their vehicles, said SSP Islamabad Traffic Police Dr Moeen Masood. During his visit to Islamabad Chamber… Read More »Online vehicle registration system in Islamabad
By Bushra Zulfiqar
The last two decades have witnessed an increasing emphasis on women’s empowerment as gender has moved at the centre of contemporary development debates. International commitments like the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) have brought women’s empowerment as an extremely important component of all development interventions across the globe. Women’s empowerment has been approached with a variety of rationales such as women’s empowerment through improved access to educational opportunities, women’s empowerment through participation in the political process and provision of economic opportunities including but not limited to micro-credit programmes. However the market or economic participation approach towards women’s empowerment is highly debatable.Read More »Women & Economy: The Politics of Empowerment