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By Haya Fatima Iqbal
KARACHI: The portrayal of religious minorities in textbooks prescribed by state-funded textbook boards is a grave indicator of what the country’s young people are being taught in terms of tolerance and respect for other religions.
Read More »Textbooks from the hate factory
In their two-room tin-roof house in one of the many shanty towns that dot Lahore, Ilyas and Nasim Masih and their seven daughters, aged three to 15, eke out an existence dependent on Ilyas’s meagre income as a day labourer.
Read More »Sold into sex work
ALI SUKHANVER
When the organizers of the SAARC conference in Bhutan were anxiously engaged in arrangements for their worthy guests from all over the world, all of a sudden, Madhoori Gupta, the Indian diplomat, became the focus of the ever eager and ever inquisitive world-media. She was arrested on charges of spying for Pakistan’s spy agency ISI during her stay in Pakistan. She was summoned to Delhi on the pretext of consultations regarding the 16th SAARC Summit in Bhutan and was handed over to the investigation agencies. Read More »MADHOORI-THE NEW HEROINE OF THE OLD STORY
The issue though may look from the naked eye, a waste of time but this senior citizen having served abroad for more than 25 years in a paramilitary uniform is of his firm view that the point should long had been taken serious note of.Read More »GHAR KEE MURGHEE-By Muhammad Javed
* Industrial executive says no one in Islamabad working on coherent plan to deal with crisis
* Banquet hall owner says new power-saving measures will not last long
Read More »Pakistanis living on the brink, and often in the dark
Army officials along with journalists take a tour in South Waziristan. – APP (File Photo)
KHAR: I had not expected Pakistan’s tribal areas to be so neat and so prosperous.
These are meant to be the badlands, mythologised as no-go areas by Kiplingesque images of xenophobic Pashtuns, jezail musket in hand, defying British troops from rugged clifftops.Read More »Breaking the myths of Pakistan’s tribal areas
The main traffic artery in Karachi, Sharae Faisal, is becoming a signal free, vehicles racing track, like a death trap for slower vehicles and for pedestrians.
KARACHI: The global footprint now exceeds the Earth’s capacity to regenerate by about 30 percent, and if the human needs continued at the same rate, they would need two new planets by 2030 to sustain life, said prominent environmentalist and WWF-Pakistan Regional Director Dr Ghulam Akbar on Thursday.
Read More »‘Humans may need two more planets by 2030’
LAHORE: Hundreds of people from across the city will take to the streets for the next four weeks in the largest ever campaign, ‘Tidy Lahore’, to clean up the streets and neighbourhoods of the metropolis. The campaign which is part of the Azm-e-Alishan movement was launched to coincide with the Earth Day, the annual day of action that seeks to raise awareness about environmental concerns.Read More »Lahoris join hands and brooms to Tidy Lahore
By Muhammad Javed
Irfan Sidduqi in his column entitled “new peaks of Pak Saudi relations” 18/03/2010 tried to leave no stone unturned to prove that the recent selection by the Saudi visiting team of about 1500 highly skilled experienced Pakistani Surgeons, doctors, nurses and other trained paramedical staff from Pakistan was a barometer how the Saudi Government “specially” loves and cares Pakistan a Muslim brother. Read More »FRIENDSHIP BAROMETER