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Thursday, September 20, 2012

OUR STAFF REPORTERS/AGENCIESISLAMABAD – The government has declared Friday a national holiday (Yaum-e-Ishq-Rasool) in honour of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and called for peaceful protests against a US-made film deemed insulting to Islam.The cabinet decided to make Friday an official day of ...

 

ISLAMABAD – Cash-starved government, acting upon the decision of the ECC, has ...

ISLAMABAD – Anti-Corruption Circle of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has ...

KARACHI - Protest continued in the metropolis on Wednesday outside US consulate and ...

LAHORE – Strong agitation by religious parties and common citizens over the ...

OUR STAFF REPORTERS/AGENCIESISLAMABAD – The government has declared Friday a national holiday (Yaum-e-Ishq-Rasool) in honour of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and called for peaceful protests against ...

PESHAWAR - At least 10 people were killed and 23 others were injured in a car bomb blast Wednesday on the Kohat Road in the provincial capital.Police sources and eyewitness said the explosive ...

KANDAHAR  - Bomb and gun attacks on police in southern Afghanistan’s two largest cities killed six people late Wednesday, including a child, officials said. A remote-controlled bomb, which was placed on a motorcycle, hit a police truck in district 14 of Kandahar city, killing three ...

BINOY KAMPMARKThe deceptive ways a loss in war is described can be contagious. Retreats are often regarded as odious, but sometimes necessary. These can either have the genius of the British spirit of tactical withdrawal, or a more laughable concept of an honourable peace. When that power tends to ...

BEIJING (AFP) - Anti-Japan protests in China over a bitter territorial row died down on Wednesday as authorities apparently sought to ease tensions on the ground, although political leaders maintained their rhetoric.There were no crowds outside the Japanese embassy in Beijing - the scene of mass ...

POLICE on Wednesday raided the headquarters of French magazine Closer in a reported attempt to find out the identity of the photographer who took pictures of a topless Kate Middleton.According to reports, officers arrived at the Closer offices in Paris at 10am (local time) as part of their ...

OPINIONS

Columns

Editorials

Letters

Last weekend, I attended a national conference organised under the auspices of the new Inter-University Consortium for Promotion of Social Sciences ...

The recent reaction of Muslim protesters to the Internet film mocking the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) is, to many Muslims, as legitimate as USA’s ...

“We keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we at last come to look upon them as virtues.”- HeineAs the next general ...

A few columns ago, I wrote about the various bird families that have made my premises their home. I deliberately left out one particular species on ...

The twin blasts in Karachi’s Hyderi Market, which killed eight people, also signalled a number of things. The first, because of where the ...

A US Congressman has introduced a bill in the House of Representatives which, if passed into law, would remove Pakistan from the major Non-Nato ally ...

Living up to his four-year practice, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif distributed prizes worth Rs 5.5 million among position holders in ...

The Supreme Court had in December last year ordered the Election Commission to revise faulty voter lists on writ petitions filed by Tehrik-i-Insaaf ...

This is apropos of Wapda Chairman Shakeel Durrani’s statement that power outages could not be overcome till 2018. ...

Regrettably, nowadays road accidents have become quite common in the federal capital, Islamabad. More people, in ...

Pakistan is one of the countries where state repression is rampant and law enforcement bodies have little respect for ...

The release of blasphemous video has not only caused overwhelming anguish, but also generated protests on a large ...

I feel really privileged to write about Molvi Abdul Haq (16 November, 1872- 16 August, 1961) as he was the real ...

REGIONAL

Lahore

Karachi

Islamabad

KARACHI - Protest continued in the metropolis on Wednesday outside US consulate and Karachi Press ...

KARACHI - Four MQM workers among 15 people were gunned down in separate incidents of target killing ...

KARACHI – Unidentified robbers made off with Rs 1.8 million from a bank within the remit of ...

KARACHI -  Police have registered an FIR against twin blasts occurred in Hydri Market on ...

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