The mullahs appeared to have been angered as the secular Baluch protesters, who were raising slogans that said their veteran leader Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri, 89, is their prophet. "Mutalib Baluch, a Baluch youth...
The present government will be presenting its second budget on June 13. Before one analyses the expected policy stance for the 2009-10 fiscal year, it is essential to review the current policy stance pursued by the government. Pakistan’s balance of payments came under...
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By Jonah Newman Seventeen years ago, Iqbal Mevawalla left his comfortable job as a typist at a TV station in Karachi, Pakistan for an unknown future in the United States. When he arrived in Chicago, his first job...
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Remembering ‘The Message’ Nadeem F. Paracha Sunday, 10 May, 2009 | 01:42 AM PST "Some 30 years later after it was first released, The Message finally arrived in Pakistan and was...
"On Monday, April 4, veteran journalist Ahmed Rashid addressed a select crowd at Karachi’s Mohatta Palace Museum. Not surprisingly, the subject of his talk was ‘Afghanistan and Pakistan: Quest for Peace or...
The World Dance Day was celebrated in Pakistan yesterday with performances in the major cities including a unique dance-drama called 'Song of Mohen jo Daro' in Karachi's arts council auditorium. With violence...
At least 11 persons have so far been killed as violence erupted in various parts of Pakistan's commercial capital, Karachi, late Tuesday."As many as eleven people were killed and 35 others wounded as violent incidents continued to take place in different parts of Karachi late...
Wateen Connector is Exclusively for Wateen Telecom Users!This software was originally made on request, now being distributed publicly.
About Pakistan's Wateen TelcomWateen Telecom is a Internet Service Provider in...
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A suicide bombing at a crowded Shiite mosque south of Pakistan's capital killed 22 people Sunday, the latest evidence of how security in the U.S.-allied nation is crumbling well beyond the Afghan border region where al-Qaida and Taliban fighters thrive.
The violence came as...
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Thirty years ago a feminist theatre movement came into being in Pakistan. Based in Karachi, the Tehrik-e-Niswan has used dance, drama and daring for raising its voice against injustices, in particular against...
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The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) led by twice-elected former prime minister is expressing serious fears of a possible bid on life of its top leaders -- former PM Nawaz Sharif and former Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif."The Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) has...
Donkey cart races in Karachi have been an old tradition, a unique event/sport anchored in Lyari - a town in the city's old part with over half a million people living there - mostly impoverished. Scores of tiny...
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Even though Pakistan is heaving a sigh of relief after signing the peace deal with Taliban in Swat Valley, new revelation have surfaced that Militants were given money for entering into Peace deal. ...
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Perhaps the best known poet in the classical Urdu poetry tradition of the 'ghazal' or love poetry is Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, popularly known as Mirza Ghalib. Today is his 140th death anniversary. Born in the...
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In a little while from now I am going to attend the showings of five short films at the arts council auditorium in Karachi. After an absence of two years, the seventh Kara Film Festival is back in the city as...
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