— Evolving neighbourhood April 21, 2014 K. IQBAL Like Pakistan’s elections in 2013, high voter turnout is also the feature of ongoing elections in India and Afghanistan. It will be interesting to see how these heavily mandated governments perform in… Continue Reading →
The progressive Pakistani poet, Fahmida Riaz, recites a poem to an Indian audience comparing the rise of Hindutva in India with the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistan. Note the delight of the Indian audience and the “delicious” cultural affinity between Indian… Continue Reading →
Meena Menon, The Hindu, While the Pakistan government is planning to set up a media commission and repeatedly talks of the safety of journalists, mere assurances cannot set things right After the vicious gun attack on his car in Lahore… Continue Reading →
By Our Correspondent Published: March 27, 2014 “Yes, only two of my 10 children are good,” A mother’s response when she was told to have less children. DESIGN: SAMRA AAMIR KARACHI: Lack of proper family planning is a serious dilemma and… Continue Reading →
BS | Lahore April 1, 2014 Last Updated at 20:12 IST A Pakistani Christian man convicted for blasphemy today challenged his death sentence in the Lahore High Court. Sawan Masih was sentenced by additional district and sessions judge Lahore Chaudhry Ghulam Mustafa… Continue Reading →
Fifth & Sixth Aman Chaupal organized in New Delhi by Aaghaz-e-Dosti “The memory of Partition needs to become invalid now”: Aaghaz-e-Dosti, an initiative for Indo-Pak friendship (of Mission Bhartiyam-India & The Catalyst-Pakistan), organized its Fifth & Sixth Aman… Continue Reading →
MATEEN HAIDER Foreign Office spokesperson Tasneem Aslam.— File photo Published 2014-02-22 17:14:36 Following the death of a Pakistani prisoner in a prison in occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan has demanded of India to release on humanitarian grounds all such prisoners who… Continue Reading →
AYESHA AZFAR — File photo Updated 2014-02-20 12:32:24 THE body of Bhikha Lakha Siyal, the young Indian fisherman who died in a Pakistani jail in December, was finally sent home to his family last week. The delay in the return of… Continue Reading →
KARACHI: An Indian fisherman arrested more than a year ago for straying into Pakistani waters died in prison in Karachi on Tuesday after an illness, a senior jail official said. The man, named by jail officials as Kishore Bhagwan… Continue Reading →
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