By Anas Abbas
Ten years ago on a balmy, sunny day in Karachi, my father asked me to accompany him to a great seths house. People in Karachi sometimes gather at houses of major industrialists to see their impressive sacrificial animals, purchased for Bakra Eid.
I was only too eager to go...
When China reduced people in poverty by 220 million between 1978 and 2004, the world applauded this as the greatest poverty reduction in history. Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz and all other poverty specialists cheered.
India has just reduced its number of poor from 407 million to 269 million...
A Pakistani Army soldier at the site of a car bombing in June near a police station and market in Peshawar. At least 17 people died.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan Groups of Taliban fighters are spilling out of the tribal belt in northwestern Pakistan into the regions largest city, Peshawar, where...
Nearly 1500 people were killed in violent incidents in Karachi during the past six months.
717 people killed in terrorist attacks out of which 635 are Shia (834injured) during the past six months..
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He 'Strongly condemn killing of 8' people by BSF who attacked BSF camp.
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Clement Attlee on Netaji and Independence
P.V. Chuckraborty, former Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court "When I was acting as Governor of West Bengal in 1956, Lord Clement Attlee, who as the British Prime Minister in post war years was responsible for Indias freedom, visited India and...
Responding to the friendly overtures from Pakistan's new ruling party, a delegation of Indian officials is headed to Lahore on June 9 to offer natural gas supply through a pipeline to help ease the neighbour's energy crisis.
The decision, sources said, was taken at the top level on Monday...
Sikhs in the Freedom Struggle
K S Duggal
The last to lay arms and foremost to raise them against the British, the Sikhs of Punjab may not figure prominently in the galaxy of freedom fighters led by Mahatma Gandhi barring Shaheed Bhagat Singh, who, too, was consistently disowned by Bapu...
Kashmiris protest at killing of Sardar Arif Shahid
Protesters have taken to the streets in various parts of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, angry at the killing of a pro-independence Kashmiri leader.
Sardar Arif Shahid was shot dead by unidentified men near his home in Rawalpindi on Monday...
Its a good problem to have, but its still a problem for three men who have reportedly been deported from Saudi Arabia for being too handsome.
The men were visiting Saudi Arabia from the United Arab Emirates to attend the annual Jenadrivah Heritage & Cultural Festival in Riyadh. They...
When Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American upwardly mobile son of a retired senior Pakistan Air Force officer was picked up for the bombing attempt at New York Citys Times Square in the summer of 2010, it was seen as an aberration but it chipped at the comforting argument that youngsters take...