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Sixty-six shades of green
-Illustration by Tahir Mehdi.Our political discourse is dominated by two competing narratives of the recent history of Pakistan. Each claims to be ideologically rooted. The dominant one describes Islam...
View ArticleStudents to explore filmmaking with Google Glass
Los Angeles - Beauty is in the eye of the Google Glass wearer.At least that's what the Internet search giant hopes a handful of young filmmakers will discover. Google is enlisting film students from...
View ArticleDangerous labour: The little-known 'e-waste' phenomenon
RAWALPINDI: Akash Ali is a nine-year-old labourer who works at a warehouse on Rawalpindi’s College Road. He suffers from asthma, but he seems unaware of the health and environmental hazards attached to...
View ArticleTwo killed in Peshawar warehouse explosion
PESHAWAR: At least two people were killed and two others were injured when explosive material blew up at a warehouse in Peshawar’s Ring Road area on Tuesday, DawnNews reported.According to police,...
View ArticleJolie is now the highest earning US actress
NEW YORK: Angelina Jolie, who will next be seen on the big screen in the film "Maleficent," is Hollywood's highest paid actress with estimated earnings of $33 million in the last year, according to...
View ArticleVideo: Gas plants explodes in Florida
15 workers missing after a propane gas plant explodes in central Florida. – Video by Reuters
View ArticleVideo: At least 35 injured as two trains collide in Switzerland
Two trains collided head-on in Switzerland on Monday evening, injuring about 35 people, five seriously, police said. – Video by Reuters
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Discovering Carlos Castaneda
All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!I discovered Carlos Castaneda in 1991 when I was 20 years old. I had already spent about a year in Zagreb, the capital of the...
View ArticleFour suspected militants killed in Quetta operation
QUETTA: Four suspected militants were killed Tuesday morning during an operation by police and other law enforcement agencies in Bakra Peri area of Quetta, the capital of militancy-hit Balochistan...
View ArticleIndian court says BCCI probe panel "illegal”
NEW DELHI: An Indian court ruled Tuesday a probe ordered by the country's cricket chiefs into a betting scandal was illegal, causing further trouble for cricket head N. Srinivasan, reports said.The...
View ArticlePTI contested poll to not leave open field for PML-N candidate: Imran
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday said that his party contested the Presidential election after consultation as it did not want to leave an open field for the...
View ArticleZardari vows to revamp PPP after presidential tenure
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari Tuesday vowed to revamp his Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) after stepping down as president of the country on September 9.Highly reliable sources in the...
View ArticleIsraelis, Palestinians to strive for deal in nine months: Kerry
WASHINGTON: Israeli and Palestinian negotiators agreed on Tuesday to meet again within the next two weeks, aiming to seal a final peace deal in nine months, US Secretary of State John Kerry said.The...
View ArticleRoad accidents kill 24 in Karak, Nawabshah
PESHAWAR: At least 24 people, including women and children, were died in two separate traffic accidents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Karak and Sindh's Nawabshah towns in Pakistan on Tuesday. At least 17...
View ArticlePoliceman killed as militants target polio workers in Balochistan
QUETTA: Armed militants attacked a polio team in Pishin town of Balochistan on Tuesday. Abdullah Khan, a police official said militants killed a policeman guarding polio workers in the Pishin bazaar...
View ArticleManning guilty of espionage but not 'aiding enemy'
FORT MEADE: A US military judge convicted Bradley Manning of espionage on Tuesday, leaving him facing a lengthy jail term despite clearing him on the most serious charge that he 'aided the...
View ArticleNew DRS feed to be trialled in third Ashes Test
MANCHESTER: This week's third Ashes Test will see the International Cricket Council (ICC) trial an independent television feed with the aim of improving its controversial Decision Review System.DRS,...
View ArticleEight militants, two soldiers killed in Darra Adamkhel clash
DARRA ADAMKHEL: Eight militants have been killed while two security personnel died as militants launched an attack on a border post in Darra Adamkhel late on Tuesday night.Military sources said that...
View ArticleD I Khan jailbreak: Police arrests suspected “Punjabi Taliban” commander
PESHAWAR: Police on Monday claimed to have arrested a suspected “Punjabi Taliban” commander involved in Dera Ismail Khan jailbreak last week, DawnNews reported.According to official sources, the...
View ArticlePakistan goes on high alert amid potential terrorist attacks
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani security forces scoured the Margalla hills surrounding the capital Islamabad and sent additional units to protect key installations on Monday amid tightened security across the...
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