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News for Tuesday, 25 Jan 2011

The parliament

A visit to the parliament, that aggregation of our teeming millions, housed in two halls across each other in a building in Islamabad can be awe-inspiring. Nothing can inspire a...

Politics and Islam

The relationship between Islam and politics is not a new issue. However, this attracted a renewed interest after a large number of religious leaders based in mosques and madrassahs as...

Urban development

Satellite imagery is a beautiful thing in civilian hands. Never before has it been possible to get a birds eye view of ones country and zoom in on blotches of...

Police confirm Lahore blast was suicidal

LAHORE - Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Aslam Tareen confirmed that the blast in a mourning procession near its concluding point at the Karbla Gamay Shah was suicidal in nature.

Karachi suicide blast claims 2 lives

KARACHI - A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden motorbike into a police van at Malir in Karachi, killing at least two persons and wounding four others, private TV channels reported...

4 cops among 13 killed in Lahore suicide blast

LAHORE - At least four security personnel among 13 people were killed and 52 others injured in a suicide bomb explosion in a mourning procession near its concluding point at...

Assassins targeting politicians, journalists arrested

ISLAMABAD - The law enforcement agencies have arrested terrorists who wanted to kill political leadership as well as journalists, said Rehman Malik, the federal minister for Interior Affairs.
Speaking with...

Think ‘Pink’

Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk has a paunch. Booker Prize winning novelist Kiran Desai has slender legs. Travel writer Rory Stewart is super tall. Jon Lee Anderson is a bear. Vikram...

Naming a nation

Seventy-eight years ago this week, a young Indian Muslim introduced a new word to the world, a word that is now a nation.

When Choudhary Rahmat Ali Khan published...

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