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PAF celebrates first anniversary of ‘Operation Swift Retort’

by Staff Report , (Last Updated 2 hours ago)

— Air chief says PAF lived up to legacy, again made mark through professional excellence ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) on Thursday conducted a ceremony at the Air Headquarters in Islamabad…

ECP completes arrangements for 2018 by-elections

by APP , (Last Updated October 8, 2018)

ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has completed all necessary arrangements for holding of bye-elections in 36 constituencies on October 14. According to an ECP official, the elections will be held for…

Columns

The moral devastation of the continued occupation

by Dr Alon Ben-Meir , (Last Updated 2 days ago)

The Israeli occupation does not satisfy any ethical theory Israel’s occupation of the West Bank defies the moral principle behind the creation of the state. Contrary to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s assertion, the…

Editorials

New AGP enters a minefield

by Editorial , (Last Updated 2 days ago)

Onerous task of clearing the legal mess Coming within days of his appointment as the new Attorney General of Pakistan (AGP), Barrister Khalid Javed Khan’s remarks would be widely welcomed by all…

Cartoons

Today’s Cartoon

by Syed Shahzeb Ali , (Last Updated February 21, 2020)

Foreign

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Spoiler: the politician is a douche

by The Tube , (Last Updated February 1, 2020)

I get it. Militaries the world over make PR films. One cannot hold this fare up to higher standards of art. It is, literally, propaganda. One cannot expect an American film, produced…

Sports

Lahore

Punjab advocate general resigns

by APP , (Last Updated 14 hours ago)

LAHORE: Advocate General Punjab Ahmed Jamal Sukhera on Wednesday tendered his resignation to the province’s governor. Sukhera did not mention any specific reason behind his decision to resign. The AG Punjab addressed…

Karachi

Former Karachi mayor Naimatullah Khan passes away

by Staff Report , (Last Updated 2 days ago)

KARACHI: Former Karachi mayor Naimatullah Khan passed away in the city on Tuesday after a long battle with illness. The former mayor was a longstanding member of Jamaat-e-Islami and the party’s naib ameer Dr…

Islamabad

Torkham border on high alert for coronavirus

by Staff Report , (Last Updated 17 hours ago)

PESHAWAR: Following Afghanistan’s confirmation of its first case of coronavirus, authorities at the Torkham border crossing point have begun screening people entering Pakistan in order to block the possible transmission of the…

Arts / Entertainment

Bilal Abbas’ stellar performance in ‘Pyar ke Sadqay’ swept us off our feet!

February 27, 2020

Being an avid drama buff, Pyar Ke Sadqay feels like a breath of fresh air. Thankfully it comes across as a refreshing change from the presently on-air drama serials based on a typical template showcasing (saas-bahu) fights, domestic violence, tragic...

Trump’s $1-per-tweet Pakistan-based freelance content writer gets 5 cent raise

February 26, 2020 BY The Dependent

WASHINGTON/WAZIRABAD – The one dollar per tweet earning Pakistan based Twitter content writer of US President Donald Trump this week was given a five percent hike in earnings, The Dependent has reliably learnt. The now 19-year-old freelance content writer from Wazirabad, who specialises in paraphrasing assignments, has been serving as Trump’s Twitter content writer for the past three years – the duration of the ongoing presidency. According to correspondence between White House officials and the content writer, whose name .....
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Spot-fixing racket suspends bookie for approaching Umar Akmal

February 23, 2020 BY The Dependent

LAHORE – The spot fixing racket working on the ongoing Pakistan Super league said on Friday it had suspended the ‘rookie’ bookie who approached Umar Akmal with immediate effect under its anti-corruption code. In its official message, the unnamed racket, anonymously declared, that the bookie, whose name can’t be disclosed, “cannot take part in any fixing-related activity pending the investigation being carried out by the group’s Anti-Corruption Unit.” The announcement came a day after Akmal’s Quetta Gladiators began their P .....
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Inaugural Fazl Aman Mela celebrates new symbol of leftist revolution

February 23, 2020 BY The Dependent

LAHORE – The inaugural Fazl Aman Mela, a congregation organised by the fans of the great revolutionary Fazl-ur-Rehman since the times of Zia, was organised at Open Air Theatre Bagh-e-Jinnah on Sunday. Scores of activists participated in the gathering held under the aegis of Fazl Aman Mela Committee, with different sessions of opportunistic political dialogue, scripture recitation and fatwa performances. The venue was also marked with Islamist flags, a symbol of the 2020 working-class revolution. The event resonated with intermittent slo .....
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FATF-shackled Jamaat-ud-Dawa urges youth wing to make most of Kamyab Jawan Program

February 23, 2020 BY The Dependent

LAHORE – The youth wing of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), alias Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), will take part in the upcoming hi-tech courses under ‘Hunarmand Pakistan’ to boost their skills for upcoming radical assignments. The courses, which will be offered by the NUTECH Skills Development Department (NSDD), and will include Computer Graphics (UI/UX), Cloud Computing, Robotics, Mobile App Development and IOT (Internet of Things), are being introduced as part of the government’s Kamyab Jawan Program, with the JuD hopeful of acquiring the requisi .....
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‘Last year’s Airforce jets were also unofficial,’ claims Indian government

February 23, 2020 BY The Dependent

BALAKOT/NEW DELHI – The group of Airforce jets, including a captured wing commander, have belatedly created controversy after participating in an aerial dogfight with Pakistan in February 2019. The participation came without any official permission or clearance by the Indian government, officials in New Delhi claimed on Thursday. A year after the aerial combat took place, India has now denied sending any jets to Pakistan, with the Indian Air Force (IAF) too washing its hands off the row by saying that it had not sent any aircraft or pilots .....
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Veteran playboy still using same pickup lines on everyone

February 23, 2020 BY The Dependent

ISLAMABAD – World renowned playboy, who has global following and outreach, continues to use the age old tactic of using the same pickup line on anyone and everyone he’s trying to woo, sources close to the veteran player have told The Dependent. Those within the entourage of the playboy, who continues to enjoy international fame and according to his lovers still has the rock star appeal, say that he has always been a firm believer in not fixing what is not broke. The playboy’s aides confirm that he has had a major success rate over t .....
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Govt inaugurates Special Explosion Zone in Quetta as part of Free Terror Agreement

February 23, 2020 BY The Dependent

QUETTA – Prime Minister Imran Khan inaugurated the Ehsanullah Terror Allowance City, a Special Explosion Zone (SEZ) under the Continental Pakistan Explosion Corridor (CPEC) and the Free Terror Agreement (FTA) with regional militant outfits, in Balochistan’s capital Quetta on Thursday. Addressing the groundbreaking ceremony of the SEZ, the prime minister dubbed the project a golden opportunity for terrorists in Pakistan and the SEZ the first step towards creating safe havens for local militants to continue their terror without impacting � .....
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Heartless bullies judging athlete on fitness, host on communication skills

February 22, 2020 BY The Dependent

KARACHI – Truly condemnable incidents of bullying were witnessed on the opening day of the fifth season of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) on Thursday, when two particular individuals were relentlessly targeted for shortcomings that were completely unrelated to their professions. The first instance was seen amidst the opening ceremony of PSL 2020, where the host was relentlessly mocked, most notably on social media, for basically lacking the required communication skills and speaking in a bizarre fashion. The heartless bullying first c .....
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NY Times under fire for also giving Haqqani regular sex column

February 21, 2020 BY The Dependent

The New York Times has come under fire after giving Sirajuddin Haqqani a weekly sex column in their print and online editions. The criticism follows the already considerable fallout over the paper giving space on its op-ed pages to the Deputy Leader of the Taliban. “We’ve seen this happen time and time again,” said Farishteh Soumayi, an Afghan women’s rights activist. “They become ‘the more equivalents of the founding fathers’, then they become the demons reporting to the Devil himself and then they become ‘reformed moderates.� .....
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Mother Tongue Day: BS be included as one of national languages, demand nation’s BSers

February 21, 2020 BY The Dependent

Chanting their demand for Bullsh*t to be included as one of the national languages in the upcoming census, the nation’s largest body of Bullsh*tters gathered on Constitutional Avenue in Islamabad on Saturday. “We demand for what is the national lingua franca, come to think of it, to be included as one of the slots we can tick in the language category in this census,” said Shabbir Ahmed, one of the leaders of the protest. “We have been ignored for far too long!” “We do not want to adapt ourselves to whatever machination the positiv .....
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Pakwheels.com takes down review of Vigo Double Cabin

February 17, 2020 BY The Dependent

Car sales marketplace and blog pakwheels.com took down on Monday a review of the Toyota Hilux Double Cabin Vigo that was published earlier the same day. “Though there is no way on God’s earth that I could afford the daala, but I wanted to read up on it because, hey, I also read Mercedes reviews,” said Hassan Zaidi, a Lahore-based car enthusiast. “And I started reading it, but ammi called me to fix her tablet and when I went back to my room, I saw it had been removed.” “Yeah, they 404’d that review,” said Saleem Ahmed, Assi .....
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Ehsanullah giving us major vacay goals in his Turkish holiday pics on Instagram

February 16, 2020 BY The Dependent

ANKARA/ISTANBUL/IZMIR/ANTALYA/– With selfies ranging from the luxurious Dalaman beaches to the Duden Waterfalls, to the world renowned Cotton Castle, to the innumerable holiday spots in Istanbul, the most wanted militant and spokesman of the terrorist group Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, Ehsan Ullah Ehsan, is totally giving vacay goals to his less successful friends and family through the never ending stream of Turkish vacation images being uploaded on his Instagram account. Clearly a globetrotter and a travel enthusiast, Ehsan’s Instagram f .....
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