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NAB challenges suspension of sentences of Sharifs in Avenfield case

by Staff Report , (Last Updated 6 mins ago)

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday moved the Supreme Court (SC) against a decision of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) suspending sentences given to former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, daughter…

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

Treachery, thy name is CSS

by Shah Nawaz Mohal , (Last Updated 4 hours ago)

Who’ll plug the many lacunas that inundate Pakistan’s foremost competitive exams? Time, resources, dedication, a plethora of notes and books, countless prayers, single-minded focus, complete devotion and exceptional luck — all need…

Editorials

PTI and the opposition

by Editorial , (Last Updated 10 hours ago)

Words and actions Surely now that PTI has been in power for a while and its accountability drive has taken off – based on a mountain of evidence no doubt as the…

Cartoons

Today’s Cartoon

by Syed Shahzeb Ali , (Last Updated 9 hours ago)

Business

KCCI vows to address traders’ plight

October 22, 2018

KARACHI: Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) President Junaid Esmail Makda has assured the members of All Pakistan Motorcycles Spare Parts Importers and Dealers Association (MSPIDA) that his chamber would leave no stone unturned in resolving their grievances regarding taxation,...

Foreign

Body double, not Khashoggi left Saudi consulate after killing: reports

by News Desk , (Last Updated 3 hours ago)

A man appearing to wear journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s clothes left the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul following his killing there, according to a surveillance video, while a member of Crown Prince Mohammed bin…

Featured

Body Becoming: Mainstreaming performance art

by Abdullah Niazi , (Last Updated 3 hours ago)

A first for Pakistan Performance art, as a concept, is alien to Pakistan. For afficiendos, it is a vague concept. An outlier so unfamiliar and so far removed from the Pakistani reality…

Sports

Maldives cricket team to play Aitchison College on Oct 23

by APP , (Last Updated 16 mins ago)

LAHORE: The visiting Maldives cricket team will play Aitchison College in a friendly T20 match here tomorrow (Tuesday) at the Aitchison College Ground. Maldives team is on a training-cum-preparatory nine-day tour to…

Lahore

PU ex-VC, others sent to jail on 14-day judicial remand

by Staff Report , (Last Updated 20 mins ago)

LAHORE: An accountability court on Monday sent Punjab University’s former vice-chancellor Dr Mujahid Kamran and others to jail on a 14-day judicial remand in a case pertaining to illegal appointments. In an…

Karachi

Sindh to produce another 200MW power soon, CM tells German investors

by PPI , (Last Updated 26 mins ago)

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Monday said that Sindh is the land of opportunities and the provincial government has created a one-window facility for investors at Public Private…

Islamabad

Policeman shot dead in Dera Ismail Khan

by Staff Report , (Last Updated 9 mins ago)

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Unidentified armed men gunned down a policeman and fled the scene in Dera Ismail Khan on Monday, according to police. The gunmen sprayed bullets at policeman identified as Nadeem…

Pakistan to give 10,000 abducted journalists in aid to Saudi Arabia

October 22, 2018 BY The Dependent

(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Learn to take a joke; you’ll live longer.) RIYADH – Prime Minister Imran Khan will give 10,000 abducted journalists in aid to Saudi Arabia as part of the Future Investment Initiative Conference (FIIC) in Riyadh, Radio Pakistan reported. According to a statement issued by the Foreign Office (FO) on Friday, the prime minister has vowed that Pakistan will play its part as a brotherly Muslim nation and give Saudi Arabia what it is in dire need of, while talking to King Salman bin Abdul Aziz on the p .....
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Pakistan continues to stand with Saudi Arabia in ongoing clash with human rights

October 21, 2018 BY The Dependent

(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Learn to take a joke; you’ll live longer.) ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has expressed its solidarity with Saudi Arabia in the ongoing row between the kingdom and basic human rights. During the weekly briefing on Thursday, Foreign Office spokesperson Mohammad Faisal told reporters that Islamabad was following with “immense concern” the crisis between the two. He added that Pakistan has shown its solidarity with Riyadh in this regard. “As you all know, Prime Minister Imran Khan visited Saudi Arabia .....
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Nation’s fathers urge nation to reach airport at least 24 hours before flight

October 20, 2018 BY The Dependent

(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Learn to take a joke; you’ll live longer.) The nation’s fathers have urged the nation to reach the airport “at least 24 hours” before their respective flights. Speaking at a press conference in Karachi, the nation’s fathers said it was always good to be prepared for all eventualities and it was better to be safe than sorry. “Beta, if you are early and have to wait a bit, that isn’t as big a problem as being late,” said Hassan Zaidi, father of four. “Sometimes, the procedures .....
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Saudi Arabia denies ever denying Jamal Khashoggi’s death

October 20, 2018 BY The Dependent

(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Learn to take a joke; you’ll live longer.) Responding harshly to its critics, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has denied ever denying the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in their consulate in Istanbul. Reports have been surfacing over the past two weeks that the Wall Street Journal columnist had been killed in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul while trying to get some official documents. Saudi authorities had been denying anything of the sort since the day he went missing, until official Saud .....
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UN condemns strike on Ko Ko Korina

October 20, 2018 BY The Dependent

(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Learn to take a joke; you’ll live longer.) The United Nations and a host of member countries have condemned on friday the brutal and senseless attack on Ko Ko Korina. “This is a terrible, meaningless tragedy,” said António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations. \ “We would urge the concerned nations to make all-out efforts to bring to justice those responsible for the tragedy.” “We are together with the people of Pakistan in this terrible tragedy and would like to offer o .....
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Media Watch: Hard times

October 19, 2018 BY The Tube

It’s a lot of things coming together, merging into one big elephant-in-the-room. Over the last two years, the increase in the suppression of the free press has been palpable. Yes, the last decade was never the poster-child for press freedom but at least it was, like most of the preceding decades, (barring the 80s) ratcheting up, slightly at times, quicker at others. These last couple of years have seen a strict level of censorship. Now, even junior officials of the media wing of the establishment boss around TV newsroom officials with t .....
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Time is ripe to get concession from tailor who murdered my colleagues, says analyst

October 19, 2018 BY The Dependent

(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Learn to take a joke; you’ll live longer.) Local political analyst Zarar Khuhro on Tuesday noted how it was the opportune time to seek out a discount from the tailor who had come over to the newsroom of his organisation and gunned down 17 of his colleagues because of some dispute with one of them. “As soon as I heard the gunshots, I cautiously crept out of my office and saw the attacker rushing out of the newsroom, with more than a dozen of my neighbours lying in a pool of blood,” he said. “ .....
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‘Responsible Pakistani’ Usman Khawaja donates Dubai ton to dams fund

October 18, 2018 BY The Dependent

(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Learn to take a joke; you’ll live longer.) ABU DHABI – Inspired by Chief Justice Saqib Nisar, Pakistan-born Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja has decided to prove himself as a ‘responsible Pakistani’ and donate his scintillating ton in Dubai to the fund for Diamer-Bhasha and Mohamand Dams Fund, it has been learnt. The overseas Pakistani worked hard to score 141 while playing for 396 overs on the field and defy his ‘homeland’ a victory. His innings was acknowledged in the post-match cere .....
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NAB to go after ‘corrupt’ Jayasuriya

October 18, 2018 BY The Dependent

(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Learn to take a joke; you’ll live longer.) ISLAMABAD – The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is likely to take strict and relentless action against Sri Lanka cricket legend Sanath Jayasuriya who became one of the most high-profile figures embroiled in corruption after being charged with two counts of disrupting an investigation by the International Cricket Council (ICC). Jayasuriya, a star of the Sri Lanka team that won the 1996 World Cup with a playing career that spanned 22 years, has lande .....
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Saudi govt issues arrest warrants against hit squad for ‘sloppy execution of murder’

October 18, 2018 BY The Dependent

(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Learn to take a joke; you’ll live longer.) RIYADH – The Saudi government has issued arrest warrants of the 15-man hit squad it had hired to murder Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi over charges of doing a 'sloppy execution of a premeditated murder'. The warrants come in the wake of immense international pressure on the Saudi government following demands into the investigation of the disappearance of Khashoggi, who was believed to have been killed after his entry into the Saudi consulate .....
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BJP govt changes India’s name back to precolonial ‘not a unified state’

October 18, 2018 BY The Dependent

(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Learn to take a joke; you’ll live longer.) NEW DELHI – The Bharattiya Janata Party (BJP) government on Tuesday approved a proposal to rename the historic country that it governs from India to its precolonial name of ‘not a unified state’. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced the move in a Margdarshak Mandal meeting for Kumbh recently where he received this proposal from seers. "Not a unified state’ means a confluence of multiple nations, ethnicities, princely state and king .....
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‘Punjab Police passed my sting operation,’ reveals Haroon-ur-Rasheed

October 18, 2018 BY The Dependent

(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Learn to take a joke; you’ll live longer.) Renowned journalist Haroon-ur-Rasheed has slammed criticism following an audio leak of a threatening call he allegedly made to a police officer revealing it was part of a sting operation to check how awesomely upright police officers in Naya Pakistan were. The audio, which was leaked on social media, became viral on Monday night resulting in demands into an inquiry over the matter. "Bhai inquiry about what? I was just testing them so that I can report bac .....
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