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The Pepsi Showcase event at Avari Pavilion on Monday intended to showcase some of the latest designer wear and the summer collections that the topmost brands had to offer. But what it also put on disp

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Putting an end to exploitationLabour Day, or International Workers’ Day, has been reduced to just a holiday in recent times: one day off from all that the day and its creators stood against.

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Remember Zenith Irfan, the ‘motorcycle girl’ who became the first woman to travel the distance from Lahore to the Khunjerab Pass solo on a bike? Her story, narrated through the Facebook page and p

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Or political, for that matter!It was about time a meeting of currency dealers was called by the State Bank of Pakistan to discuss the plummeting rupee and its journey down into hades.The r

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The 90s/2000s artistes are on a converging comeback trail. After we looked back at Strings first two singles of the eight that they have promised for their upcoming album 30 two more veteran acts have

Who is responsible?For a country that has the eighth highest farm output in the world, Pakistan ranks shamefully low on the Global Hunger Index: 106 (out of 119 developing countries), six plac

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Early last month, Strings announced that they would be marking their 30th anniversary with eight singles for their upcoming album 30 one after the other in the coming weeks. That understandably had us

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The drama continuesIt’s the final countdown for MQM’s (or shall we say, MQM-PIB’s?) Dr Farooq Sattar. By April 11, Sattar would find out where he stands in the MQM, in particular, and on

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KARACHI: Pakistan beat West Indies by eight wickets with 19 balls to spare as they chased down 154 to complete a 3-0 clean sweep in the T20I series.Babar Azam (51 off 40) scored another half-cent

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KARACHI: For the second straight night Pakistan shattered records as the team posted their highest ever total 205-3 led by a masterful 97* by Babar Azam. In reply, the West Indies could only manage 12

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KARACHI: The National Stadium hosted its first international match for nine years as Pakistan blew away the West Indies by 143 runs to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match T20 series.This was the gr

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BackstrokePakistan’s external debt is hovering around the dreaded $100 billion mark, currently at $93 billion, which is almost a third of the national GDP. Meanwhile, the State Bank’s rese