BEIRUT: Lebanese riot police fired tear gas at demonstrators trying to break through a barrier to get to the parliament building in Beirut on Saturday during a protest over the government’s handling…
–Various systematic changes to take place for control of provincial expenditures LAHORE: Punjab Finance Minister Hashim Jawan Bakht has said that uncertainty due to the Covid-19 pandemic has adversely affected Punjab’s revenue collection…
TEHRAN: Iran said Thursday it “only acts in self-defence” after President Donald Trump warned it against attacks on US troops in Iraq, as a new war of words heated up despite the…
LAHORE: A 25-year-old youth died here on Tuesday after a stray kite string slit his throat in Ferozepur Road, factory area. The victim, identified as Danish, was commuting on a bike when…
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) President and former prime minister Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain on Sunday telephoned Chairman Senate Sadiq Sanjrani and expressed his party’s support to the besieged the Senate chief. Shujaat…
BEIJING: The largest Picasso exhibition ever held in China opens on Saturday, featuring more than 100 works — many of them from the artist’s early years. The “Birth of a Genius” exhibition…
Ah the joys of religious puritanism Given man’s status as the superior species on earth, one shouldn’t suppose that it took us long to figure out that religion provides the most concealing…
Anger is gender neutral, after all We live in the 21st century yet ideals of femininity that suppress women to the point of living a pantomime continue to be practiced with the…
LAHORE: In a country where women themselves are treated as property, not an iota of shock is experienced when a female is denied her rightful share in inheritance. We live in a…
LAHORE: Although street harassment happens to be a norm all over the world, men in countries like Pakistan are apparently the most uncivil and uncomfortable with female drivers on the road. Along with…
While hundreds of people from all walks of life came out of their houses to celebrate the 71st Independence Day of Pakistan, women seemed to be persona non grata in every nook…
Child psychologist says effects of abuse can be permanent Brain samples from adults who died by suicide and had a history of child abuse show abnormalities in brain cells LAHORE: On January 4,…
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of ‘Safar-The Journey’, former Pakistan’s ambassador to the US Syeda Abida Hussain praised the struggle of the country’s young artists, saying it was heartening to see works…
