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Voters of NA-250 come out to cast their vote - some for the first time, some...
“When I came here on May 11 there were no such security arrangements as there were today. If the Election Commission of Pakistan had provided the same security and deployed army inside the polling...
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Transitions: PTI’s Zahra Shahid Hussain laid to rest after brutal murder
KARACHI: The woman who was known as the mother of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf was laid to rest on Sunday among the presence of family members, friends, party activists and admirers. Respected among...
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Chinese engineers escape botched bomb attack
KARACHI: A group of Chinese engineers escaped an abortive bomb attack in the Chinese Harbour area, in the Clifton neighbourhood of Karachi, on Tuesday. “Thanks God, the bomb did not explode,” Nasir...
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Cinepax - ‘a new step in the right direction’
KARACHI: There is good news for those residents of DHA and Clifton unwilling to travel the extra mile to Saddar – a new cinema has opened in the neighbourhood. Located inside The Ocean Mall that...
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Unusual protest: Sindh doctors say Shah unfit to become CM
KARACHI: The doctors in Sindh have a strong feeling that former chief minister, Qaim Ali Shah, is not fit to take up the position for the third time. “We do not need an aged man as our chief...
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If these walls could talk: Once abuzz with politics, Iranian cafes feel edged...
KARACHI: Many restaurants and roadside dhabbas in Karachi carry on their walls a line in Urdu which reads ‘Yahan par siyasi guftugoo karna mana hai’ [political talk is not allowed]. The traditional...
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In Sindhi, Urdu and English, lawmakers promise to be loyal and honest
KARACHI: Like schoolchildren excited to start a new class, the newly elected lawmakers in the 14th Sindh Assembly took their oaths on Wednesday. In three different languages, the lawmakers promised to...
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House of errors: Misprint on ballots leaves assembly members baffled
KARACHI: The first concern of the Sindh Assembly after its newly elected members took oath, it appears, was how to cast votes for the deputy speaker of the House. As member after member continued to...
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Beach Games extravaganza ends
KARACHI: District Central clinched the country’s first Beach Games as the inaugural event concluded yesterday at the Sea View, Karachi. A tally of 548 points from 26 various events that featured 1,000...
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Art = (Love)²: A film on love, life and loss
KARACHI: When a couple is madly in love, and one of them dies, leaving a void space in one’s heart, it takes longer than anticipated to accept that the person is no more and it takes even longer to...
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Sky is the limit: Karachi takes its gardens into the air
KARACHI: As the buildings in Karachi reach new heights, the gardens in the city too have left the grounds for the skies above. The city’s first environment museum boasts ‘gardens in the air’ in a...
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Case registered against Rangers’ official for killing a man
KARACHI: The police have registered a case against the Rangers’ personnel responsible for killing 22-year-old Ghulam Haider in Shah Faisal Colony on Tuesday but the alleged killer has yet to be handed...
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Shahzeb Khan’s murder: Shahrukh Jatoi, Siraj Talpur get death penalty
KARACHI: In a test case for justice within the class struggle, a Karachi Anti-Terrorism Court on Friday handed down the death penalty to prime suspects Shahrukh Jatoi and Nawab Siraj Talpur in the...
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Karachi from a wanderer’s gaze
KARACHI: Karachi doesn’t seem to scare film-maker Hira Nabi. While most of its residents bad-mouth the city, Nabi sees the beauty of Karachi through her lens. On Friday, she screened two of her films...
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DUHS graduation: 1,100 students join the medical fraternity
KARACHI: Amid the beaming parents and equally delighted faculty members, more than 1,100 students of the Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) graduated from the institution at the graduation...
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‘Stumped’: Of cricket, tragedy and wit — a dialogue with Imran Yusuf
KARACHI: For upcoming playwright Imran Yusuf, being a die-hard fan of the Pakistani cricket team came naturally. “Born and raised in the UK, the Pakistani cricket team was one link I cherished with...
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Tai Pan goes a’la carte for the night nibblers
KARACHI: The popular fingerlickin’ Chinese spring rolls and strong-flavoured special soup, followed by the very enticing Lobster in Butter Sauce and a rather bland Beijing Duck, were some of the...
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Living with violence: Lyari gang war driving residents out of their homes
KARACHI: Relocating has become so frequent in Aslam’s* life that he had to leave his home on his wedding day, and spend the night at a relative’s house. “The gangsters started firing at people during...
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As mangroves vanish coastline, Karachi finds itself vulnerable to dangers...
KARACHI: For centuries, Karachi has believed that so long as Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine is kept spotless, the saint would keep storms at bay – after all, he merely had to whisper a warning to the...
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Aapki Soniya: Reader’s theatre that didn’t quite hit the spot
KARACHI: With a delay of about an hour-and-a-half and some broken chairs, the curtain for Aapki Soniya finally parted like a rusted sliding door, as the ear-piercing creaks told the venue’s real...
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