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Conserving environment: Marine animals come alive at weekend gala
KARACHI: Several residents headed to the creek this weekend to participate in a Marine Gala held to educate people about the importance of marine life and the environment. The two-day gala, jointly...
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Forgotten legacy: In the race of life, musicians continue to beat their drums
KARACHI: For eight hours everyday, Shakeel ‘Cassette Wallah’ wears a security guard’s uniform, holding a lethal weapon, and stands alert observing everyone who comes across. Evenings, however, give...
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Mama Parsi students go around the world
KARACHI: The Mama Parsi Girl’s High School campus became a global village on Thursday, when its classrooms were converted into cultural manifestations of 18 different countries. The event, which was...
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Catch of the season: For fishermen of Keti Bunder, crabs bring ‘enhanced...
KETI BUNDER: To catch mud crabs [locally known as Kikoon] was once considered a sin by the fishermen of Keti Bunder, Kharo Chhan and others coastal areas of Sindh. But now they don’t only bring in...
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Children’s Day: Teenage painters portray understanding of human rights
KARACHI: “My message in this picture is to expose the human rights violations being committed by influential people on the ordinary people in the contemporary age of civilisation,” said Rooma, a...
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The wait for Godot is a futile one
KARACHI: “Nothing happens — nobody comes and nobody goes … it is awful,” says Estragon in the first act of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. This one-liner perhaps best summarises why a play like...
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Art and the city: Mapping the roads of Karachi for the routes best travelled
KARACHI: ‘Dekh bhaal kay jana’ is a phrase of caution that Karachi’ities have heard one too many times when they’re about to step out of their homes – especially when the halaat [law and order...
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Blessings bestowed: Celebrating the monument to Christ the King
KARACHI: The Christ the King Monument in Karachi was reconsecrated on Sunday by His Excellency, Archbishop Edgar Pena Parra, apostolic nuncio to Pakistan, after renovations to restore the monument to...
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Evolution of violence: If you’re looking for na maloom afraad, look within...
KARACHI: When you think of na maloom afraad in the city, the image that comes to mind is that of men on motorcycles swerving through the streets, faces hidden with cloth, their guns glistening...
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Pursukoon Karachi: Cantt station porters take a cinema break
KARACHI: Inside the main building of the Karachi Cantonment Railway Station, 50-year-old Allah Bukhsh and his young colleague Muhammad Nisar, were eagerly watching a video on a white sheet stretched...
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Gangs of Mehmoodabad: Chanesar Goth may be the next Lyari
KARACHI: Until three months ago, Maimuna and Ghulam Rasool were happily married and life in their humble Chanesar Goth quarters was simple. With their two-year wedding anniversary around the corner,...
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Reflections on a major retrospective: SRK, Hrithik Roshan part of Rashid...
KARACHI: The Mohatta Palace Museum’s exhibit of artist Rashid Rana’s retrospective was marked by the launch of ‘Labyrinth of Reflections: The art of Rashid Rana, 1992-2012’, a tome that is, quipped...
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Children’s Film Festival: Educating young minds through visual arts
KARACHI: The Zuleikhabai Auditorium at the Rangoonwala Community Centre wore a festive look on Wednesday as a jam-packed room of young children, dressed in their school uniforms, enjoyed the...
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Fall sick with the healing: The 'killer' history of Karachi's first flyover
KARACHI: It is hard being the great, great grandson of Ismail Ibrahim Chundrigar. History has piled a double irony on Ejaz Munshi. Not only is he a descendant of the legend after whom that great road...
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Express offices attack: Journalists demand security at Tuesday’s protest
KARACHI / HYDERABAD / SUKKUR: The attack on the offices of the Express Media Group in Karachi was slammed across Sindh by journalists on Tuesday. Members of various journalist unions, such as the...
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A magical story-telling session at Acton House
KARACHI: Ninety children between the ages of six and nine, from schools all over Karachi, gathered at the British Deputy High Commissioner’s residence last Wednesday for a creative story-telling...
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Changing trends: IBA, IoBM graduates prefer own business over corporate jobs
KARACHI: Gone are the days when nearly all the graduates of business schools were determined to join large corporations and make a living out of a nine-to-five job. Out of the nearly 1,300 graduates...
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Charming Xinjiang: Celebrating Chinese culture with riveting dances and...
KARACHI: When it comes to the portrayal of folk music and dance, one just can’t beat the Chinese. They put so much effort into their presentations, their rich tapestry, their settings and their...
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Wear your identity: Pride rallies with bright colours and flamboyant music...
HYDERABAD: Traditional music and dance accompanied a Sindhi topi and Ajrak as people thronged streets across the province to celebrate Sindhi culture day. It was Pakistan’s very own Sindhi pride...
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Tale of one city: Take a tour of the ‘faceless’ city for Rs300 with this...
KARACHI: There is no such thing as a Karachi image. This is one fact that the six people behind Karachi’s unique travel guide have tried to convey. At a discussion on Right to the City: Travel Guide...
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