Tag: Life

Nearly 10 years ago, Osama bin Laden successfully dodged dozens of US and British forces closing in on his cave-haven in the Tora Bora...

KARACHI - Aziz Hasan is a self-taught artist and has been painting since childhood. He had quite an exposure to international artwork at various museums and galleries around the world since his teens. "I believe in seeing the world purely from a very optimistic and positive aspect of what life has offered. Destiny takes its own course," Hasan says. There were no pressures, whereas painting - the peaceful energy of the desire to create, which was absorbed by the mind - was so

LAGOS - The spirit of Nigeria's legendary musician and activist Fela Kuti comes alive in Lagos this week with a Broadway musical putting the late Afrobeat icon back on the stage in his proud motherland.
The timing turns out to be perfect: President Goodluck Jonathan was declared winner of Nigeria's elections on Monday, and Kuti was a harsh critic of the ruling elite in a country long held back by corruption.
From runs on Broadway and in London that drew rave reviews, the

KARACHI - Trained as a sculptor, Ruby Chishti works with the detritus of daily life: straw, cotton wool, plastic bags, fabric and old newspapers. In her works, she has extended this focus on the domestic by moulding a series of sculptural objects from feminine sanitary napkins and stockings. Her often-limp figures of crows, buffaloes and humans are stuffed, cast and stitched to create narratives of dignified pathos and gentle sadness. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from

DASKA - Besides presenting an ugly look, unmanaged electricity wires in streets and markets of the Daska city are creating problems for the citizens, posing threats of short-circuit and eruption of fire in major city markets, including Main Bazaar, Subedar Bazaar and the main streets of College Road.
Many schools of children are also facing a very serious problem of lack of management of wires. In some markets unattended and even bare wires are found scattered on the ground and

LOS ANGELES - Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs will allow best-selling author Walter Isaacson, who chronicled the lives of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, to publish his biography next year.
The Silicon Valley icon, who has battled a rare form of pancreatic cancer and undertook a liver transplant in 2009, granted exclusive interviews to the biographer over the course of three years -- an unprecedented level of access to the CEO. "Just as he did with Einstein and Benjamin Franklin,

TOBA TEK SINGH - A villager was killed as a result of firing in the air at a wedding ceremony in a Gojra. Amer Irshad Mughal was a guest at the marriage of Noman Zafar when his relatives started aerial firing. A bullet hit the deceased, injuring him severely. He was shifted to Gojra THQ Hospital where he succumbed to his wounds.
BIKE LIFTED: Unknown thieves took away the motorcycle of a resident of Gojra from Toba Forest.
Rana Azam Khan of Chak 164/GB Sheikhan parked his

LOS ANGELES - Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs will allow best-selling author Walter Isaacson, who chronicled the lives of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, to publish his biography next year.
The Silicon Valley icon, who has battled a rare form of pancreatic cancer and undertook a liver transplant in 2009, granted exclusive interviews to the biographer over the course of three years -- an unprecedented level of access to the CEO.

KARACHI -
"Have we become so numb that we have forgotten how to celebrate the smaller things in life?" asks Sana Arjumand.
Arjumand seeks to find out why celebration of life and identity has become a far-fetched idea.
She wants to know why we have to be insecure about ourselves in dealing with issues of this era, such as globalisation and modernism.
"I believe that it is impossible to forget who we are. It is embedded in our conscience. If we embrace what we are

MUMBAI - R Madhavan believes that rules are meant to be broken. The rebel star shares his experiences with us:
MY LIFE is very similar to the story in '3 Idiots.' I was quite a rebel and always wanted to break rules. But because I shared a deep bond with my parents they let me do whatever I wished to. Like typical South Indians they wanted me to go for higher studies. But I rebelled and got into acting.
AS A CHILD I was naughty. I was the kind parents didn't want their

NEW YORK - Stroll into Hogwarts, visit the Gryffindor common room and see Harry Potter's bed in the dormitory he shared with Ron Weasley in a new exhibition at Discovery Times Square. The hundreds of artifacts, dozens of costumes, props and furniture from the film franchise used in "Harry Potter, The Exhibition" will transport fans of the boy wizard to the world where Harry, Hermione and Ron battle the evil Lord Voldemort.
Stretch out in Hagrid's oversized easy chair in the hut

ISLAMABAD - The strike observed by doctors associated with the Young Doctors' Association (YDA) allegedly claimed the life of a 13-year-old girl at Benazir Bhutto Hospital (BBH) in Rawalpindi on Thursday. A source in BBH said 13-year-old Sana, a resident of Kalar Saidan, breathed his last at BBH as no doctor was present in the hospital. The source further said Sana was suffering from breath and heart problem and was brought in the emergency department of the BBH on Wednesday night,

LAHORE - Raymond Davis' lawyer Syed Zahid Hussain Bokhari has moved to the US amid life threats after his client's release, while his daughter and Punjab Assembly legislator from PPP, Azma Bokhari, is constantly being harassed.
PPP deputy parliamentary leader Shaukat Basra told reporters on Tuesday that Azma and her family was receiving life threats constantly, due to which her father Zahid Bokhari had left the country. Basra said Azma was receiving threats from unidentified

KARACHI - "Transformation plays a key role in one's life. We transform physically and pass through a lot of changes, and along with that our personalities change with time," artist Nosheen Iqbal said.
Iqbal said that we learn from the changes around us as we are a part of a certain system that we live in. The system changes and so do we by transforming with it, and acquiring and adapting according to these changes, she added. "Nature does it all the time. It adapts to the changes

FAISALABAD - The European Union has announced to finance a project titled 'Trade-Related Technical Assistance' (TRTA) aimed at boosting Pakistan's economy by increasing the life of farm products. It was stated by international expert, Dr Mike Dillon, at his recent meeting with University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) Vice Chancellor Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan and Institute of Horticultural Sciences head Prof Dr Amman Ullah.
Dr Mike Dillon has been appointed as a coordinator by United

ISLAMABAD - Senior officials of the Interior Ministry on Wednesday informed the special committee of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that there was serious threat to the lives of JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman, ANP President Asfandyar Wali Khan, PML-Q President Shujaat Hussain and former information minister Sherry Rehman.
The PAC special committee, which met with Riaz Hussain Pirzada in the chair, was told this by Interior Affairs Secretary Qamar Zaman Chaudhry that intelligence

HAFIZABAD - A young labourer, frustrated by on poverty, committed suicide at Kolo Tarar Town on Tuesday. Saqib was doing labour but was unable to meet his demotic expenditures and often remained tense. On the day of the incident, he took poisonous pills. He was rushed to hospital, but doctors could not save his life.
SIX MEAT SELLERS ARRESTED: At least six butchers were sent to jail for selling unhygienic meat. Deputy District Officer Nauman Hafeez raided the shops of butchers