Tag: Raja

SC sends notice to Raja Riaz and Uzma Bukhari for defaming...

ISLAMABAD: A three-member Supreme Court bench on Thursday issued notices to Raja Riaz, PPP Punjab senior minister and Uzma Bukhari, PPP's provincial assembly member, asking them to submit their replies over a statement they made in an assembly session that certain TV channels were shareholder of India's Bajaj Group.
The bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Tariq Parvez and Justice Ghulam Rabbani issued notices to both leaders through the Punjab Assembly

Re-imagining Raja Rasalu in the present

How do you absorb a folktale and re-present it to the present? This is the question that any theatre-goer must ask as he steps into Ajoka's re-rendering of Raja Rasalu - a folk metaphor locating itself in Sialkot of the second century AD.
Re-capturing the folktale
The first act of the play announces the arrival of Raja Rasalo. Rasalo's origin as deriving from myth and mysticism is predicted. The play begins in the court of Raja Salvahan of Sialkot. Salvahan has two wives.