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The last resort Authority selling its assets to avoid...

The Lahore Development Authority (LDA), facing financial and administrative turmoil with its budgetary deficit standing at more than Rs 2 billion, is on a...

Chinese in the classroom

Mandarin could become a compulsory part of the school curriculum in the Karachi, Pakistan’s commercial capital, and the surrounding province of Sindh, in a...

The dengue effect

As dengue spreads its tentacles killing 33 till date only in the city, almost all parks and gardens are fast losing its numbers of...

‘Good human beings matter to me the most’

Pakistani music star Ali Zafar who made his acting debut with Bollywood flick ‘Tere Bin Laden’ last year, had a taste of mainstream cinema...

Unbinding the economy

The stagnancy of private sector credit has been discussed ad nauseum in financial circles. Reinstating, credit advanced to the private sector has been hovering...

Where is the gas?

Various areas of Lahore have been facing low gas pressure for the last week. The Sui Northern Gas Pipelines (SNGPL) said that because of...

Sajid and Zeeshan to reap The Harvest next month

The refined two-man band from Peshawar, made up of singer-songwriter and guitarist Sajid Ghafoor and keyboardist and music producer Zeeshan Parwez, is releasing their...

Pakistan team leaves for The Hague without key official

The Pakistan team left for The Hague without its key official, Indus Water Commissioner (IWC) Shiraz Memon, who was dropped at the last moment...

The natural gas conundrum

With winter just two months away, while the common man heaves a sigh of relief from inflated electricity bills and unending load-shedding, just around...

Need for the Fund

Humayun Akhtar Khan: With the problematic IMF program expiring in September, the central donor-debate will shift from reviving the stalled arrangement to determining modalities for...

Seminaries on the rise

The mushroom growth of illegal seminaries continues unabated in the federal capital under the nose of the city administration with the bosses blaming each...

The quality of charity

The above verse amply defines what charity is. It addresses what can be given in charity; to whom charity is to be given and...

The man behind England’s transformation

By lunch time on the second day of the Edgbaston Test, the series was done and dusted. After dismissing India for very little, England...

The corporate matchmaker

Be it a love marriage or an arranged one, there is a universal belief that matrimonial matches are made in Heaven. However, there are...

The Greek bailout

The world economic crisis is jumping from one point to another but there are few signs of it abating. The Greek crisis remained the...

The value of gypsies

The Grass Root Organization for Human Development Godh, which is an affiliate of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), is an organisation working for...

movieREVIEW: The Smurfs

You may remember the saccharine-sweet cartoon with the annoyingly catchy theme song that this movie attempts to bring to life and reinvent at the...