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Singapore turns 50 with huge parade, tribute to Lee Kuan Yew
SINGAPORE: Independent Singapore turned 50 Sunday with fireworks, a massive military parade and a tribute to late founding leader Lee Kuan Yew, who helped transform it from colonial backwater to...
View ArticleHeartbreaking to not be a part of team: Fawad Alam
Talented left-handed all-rounder Fawad Alam made his ODI debut for Pakistan in May 2007. Since then his international cricket career has gone through several highs and lows, and currently it seems to...
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Typhoon Soudelor kills 12 in China: state media
BEIJING: Typhoon Soudelor killed 12 people in eastern China and five are missing after parts of the country were hit by the heaviest rains in a century, state media reported on Sunday. The casualties...
View ArticleLehmann admits to Ashes errors
NOTTINGHAM: Australia coach Darren Lehmann said both he and selection chief Rodney Marsh had to shoulder “a lot” of the blame for the team’s Ashes loss. England’s dominant win by an innings and 78 runs...
View ArticleKhawaja Asif urges Altaf to remember sacrifices of armed forces
Taking Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief to task for his alleged defamatory statements against the country’s armed forces, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has urged Altaf Hussain to remember the...
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Bilawal asks Sindh government to accelerate relief activities in flood-hit areas
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has asked the Sindh government to accelerate rescue and relief activities in flood-hit areas of the province, Radio Pakistan reported....
View ArticleIran ex-president’s son begins 10-year jail term
TEHRAN: The son of Iran’s former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani began a 10-year prison term for financial and security crimes on Sunday, insisting his conviction was politically motivated. Mehdi...
View ArticlePope calls for global nuclear ban on anniversary of Nagasaki
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis said Sunday that the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings still evoked “horror and revulsion” 70 years on and called for a ban on nuclear arms and weapons of mass destruction. An...
View ArticleAzeri journalist dies from beating over Facebook football row
BAKU: An Azeri journalist died Sunday after being severely beaten by unidentified attackers following a dispute over his Facebook post about a football match, his sister told the Turan news agency....
View ArticleWill raise child porn case in NA: Imran Khan
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan announced on Sunday his party will raise the matter of child abuse in Kasur in the National Assembly. “It is extremely embarrassing for all of us,”...
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Mehreen Syed between flights and fittings
LAHORE: “When I did my first show with Kamiar Rokni, I remember him asking Ather Shahzad, “Who is she? She can’t walk at all,” says Mehreen Syed with a good laugh. “I have received the most criticism...
View ArticleLHC seeks response from govt on Hafiz Saeed’s petition to ban Indian film
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday issued a notice to the federal government seeking its response on a petition filed by Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed who had challenged the planned...
View ArticleShyhaki disappointed at state of local music
LAHORE: One of the first pop-music icons of the Pakistani entertainment industry, Muhammad Ali Shyhaki, attributes the decline in the quality of music being produced to the ‘unprofessional’ attitude of...
View ArticlePakistan Zindabad!: Battle for box office azadi
KARACHI: The second half of 2015 has shaped up very nicely for Pakistani cinema. Having gathered momentum following the release of multiple Pakistani films — Wrong No. and Bin Roye – on Eidul-Fitr,...
View ArticleA fantastic nightmare
LOS ANGELE: Scathing reviews and an indiscreet tweet left Fantastic Four on the slab after the franchise reboot flopped at the weekend box office. Fox’s hopes of rejuvenating the comic book characters...
View ArticleKasur child porn scandal: Senate passes resolution demanding ‘harsh...
Days after the news of Kasur child paedophile ring came to light, the Upper House of Parliament on Monday unanimously passed a resolution condemning the sickening act and demanded ‘harsh punishment’...
View Article8 Reasons you’re often always cold
Feeling chilly when the AC is blasting is one thing. But if you’re always shivering, or your hands and feet feel like they’re out of a refrigerator while everyone else nearby says the temperature feels...
View ArticleLHC rejects govt’s application to form judicial commission over Kasur child...
Chief Justice Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday rejected an application from the Punjab government which sought to establish a judicial commission to probe the child pornography case in Kasur, Express...
View ArticlePope Francis terms Europe’s rejection of migrants ‘an act of war’
Pope Francis has termed Europe’s rejection of migrants fleeing violence in Middle East and Africa “an act of war”. Speaking to a youth group in Vatican City on Friday, he said that the situation where...
View ArticleIsrael releases all suspects linked to deadly firebombing of Palestinian home
JERUSALEM: Israel has released all suspects detained in raids as part of a probe into the firebombing of a Palestinian home that killed an 18-month-old child and his father, authorities said on Monday....
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