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Outsmart your belly fat
Belly fat doesn’t just make it hard to fit into your skinny jeans — it actually puts you at risk for heart disease, dementia and even some types of cancer. Here are some ways you can lose that bulging...
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A red fort, a Kashmiri chronicle
You hear someone say Lal Qilla and odds are you’ll think of India. If you live in Karachi, you may even think about that buffet place on Shahrah-e-Faisal. One place you certainly won’t think about is...
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Movie review: Jack Reacher - Tom’s tall order
The short statured Tom Cruise may have realised, at some point, that playing the role of the dark and hulky Jack Reacher was a rather tall order. In order to pass off as an intimidating former US Army...
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Out of focus
Money can’t buy creativity. Even a somewhat trained monkey can take pictures if given the right camera. Owning a high resolution Digital Single-lens Reflex (DSLR) camera, capturing pictures from it...
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Immigration woes: Can't buy me love
British citizens who don’t earn enough are finding their basic rights to a family life violated by new Immigration regulations. It was a fairy tale romance that turned into a nightmare. Maliha Khan, a...
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Turning trash into cash
What do a solitary garbage picker and a high-end recycling company have in common? The first time I met Gulfam, he ignored me for more than twenty minutes. He was busy scrutinising the heaps of waste,...
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‘The I doesn’t matter’
Jo dum ghaafil so dum kaafir Asaan ko murshad he parhaya hoo Sunrya sukhan gaiyaan khul akhyaan Asaan chit Maula wal laya hoo Keeti jaan hawalay Rabb de Aisa ishq kamaya hoo Marran thee aggay mar gaye...
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Healthy living: Wrinkle rewind
As you age your skin becomes less elastic, loses moisture and looks dull. It ultimately gives rise to wrinkles which add years to your face. Although you cannot get rid of the wrinkles completely,...
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Comment: Thanks but no Tanks
First of all, Thanks to the Almighty, boys played well. Not only did the boys play well, they played well enough to beat India for the first time in 38 months, well enough to win our first ever T20...
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Book review: Operation Geronimo - the ultimate whodunnit
Shaukat Qadir’s Operation Geronimo began as a quest to uncover the story of Osama bin Laden’s death. It now stands as a detailed volume, based on accounts by officers of Pakistan’s armed forces,...
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Living under Modi’s shadow
A few hours after Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi won his third election on December 20, 2012 I walked down the street in my neighborhood of Juhapura on the outskirts of Ahmedabad to interview...
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Travel: For an apple a day, go Almaty’s way
My misconceptions about visiting the city of Almaty vanished as soon as I set foot in Kazakhstan. Had I not been invited by the KIMEP University to train in the Tech Forum Central Asia Conference, I...
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Obama’s Pakistani connection
US President Obama’s electoral victory in 2012 marks the first time that a political campaign has made extensive use of data mining and analysis techniques that are used in only the most sophisticated...
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Sow, you want to grow?
Have you ever asked yourself where your food comes from? Most of the vegetables, herbs and fruits that you consume on a daily basis are grown outside our cities on farms and fields. Tons of chemical...
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Smother me in smoothie!
These revitalising smoothies might just be your next morning addiction! If you’re one to pull a face when confronted with a bowl of fruits or vegetables then these healthy smoothies will compensate...
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Top photo apps: Ground beneath my feet
Recently, while waiting for breakfast at The Lime Tree at Kuch Khaas in Islamabad, I decided to step outside and get a breath of fresh air. With nothing better to do, I used my ‘camera’, a Pantech...
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Thalassemia: Leases of life
“My son gets really upset when the day for his blood transfusion is near. He is just 12 and he has to go through this every two to three weeks. Even when we were going to sit in the rickshaw to come...
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One mom’s mess is another man’s moneymaker
Mild mannered and innocuous looking Khalid Cheema has a secret identity. No, he isn’t a visitor from another planet. He’s not a masked vigilante who lurks in the shadows. Nor was he ever bitten by a...
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Riding with robots
It’s early in the morning as team Electrolytes, comprised of boys of varying ages and heights, enters the room. Some of them are smiling while the others look a little apprehensive. The youngest...
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Mountain climbing: Gods awaiting pilgrims
“Wake up, dude! It’s afternoon, you’re dreaming with your eyes open,” “You’ve never been beyond Murree and now you want to go to K-2? What are you smoking?” and “That’s lovely. Could you please pass...
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