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MPAs to apprise senior party leaders about row with NP along sidelines of a reception hosted by the US consul general.

TTP spokesperson Shahidullah Shahid says the group was not involved in the attack.

While part of the literature festival, the talk had little to do with literature and was hardly a festival for anyone

'It’s a reference book about communities settled in Pakistan and their cuisine, the recipes were an after thought.'

Rise in extremism in Pakistan is fabricated, people should challenge it, says journalist and author Raza Rumi.

MQM have been subjected to negative propaganda, said Altaf Hussain.

'In best of circumstances, we will be faced with influx of another 2 million refugees,' says former diplomat Shaikh.

Sindhi writer Sindhu moderates New Voices in Sindhi Poetry session, two speakers invited were female Sindhi poets.

Rubina Saigol, independent writer, says there was a vast difference in text books before and after 1965.

Raza Rumi’s launches his book followed by a discussion on Pakistani nationalism.

Zehra Nigha’s reading and Bilal Tanweer’s book launch mark the class difference of literary expression.

A visual record of a city at war with itself.

Aziz - accused of murder - was arrested when he was en route to his wedding; allegedly subjected to police torture.

Judicial officer took part in a jirga held to decide the fate of a couple.

We are being targeted almost daily but not given protection, they lament.

Provincial government has declined providing security to rally’s participants due to on-going Sindh Festival’s events.

MQM demands that the biased police command be changed in 24 hours. Police admit apprehending Fahad Aziz.

Audience enjoy Sanam Marvi, Mohan Bhagat’s music but let down by absence of Abida Parveen.

Malik has been appointed on a one-year contract, said officials.

Two people were shot dead while two bodies were found in different parts of the city.

MQM observes day of mourning to peacefully protest ‘extrajudicial killings’.

A couple of minutes later, speakers burst into life and a melodic voice started singing a song in Urdu and Persian.

It seems difficult, then, to dismiss the lack of cultural context for a western audience as external pressure.

The Quaid-e-Azam University professor argued that at impressionable ages, students are taught hate material.

What worries Hoodbhoy, in context of Pakistani society, is existing state of both the academia and the professionals.

Not just about the partition, his book is covers 240 years of Punjab - end of Mughal Empire to end of British Empire.

This pictorial poetry book is written in a philosophical way mainly for teenagers.

A Rangers spokesperson claimed that 15 suspects were apprehended.

After Shahrukh Jatoi fled to Dubai, his father was arrested and his name was put on the ECL.

Report adds that 15,671 suspects have been arrested, 10,254 raids have taken place since start of the operation.

Transport union decides to keep vehicles off the roads in Karachi.

Asma laments that those who call themselves modern and progressive lack consensus.

Former diplomats at KLF’s session on geo-politics talked about the country’s troubled present and bleak future.

Meet the women of the matriarchal Bagri community.

Writing in English has grown exponentially and works are not disconnected from identity, realities of Pakistanis.

While he loves begum, Saleem said actor Bushra Ansari’s bijli, a character she played in PTV skit, was more...

Education sector takes pummelling from politicos because they know how to profit from it.

Sharing her preference for nazms over ghazals, Sani said that she loves the aspect of storytelling that poetry offers.

The brains behind the first English Islamic art magazine talk of their experience.

One of fiestier moments of the session were when diplomat Zafar Hilaly challenged both Noorani’s premises and...

Speakers agreed that while Faiz, the man, is forgotten, Faiz, the poet, will never be.

Between market trends, what publishers want and readers becoming conservative, the session seemed like a stock report.

For Mustansir Hussain Tarar, inspiration to write has come from books he has read and from observing his surroundings.

Mirza accepted writing for art is not as popular in Pakistan as hardly one per cent of population reads art critique.

Reporting in Pakistan had changed especially in cases like some political parties, the military and extremist groups.

After he read some parts of the book, he added that the country was created under idealism.

Rukshsana Ahmed talks about ‘Memory and the Imagination’.

Dr Rajmohan Gandhi speaks at the Beach Luxury on the first day of the 5th Karachi Literature Festival.

Author’s animated readings has audience in fits of laughter on first day of fifth KLF .

Gandhi said that most versions of Pak-India history spewed hatred, there was more of focus on what politicians did.