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Dateline Islamabad folds
Team Dateline Dateline’s maiden issue It was about 4:30 pm and there were a few people at the office. I was at the end of Love in Time of Cholera when Zubair came to me and, leaning against the glass...
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Remembering Umair Zahoor
Umair, you could have done very well; you had a whole life ahead. Yes, still waters do run deep but this was the most unexpected of all news. You left your family and friends shocked. It’s the fourth...
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Jobless media graduate commits suicide
ISLAMABAD: A year after graduating and frustrated at not finding a job in the media, Umair Zahoor, an alumnus of the Department of Media and Communication Studies, International Islamic University,...
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Place that is press club
The outside world hardly knows all that goes on at a press club. Many mistake a press club for press itself and think that it is a place of a healthy and constructive dialogue. I thought the same until...
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In memory of a friend
Umair Zahoor How unfortunate it is that I knew Umair for three years but happened to visit his house only when he was not there to welcome me. Alas. Watching the gate and porch, a video cam to my mind...
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Dr. Hoodbhoy confronts the BOMB
By: Arsalan Altaf Do you think nuclear bombs ensure a better and protected Pakistan? Well, eminent nuclear scientist Parvez Hoodbhoy challenges that notion, through the book Confronting the Bomb:...
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Bangabandhu remembered in Islamabad
Bangabandhu is Sheikh Mujib’s honorary title in Bangali and means ‘Friend of Bengal’. Oxford University Press Pakistan organised the launch of The Unfinished Memoirs of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the...
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Pakistani women continue pushing the limits
Photo by uusc4all, taken on March 31, 2008 in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan http://bit.ly/VQXJSq Article 25 of the constitution of Pakistan says all citizens are equal before law, are entitled to equal...
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For the love of Urdu!
It was a usual chilly December evening and fish eateries at Rawalpindi’s Committee Chowk were doing good business. Beyond the fish-vendors, most of the booksellers awaited customers. There, however,...
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Raza Ali Abidi tells us Urdu ka haal
Raza Ali Abidi’s Urdu ka haal is the story of Urdu language entering the twenty-first Century. The story comes from a person who has been in the profession of words his whole life and who virtually...
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NPC bars associates from using cafe
ISLAMABAD: The National Press Club Monday barred hundreds of associate members from using the cafeteria. A notice at the club said only the council members would be served and that too on providing...
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Natives of the banyan
Hardly anybody knows for how many years it stood there, looking down at its people as they lived their lives. It was the centre the whole village life revolved around. Given its majesty and grandeur,...
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FPSC announces preliminary screen-out test for CSS exam
Federal Public Service Commission has, for the first time, decided to hold a preliminary screen-out test for those intending to sit the CSS competitive exam 2014. Thousands try their luck at the...
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FPSC cancels screen-out test for CSS 2014 exam
Federal Public Service Commission Wednesday announced that it won’t be holding the screen-out test it had announced for the central superior services examination 2014. A public notice put on FPSC...
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To the heirs of Salman Taseer
A new voice for a new Pakistan? Really? On January 04, 2011, I felt dejected, for a person had been brutally killed by a policeman. Other policemen looked on while their extremist colleague emptied his...
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After-Image: Love and writing in Pakistan
By Nadeem Aslam Nadeem Aslam’s The Blind Man’s Garden at a stall at the Lahore Literary Festival. Photo: Arsalan Altaf When I was 12, I smuggled women’s magazines into my uncle’s house for my cousin....
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Love in the Time of Cholera
“It is life, more than death, that has no limits,” writes Marquez. Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells us that love is ageless. Love in the Time of Cholera is a riveting account not only of love, but also of...
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Shaheed or No Shaheed?
State institutions should not get embroiled in theological debates such as this, especially in a country like ours. The fact is that one is dead and that dead can be a martyr for A, but a devil for B....
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Express Tribune shows the way
The Express Tribune is the first ever newspaper in Pakistan that has developed a style guide to be followed by its reporters, writers and editors. Other newspapers and media outlets here either have...
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All praise for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa RTI law
Activists says the post-colonial behavior of the Pakistani state is the same as the colonial state – opaque and secretive. ISLAMABAD: Right to information (RTI) is a contested right in Pakistan as the...
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