The Supreme Court of Pakistan has banned the transfer of property in Karachi, seeking complete record of land records torched in the aftermath of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. During the hearing of a case pertaining to the implementation of the apex court order in the suo motu case related to frequent targeted killings […]
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The tactician is being subjected to the Federation’s politics despite not doing anything to disturb their activities. Serbia’s Zavisa Milosavljevic took up the challenge of rescuing Pakistan from the depths of International football, but although results have not really gone his way. There has been definite progression since the days of Tariq Lutfi. Zavisa earned […]
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Fire has evoked in a fifteen-story building of State Life Insurance Corporation of Pakistan in Karachi and one person has reportedly lost his life. According to media reports fire broke out at the eighth floor of the 15-storey State Life building situated near Zainab Market. A man, in a desperate attempt, jumped out of the window to […]
Pakistan Wednesday successfully conducted the test launch of Medium Range Ballistic Missile (MRBM) Hatf V (Ghauri), says Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR). The launch was conducted by a Strategic Missile Group of the Army Strategic Force Command on the culmination of a field training exercise that was aimed at testing the operational readiness of […]
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Ruling out any chance of alliance with former President Pakistan Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has said that no alliance will be made with past dictators before or after the upcoming elections. Expressing the post-election policies of his party in an interview with a private TV channel, the cricketer turned politician said […]
In the opening scenes of Skyfall, the latest instalment of the James Bond franchise, the world’s favourite MI6 operative chases a bad guy across Istanbul on motorcycles, through the city’s Grand Bazaar and over its minaret-backed rooftops. Bond jumps and weaves with such verve and ease it’s like he knows his way around the city. […]
The British royal is known for championing high street as well as designer fashion, but didn’t accept a package sent by the reality TV star and her sisters Khloe and Kourtney from their new Dorothy Perkins range. A source told The Examiner magazine: “Kate is hardly going to turn up for an event with […]
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It happens occasionally that I screen an art-house film, usually foreign, and have no idea what I’ve just seen. Usually in those cases, I feel manipulated and condescended to. In extreme cases — like, say, anything recent by Jean-Luc Godard — I feel like one of those angry hominids in 2001: A Space Odyssey, tossing […]
Skyfall, the 44-year-old Brit’s third outing as the world’s best-loved superspy, is set to become the highest-grossing film in the franchise’s 50-year history but Craig was playing it as cool as his on-screen alter ego when he flew into Sydney airport yesterday, ahead of the film’s Australian premiere at the State Theatre tonight. Clearly, […]
How this is as a man of the people: The president of Uruguay, José Mujica, has earned a nickname, “el president mas pobre” (translation: “poorest president”). The 77-year-old recently admitted to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo that he donates almost all of his presidential salary, making him the poorest, or, as Univision pointed out, […]
A turning point in 20th century war history is the focus of this fact-based account of the 1942-1943 battle of Stalingrad, in which the Germans were finally defeated by Russian influence — one of the bloodiest battles in World War II history. The film stars Jude Law as Vassili; a marksman from the Urals […]
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The new premises of the UK’s only homeless people’s professional theatre company have been given the seal of approval by their ambassador Kate Winslet. Cardboard Citizens, a Tower Hamlets based Theatre Company that works with people who are homeless or who have direct experience with homelessness, moved into a former art gallery on Greenfield […]
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