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ECP swings into action over videos of alleged voter buying
Taking notice of video clips and footage allegedly showing Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) workers distributing money among the voters of NA-133, in exchange for...
Bowlers dominate third day of Chittagong Test
Bangladesh's Taijul Islam claimed his ninth five-wicket haul while Pakistan's Abid Ali hit a century as the first Test remained delicately poised in Chittagong...
Vying with vultures: Widespread poverty has some Hondurans living off rubbish
Marlon Escoto has been rummaging through rubbish since he was 14, trying to chase off vultures while picking out pieces of plastic and fragments...
Spices’ exports surge 19pc to over $31mn in four months
The exports of spices from the country witnessed an increase of 18.83 percent during the first four months of the current financial year 2021-22...
International Cake Day celebrated at COTHM
On November 26, the College of Tour and Hotel Management (COTHM) celebrated its first ever International Cake Day. The event, with the support of...
Celebrations begin for PTV’s 57th anniversary
Pakistan Television Network (PTV) turned 57 on November 26, and celebrations from its stations in various cities have started surfacing.On Facebook, senior director, and...
Govt official’s social media post
The news is that a social media post is a serious thing.A catchy post can bring you lots of likes, wah, wah and a...
Lights, prayers, music, food ready as Hanukkah begins today
With lighting of traditional lampstands, special prayers, food, music, and a family and community focused get together, Jews in Pakistan and elsewhere are ready...
Debt burden: PTI’s broken promise
The economic scorecard of the ruling PTI is only exposing the government's inability - rather incompetency - in taking the country out of the...
Will we ever listen to the future of the country
Students across the country held the fourth version of the Students Solidarity March on November 26, 2021. The students first and foremost demanded the...
Protection of personal data
The recent remarks made by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) should send alarm bells ringing in the power corridors of Pakistan. During the recently...
Women’s Cricket World Cup qualifiers canceled amid new COVID-19 variant
The International Cricket Council (ICC) today announced that the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup qualifiers have been canceled due to the breakout of a...
ECP summons PPP’s candidate over NA-133 code violations
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Saturday took notice of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) bribing voters in NA-133 to buy their loyalties.Videos went...
Abid Ali becomes fourth fastest Pakistani batsman to complete 1000 Test runs
National team opener Abid Ali has become the fourth Pakistani batsman to complete the fastest 1000 runs in Test cricket.Ali performed this feat in...
Smash and All Rounder: Sania Mirza and Shoaib Malik’s signature perfumes launched by J.
The sports celebrity couple, Sania Mirza and Shoaib Malik, have just launched their signature perfumes through Junaid Jamshed’s brand, 'J.'. The names of the...
LHC stays its own judicial proceedings
A single-judge bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday stayed the proceedings of another single-judge bench.LHC Chief Justice Muhammad Ameer Bhatti, on...
Kiln owners slam penalties, demand thorough solution
Despite all the brick kilns in the Faisalabad district being shifted to zigzag technology, the desired results of the anti-smog campaign were not being...
Pakistani jewellery, gemstones gaining foothold in China
Pakistan’s jewellery has entered China for years, and the reasonable price has always been one of the main selling points.Now, by building brands and...
Umair Jaswal becomes brand ambassador for BMW Motorrad
Singer and sometime actor Umair Jaswal took to Instagram on November 26 to state that he had been appointed as the brand ambassador for...
Pakistan, China compete, cooperate on textile exports
China and Pakistan are both major producers and exporters of textiles and surely there is a degree of competition between both countries.However, the different...
Siraj proposes reserve seat quota for overseas Pakistanis
Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Ameer Sirajul Haq has stated that the government should reserve seats in the parliament for overseas Pakistanis.“Expatriates should elect their representatives from...
‘Liberals Ka Hatmi Faisla’
Olomopolo media is back with a bang! The performing arts platform known for subtly addressing socio-political issues through artistic, literary and cultural events is...
‘The Island of Missing Trees’: Another perspective
Elif Shafak, author of the acclaimed book Forty Rules of Love, recently penned a novel, The Island of Missing Trees.A tale of love and...
Musical ‘The Addams Family’ leaves audience spellbound
The City School's theatrical enactment of The Addams Family kicked off on Friday evening at Lahore’s Alhamra Arts Council.Carrying two performances to cater to...
Remembering the legend Zafar Ali Khan
God has created many people with extraordinary qualities but only few are those who make proper use of them. They serve humanity with their...
Land mafia in Sindh
Lang-grabbing is taking place all over the country in different forms and various pretexts but the mafia in Sindh has taken a lead in...
Does Pakistan’s constitution ensure women’s protection?
Kofi Anan said, "Violence against women is the most shameful, pervasive human rights violation." By beginning with a statement from one of the UN's...
Fighting smog
The Punjab government has resorted to shutting down schools and offices three days a week to combat the challenge of dense smog in Lahore....
Petrol pumps on strike
The one-day strike by the Pakistan Petroleum Dealers Association (PPDA) on Thursday shows that petrol is a weapon of power in the hands of...
Direct flights to Kingdom
The act of allowing direct flights from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia is in line with gradual easing of post-COVID-19 travel restrictions imposed by different...
On Covid fronts
After an almost two-year long battle with COVID-19, the positivity rate has significantly been mitigated in Pakistan. The curve has seen a drop in...
Two more infants die of malnutrition in Thar
Two more infants died at the Mithi Civil Hospital, in Sindh's drought-hit district of Tharparkar on Friday, due to the health problems caused by...
EPA bars officials from interacting with media
After badly failing in protecting the environment, the Punjab Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Friday directed all officials not to interact with media persons.The...
Students take to the streets for freedom and future
Thousands of students took to the streets in all the metropolitan cities in the country and demonstrated against the government's policies related to education...
Southee five-for triggers Kiwi fightback against India
India finished the second day of the first Test on the defensive with New Zealand's openers unbeaten on 129 after Tim Southee's five-for restricted...
Calls for justice raised after second suicide at CMC
Note: The tweets hyperlinked in this news report may contain graphic images that are disturbing for some readers. Viewer discretion is strongly advised.Several have...
TLP head office emerges as top destination of politicians across the divide
The Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan’s head office in Lahore has emerged as a top destination of politicians across the political divide following the release of the...
Netherlands cricketers seek flight out of South Africa
The Netherlands's cricket tour of South Africa was under threat on Friday after a European ban was imposed on travel from South Africa following...
Bitcoin drops to $53,721 as cryptos tank
The cryptocurrency market plunged on Thursday, with the market capitalisation shedding 7.7 percent to reach $2.55 trillion as of 1210 hours GMT. The largest...
PM bestows BoP with top bank award for Kamyab Jawan Program
The Bank of Punjab (BOP) has been given Top Bank Award under Kamyab Jawan Program by the Honorable Prime Minister Imran Khan at the...
Sadness turns to anger as fresh details arise in rare lion’s death
The plot for the story in which a White Lion died due to negligence in Karachi Zoo on Tuesday, has thickened, after it surfaced...
Balochistan’s underdeveloped area awaiting girls college to be fully functional for more than a...
The Government Girls College Kohlu in Balochistan has been non-functional despite the passage of several years and protests and promises on part of citizens...
Embracing the struggle for identity
For the past few days, the Siraiki Students Council at the Punjab University has been protesting outside the VC office. The main reason for...
Bangladesh set to rise to ‘developing country’ status
Bangladesh is set to jump one step above from its status as one of the lowest developed countries to a developing country by 2026,...
Ustad Ali Raza spellbinds with his performance in Alhamra’s ‘Funkar Hamare’ series
Alhamra Art Council’s third week of its weekly music series called ‘Funkar Hamare’ was held with Ustad Ali Raza making it to the stage...
Unsolicited advice: Thanks but no thanks!
I am often asked about whether or not someone should offer their partner, friend, family member or adult child advice. My response is always...
Reading Kishwar Naheed’s tortured dirge for Noor Mukadam following International Day for Elimination of...
'The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence' is an annual international campaign by the United Nations that kicks off on 25 November, the...
Journalism fraternity in uproar after attack on Ambreen Fatima
Great hue and cry and condemnation has ensued after an unidentified assailant attacked journalist Ambreen Fatima’s car when she left her house with her...
Influencing media decisions
The leaked audio clip of the PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz must act as a catalyst towards forming media policies that are free from...
Unending crises
There seems no end to the sufferings of citizens as the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government has literally failed to deal with recurrent crises faced...
Animal abuse
Mahatma Gandhi once said, "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." Karachi...
Vehicle-free day
Clearly, the idea of abandoning vehicles for a working day during the week is fantastic and can have far reaching effects on our financial...
Riding on the growth-horse
The news on the economic front of the country has been making headlines since the past week. While most have been around the dwindling...
Babar Azam is badly missing batting coach
Babar Azam on Thursday said that the team is in good spirits and will try to keep up the momentum.Talking to journalists in his...
Five more people test HIV positive in Ratodero
HIV positive cases continue to emerge as five people have been detected in a single family of the Lolai community residing in Allah Abad...
Opposition slams govt’s ‘apathy’ to energy crisis
The opposition lashed out at the government over the ongoing petrol crisis, as thousands of motorists queued up outside petrol pumps to get their...
Unknown assailants attack car of Ahmed Noorani’s journalist-wife Ambreen Fatima
Unknown assailants attacked the car of journalist Ambreen Fatima, wife of journalist Ahmed Noorani, and broke its windscreen by hitting it with clubs.According to...
Man City, PSG and Real Madrid among Champions League qualifiers
Manchester City beat Paris Saint-Germain 2-1 on Wednesday but both clubs qualified for the last 16 of the Champions League, along with Real Madrid,...
EPD minister wants duty-free import of eco-friendly industrial machinery
To combat the menace of pollution in the province, Punjab Environment Minister Muhammad Rizwan has proposed to withdraw duty on the import of eco-friendly...
SNGPL MD assures uninterrupted gas supply to domestic users
Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) Managing Director Ali J. Hamdani, accompanied by senior management visited Bahawalpur Regional Office.The managing Director was briefed regarding...
Pakistan Awami Tehreek’s Gandapur says Sharifs defaced Pakistan
Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) Secretary General Khurram Nawaz Gandapur has held the Sharif family responsible for ‘defacing Pakistan’.In a statement issued from the party’s...
‘Mere Samne Wali Khirki Mein’: NAPA to bring a romantic comedy on stage
The National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA), Karachi, has just announced its first stage play after two years of restrictions on theatre hall gatherings,...
South Korea raises interest rates as inflation, household risks grow
South Korea's central bank raised interest rates for the second time since the pandemic began and revised up its inflation outlook on Thursday as...
Theatre plays to look forward to in Islamabad
Theatre goers need not be disappointed at all if cinemas are brimming with people, for with the uplift of the ban on social gatherings,...
Students Solidarity March planned tomorrow to demand restoration of student unions
Preparations are underway for the Progressive Students’ Collective’s (PSC’s) Student Solidarity March (SSM) 2021 on November 26, in which throngs of students are expected...
New Interpol president has criminal complaints against him in five countries
The Interpol has selected United Arab Emirates (UAE) Interior Ministry Inspector General Major General Ahmed Naser al-Raisi, who has criminal complaints of human rights...
Panic grips country as dealers’ strike causes most petrol pumps to close
Majority of the petrol pumps across the country remained closed as petroleum dealers went on a countrywide strike on Thursday for an indefinite period...
Could there be humans elsewhere in the cosmos?
Scientists and researchers have begun mulling over the idea that a similar, high level of evolution as seen in humans, could possibly be found...
Posters revealed for HUM TV’s much-awaited drama, ‘Sang-e-Mah’
HUM TV has finally started unveiling the cast’s posters for its much-awaited drama serial, Sang-e-Mah. One poster which was revealed on November 23 had...
‘Khaani’ duo of Sana Javed and Feroze Khan to make a comeback in another...
Ace director Aehsun Talish is bringing together the much-adored on-screen couple of Sana Javed and Feroze Khan to television screens once again, this time...
PBC demands inquiry into audio leak that clouds judicial independence
The Pakistan Bar Council has demanded that a probe be launched into the recent audio clip that surfaced in a report and put a...
India’s genocide strategy in IOJK
What India wants in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJK) should be the basic question to understand the systematic process of Kashmiri genocide since...
From fantastic tea to highest Indian award
Indian Air force pilot Abhinandan Varthaman refuses to go away from the media limelight. Both the Indian and Pakistani media. Both sides treat him...
Something which government must not do
The invitees list of the Asma Jahangir Conference which was held in Lahore over the weekend created a lot of noise. A diverse group...
Why we must visit animal parks once in our lifetime?
Many of us have visited zoological gardens at least once in our lifetime when we were kids or teens and even in our young...
Pak-Oman relations
The fresh pledge made by Pakistan and Oman to boost ties is a continuation of exemplary relations between the two brotherly nations. Lately, Oman's...
The plight of minorities
A spike in reported cases of forced conversions has put a question mark on the religious freedom of minorities. Thirty-eight cases of forced conversions...
Booming startups
The modern entrepreneurship has changed altogether with the boom of startups equipped with tech tools. Thanks to this technological revolution in the business industry...
Billion-dollar question about encroached land
Every inch of the country is precious, but only to the land grabbers who know its value. Lately, the government has been awakening to...
Student found dead in alleged suicide case at CMC Larkana
A fourth year MBBS student of Chandka Medical College (CMC) was found hung from a ceiling fan on Wednesday in mysterious conditions in the...
Sri Lanka four wickets away from big win over West Indies
Sri Lanka need just four wickets to win the first Test against West Indies in Galle after setting the all-but-impossible target of 348 on...
Dodo Bheel murder: Rs10mn compensation imposed as ‘forceful patch-up’
Aalim Bheel has announced that his family was under tremendous pressure from powerful and influential figures of the area to patch up with the...
A battle of civil and political quarters
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Zubair Umar seemingly locked horns with journalist Meher Bokhari on her show as she border-line grilled him over the...
Azaan Kamran wins KP Age Group U11 Junior Squash Championship
Azaan Kamran clinched the trophy after recording victory against Mamoon Asif in the final of the U11 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Age Group Junior Squash Championship...
PSX plummets again, sheds 2,100 points in three days
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) plummeted for the third consecutive day on Wednesday, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index shedding another 584.82 points (-1.3 percent)...
A globe enveloped in scandals and leaks
Pakistan exists in the age of audio-video leaks, which have brought to light sex scandals and political controversies, as tapes including top politicians, senior...
Last episode of ‘Mohabbat Chor Di Mein Ne’ surfaces as an inspiration
It is very rarely that we come across characters in contemporary drama serials who have goals other than finding the right person to spend...
Pakistan’s recent policy measures
Fitch Ratings believes Pakistan's recent policy adjustments and demonstrated access to external financing, as well as its commitment to a market-determined exchange rate, offset...
NASA proactively launches spacecraft to divert asteroid off course
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has launched a spacecraft in an experimental attempt to steer an asteroid off course, should a similar...
Celebrities pay homage to Parveen Shakir on her 69th birth anniversary
On what would have been the 69th birth anniversary of the woman behind the poetic work, ‘Khushboo’, Daily Minute Mirror got in touch with...
India to introduce bill prohibiting cryptocurrencies
The Indian government will announce a bill to prohibit cryptocurrencies and make a framework for digital currency backed by the Reserve Bank of India,...
Alizeh Shah under fire for misbehaving with veteran actor-director Yasir Nawaz
The bold and beautiful Alizeh Shah, admired for her looks as well as acting skills, is not so adorable when it comes to her...
French footballer Benzema found guilty in sex tape blackmail trial
Karim Benzema, a 33-year-old footballer has been found guilty for blackmailing a fellow footballer with a sex tape.A judge on Wednesday gave the decision...
Garrett Discovery receives threat over Fact Focus report
American forensic lab Garrett Discovery that verified former Supreme Court chief justice (SCCJ) Mian Saqib Nisar’s alleged audio clip, has said that it received...
PCB restrained from signing agreement with any entity except PTV for broadcasting sport content
A civil court on Wednesday restrained Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) from entering into agreement with any other entity except Pakistan Television (PTV) to telecast...
