What do I risk losing by writing down my family’s stories in English?
Jamil Jan Kochai on traditions of Afghan oral storytelling By Jamil Jan Kochai Listen, Before I read Kipling or Faulkner or Pynchon,
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Biggest fiction bestsellers of the last 100 years
By Emily Temple As the year draws to a close, some of us like to look forward, and some of us backward—and
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Exploring Tajikistan’s one & only ski resort
By: Francis Xavier Tajikistan is one of the most mountainous countries in the world with over 50% of its land
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Siachen, the world’s highest militarized glacier
Runyu Liang This Photo Friday highlights Siachen Glacier, the world’s highest battlefield, located on the India and Pakistan border in
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Protest against disappearance of a paramedic & murder of two students
Herald Report ISLAMABAD Political and youth activists hailing from Gilgit-Baltistan staged a protest rally outside the National Press Club, Islamabad
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German court rejects case of deadly Pakistan factory fire
A German court has rejected a lawsuit from Pakistanis against German retailer KiK over responsibility for a factory fire in
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Figo, Kaka seek ‘promise’ of football in cricket-mad Pakistan
AFP KARACHI: Portuguese great Luis Figo and Brazilian star Kaka on Thursday (Jan 10) vowed to help develop the “great
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Scientists close to first sighting of black hole in the Milky Way
International team say ‘spectacular’ data hints at historic breakthrough Astronomers attempting to capture the first images of the black hole
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Nepali woman and children die in ‘menstrual hut’
REUTERS KATHMANDU (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A woman and her two sons suffocated to death in Nepal after she was
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Nepal welcomes record number of tourists in 2018
KATHMANDU Tourist arrivals in Nepal topped one million for the first time in 2018 — boosted by increased visitors from
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The costs of discrimination: How equal rights can boost economic growth
New research suggests that a more equal society is a more productive one IT IS OFTEN said that rapid social
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Praetorian penury: Pakistan’s army is to blame for the poverty of the country’s 208m citizens
IT HAS FOR so long been a country of such unmet potential that the scale of Pakistan’s dereliction towards its
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Red moon rising: How China could dominate science
Should the world worry? A HUNDRED YEARS ago a wave of student protests broke over China’s great cities. Desperate to
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120 days on, Port Qasim dock workers continue protest
Over 1,000, workers hold protest rally in Karachi to press their demands; Workers union threatens to shift the protest camp
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Minorities’ long wait I.A. Rehman
I.A. Rehman INDICATIONS that the government is planning to act proactively in addressing the grievances of the minority communities
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