Three years after they were kicked out, the USA have had their member status restored and a new governing body has big ideas for the progression of the game for both men and women Emma John Was that a whiff of fatted calf we could smell this week? The USA finally returned to the cricketing fold, three years after being …
Speakers pay homage to Fanoos Gujjar, vow to take forward his struggle against exploitation of oppressed people, nations Ali Ahmed Jan Islamabad, Jan 15: Speakers at a gathering stressed the need for unity of all progressive and democratic and secular forces to fight onslaught of the anti-democratic and extremist forces on democratic institutions and exploitation of working class. They …
Herald Report ISLAMABAD Political and youth activists hailing from Gilgit-Baltistan staged a protest rally outside the National Press Club, Islamabad on Friday, seeking justice for a youth who has been murdered in Rawalpindi and recovering a nursing assistant who has gone missing a week ago in Karachi. The call for the protest was given by Baltistan Youth Alliance and joined …
A German court has rejected a lawsuit from Pakistanis against German retailer KiK over responsibility for a factory fire in Karachi. KiK said the blaze was an act of terrorism. Shamil Shams reports from Dortmund. DW BERLIN A German regional court in Dortmund on Thursday ruled against four Pakistanis who had sued the German discount clothing retailer KiK for €30,000 …
International team say ‘spectacular’ data hints at historic breakthrough Astronomers attempting to capture the first images of the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way have given early hints that the ambitious project has been successful. The observations, by the Event Horizon Telescope, are expected to be unveiled in March in one of the most eagerly awaited scientific …
IT HAS FOR so long been a country of such unmet potential that the scale of Pakistan’s dereliction towards its people is easily forgotten. Yet on every measure of progress, Pakistanis fare atrociously. More than 20m children are deprived of school. Less than 30% of women are employed. Exports have grown at a fifth of the rate in Bangladesh and …
The reasons are varied but likely include the age-old non-science of what makes news and what doesn’t Helen Davidson Australia, Thailand and the Gulf states have been inextricably linked in two global news stories lately, when two young people faced being forcibly returned to the places and people they fled simply because they happened to step foot in Bangkok. Rahaf …
AFP India’s lower house passed on Tuesday legislation that will grant citizenship to members of certain religious minorities but not Muslims, sparking protests in the country’s northeast. The bill covers select groups — including Hindus, Christians and Sikhs — who moved from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan and who have lived in India for at least six years. Muslims are excluded, …
Pakistani dramas and soap operas, many of which seek to challenge the deeply patriarchal country’s conservative taboos, are immensely popular. AFP ISLAMABAD – Pakistani television channels may no longer show “intimate moments between couples” or “bed scenes”, the conservative country’s media regulator has announced, complaining of too much feminist content and warning that such “bold themes” offend viewers. The Pakistan …
Rina Saeed Khan LAHORE At his house on busy Mall Road in Lahore, environmental lawyer Rafay Alam runs three air purifiers around the clock, keeps his windows shut and stuffs towels into the gaps under his doors. Some winter days, when the city’s smog is particularly bad, “I don’t send my daughter to school,” he admits. “I am not going …
