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Li Keqiang’s first visit to Pakistan and confusing plans for peace
Excitement is abuzz as the Chinese Premier begins his visit to Pakistan today. Mobile services have been suspended in Rawalpindi and Islamabad as a preemptive security measure and the Pakistan Army has...
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Altaf Hussain’s UK investigation: Hold your horses, Pakistan, only time will...
Two months ago, there was a press conference between British High Commissioner to Pakistan, Mr Adam Thompson and a soiree of Pakistani journalists. The purpose of this meeting was to brief the media...
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Post your BB Pin to Facebook! Seriously, it’s the ‘it’ thing to do!
At the beginning of 2013, when the demise of BlackBerry (BB) was fairly evident, BlackBerry CEO Thorsen Heins first announced, in May 2013, that the BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) application will be soon...
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Disaster victims are boring, lets cover Bollywood instead
Did you know that the estimated number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) is around one million according to the...
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Oh great government of Pakistan, take notice of the female aid workers in...
On my recent trip to Balochistan, I came across examples of how women folk fare in tribal set-ups. While we, in the urban centres, believe that women are usually ignored and not allowed to contribute...
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What happens after 1000 days?
Contagious peals of laughter dissolved the silence that my cameraman Wilson had requested in the small village hut made of clay and bush with a ceiling of dried palm leaves, as Sajida candidly...
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Riding a motorbike? Driving a small car? Meet your harassers!
As a reporter in Islamabad, my job mostly requires me to look-after assignments in the Red Zone. Security measures are stricter in the area and are routinely “beefed up” when the country faces any kind...
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Is a Muslim scholar allowed to disrespect a woman?
Wow! That was my first reaction when I came across a certain incident making waves on social media, catching the attention of people globally. A gutsy Lebanese female TV host, Rima Karaki, strong-armed...
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Indian journalist burnt alive: The price of doing your job right
Life – that’s the price one may have to pay for doing one’s job the way it is supposed to be done. On May 5th, a female aganwadi (children’s play group) worker was gang raped in India’s Uttar Pradesh....
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This time, it was Zaman Mehsud’s turn to be silenced
This time it was Zaman Mehsud’s turn. The 40-year-old journalist was sprayed with bullets as he rode his motorbike in Tank district yesterday, November 3, 2015, a day after the world observed the...
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