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Literary festival: ‘Good fiction all about storytelling’
LAHORE: “I do not write specifically for a Pakistani audience. I think the situations I write about in my fiction are human situations and they have no specific significance for a Pakistani...
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Schoolchildren’s safety: 22 children, teacher injured in classroom fire
LAHORE: Twenty-two primary school children and their teacher received burn injuries when a fire broke out in the classroom at a private school in Shahdara Town on Thursday. Two of the children were...
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Modifying Article 239(4): BJP bill ignores Senate panel’s suggestion
LAHORE: The Bahawalpur Janoobi Punjab bill, which was tabled in the Upper House on Thursday, did not incorporate a Senate committee’s recommendation to modify Article 239(4), lawmakers from South...
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LHC irked with MFA's lack of progress on repatriating Pakistanis in Afghan jail
LAHORE: Five months after it was announced that six Pakistanis detained in an Afghan jail were to be released, the Lahore High Court heard on Friday that the men are yet to be repatriated, before...
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LeJ leader Malik Ishaq detained in Rahim Yar Khan jail
MULTAN / BAHALWALPUR: Top leader of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Malik Ishaq was detained for one month on Friday, Express News reported. Ishaq was earlier detained in his house, however since the Quetta...
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Abduction attempt: Petitioner told to approach SHO
LAHORE: An additional district and sessions judge directed a petitioner – who wants to register an FIR against three women for trying to abduct his children – to approach the SHO concerned to record...
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Efroze chemicals: FIRs ordered against cops for defying bail
LAHORE: The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the registration of an FIR against two city police officers for arresting Efroze Chemical Marketing and Sales Director Nadir Khan Feroze who was on interim...
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Campaign: Anti-dengue day fever
LAHORE: An anti-dengue day will be observed throughout the province on February 24 on the instructions of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, to educate people about precautionary measures to prevent a...
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Centenary celebrations: Two-day education conference kicks off at KC
LAHORE: Kinnaird College for Women has played a pivotal role in nurturing independent thinking among its graduates who have risen to key positions in their professions, speakers at the inaugural...
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School fire: Supervisor arrested, 2 children discharged from hospital
LAHORE: Shahdara Town police have arrested an administrator of the school where a fire on Thursday injured 22 children and their teacher. Two of the children were discharged on Friday while 20...
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Art exhibition: Lahore, Lahore hai
LAHORE: An exhibition aimed at generating a dialogue between art and narrative, opened at the Rohtas II Art Gallery on Friday. The show, a part of the Lahore Literature Festival, features eight...
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A life in writing: ‘Had I been in Pakistan, I wouldn’t be a writer’
LAHORE: How good can you become, at 27, at a foreign language that you started learning in your late teens? If Pakistani-British writer Nadeem Aslam, who turned 47 this month, is anything to go by,...
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Constitutional guarantees: ‘Drone strikes violate fundamental rights’
LAHORE: Chief Justice (CJ) Umar Ata Bandial of the Lahore High Court on Friday said the killing of innocent people in drone attacks violated fundamental rights of people as enshrined in the...
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Emerging talent: Afia Aslam of the Desi Writers Lounge on LLF and aspiring...
LAHORE: “There is a pseudo-elitist culture one witnesses at literary festivals…people like us, who are in the field [of literature] and publishing work, are often left out. So when the Lahore...
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Yet again: Qadri unveils 10-point manifesto
MULTAN: “My final contest will be on March 17 in Rawalpindi’s Liaqat Bagh. I will then tell the nation whether to vote in an election or pursue a revolution,” Awami Tehreek president and chairman of...
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Air pollution: Stone crushers feel weight of law
ISLAMABAD: Stone crushers fell under the weight of the law on Friday, as six plants near Taxila were fined for operating illegally. The owners of the six stone crushing plants were fined Rs30,000...
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Abid Saqi wins LHCBA elections
Candidates backed by People’s Lawyers Forum and other groups have emerged victorious in the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) elections, Radio Pakistan reported. According to the results‚ Abid...
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Mohammed Hanif: ‘Satire is like a sugarcoated pill’
LAHORE: “Pakistan is a post satirical society. Make any kind of stuff and people here will actually buy it”, said author of A Case of Exploding Mangoes Mohammed Hanif during a session on satire,...
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‘Hold literary festivals in all big cities’
LAHORE: Hameed Haroon traced the glorification of the jihadi in popular culture in his talk titled ‘The Holy Warrior and the Enemy (1958-2008): Film, Newsmedia and Music in Frontline Pakistan’ at the...
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LLF 2013: ‘The key is to write about what you know’
LAHORE: “You don’t really choose what you write about. Writing is like falling in love. You don’t choose the person you fall in love with”, said writer Daniyal Mueenuddin, speaking at the session...
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