Timeline: the life and times of Z.A. Bhutto By: Web Desk on April 4, 2018Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) founder and former prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s 39th death anniversary is being observed countrywide on Wednesday. 4 years after being sworn in as the prime minister in 1973, Bhutto was removed from power on July 5, 1977 by General Zia ul-Haque. He was sent to jail in the Mahmood Ali Kasuri […]
PTI lawmaker’s absurd demand of banning ‘talaq’ in TV dramas By: Farhan Janjua on April 4, 2018A Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawmaker has moved Punjab Assembly to ban the word ‘talaaq’ (meaning ‘divorce’) from TV dramas, because “they affect the society negatively”. It does raise your eyebrows when you hear this news for the first time, and you might wonder, like I did, if this was backed by a research. But no! […]
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s political career in retrospect By: Web Desk on April 4, 2018Zulfikar Ali Bhutto returned to Pakistan after completing his studies in Berkeley and Oxford, and training as a barrister at Lincoln’s Inn, and joined President Iskander Mirza’s cabinet as the minister of commerce. Mirza’s government was removed after a short stint. Bhutto was made the minister of Water and Power, Communications and Industry in the then army […]
Five craziest beauty trends rocking 2018 By: Ayesha Anis on April 3, 2018When it comes to beauty trends, it almost seems like there is nothing that can stop the beauty gurus. Just when you think the beauty world has run out of ideas, they serve us up on a plate with some more bonker trends. Lately, there have been much more weirder and wilder beauty trends on […]
Remembering Nazia Hassan, her top 5 songs By: Waqas Habib Rana on April 3, 2018The Queen of pop Nazia Hassan was born on this day in 1965 in Karachi. She went on to rule the world of pop music in Pakistan at a young age of fifteen. She left us too soon at the age of 35 in August 2000, but her songs live on and the tunes have […]
Google honours Nazia Hassan on 53rd birthday By: Web Desk on April 3, 2018Exactly at midnight, Google started displaying this brand new doodle paying tribute to original pop diva of Pakistan Nazia Hassan. The late pop icon would have turned 53rd today. Google honours prominent personalities and occasions with special logos that it calls ‘doodles’. This doodle is not only being showed to users in Pakistan but also […]
Some of the most hilarious Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively moments on social media By: Eeshah Omer on April 2, 2018Hollywood has traced its steps through some shocking breakup legacy over the past few years. Let it be an end to long-term couple goals and out of the ordinary divorces, news all the way from Brangelina to Zigi calling it quits, has left our hearts never really healing the same way that it used to […]
Daily Times celebrates its 15th anniversary today By: Web Desk on April 2, 2018April 2 has marked the 15th anniversary of one of the most read English newspapers in Pakistan, Daily Times. The paper was launched on April 2, 2002 by the martyred former governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer. On the occasion of the paper’s 15th birthday, Editor-in-chief Shehryar Taseer said in a Twitter message that the Daily Times has […]
Using social media to tackle censorship of condom ads in Islamic republic By: Farhan Janjua on April 1, 2018Pakistan has a soaring population of nearly 208 million people and counting. An estimated 133,000 persons in Pakistan live with HIV and/or AIDS as noted by speakers on World AIDS Day a couple of months ago. They also noted that majority of these people are not even aware of their infection and are not getting […]
Five most beautiful kits to round-up the World Cup 2018 By: Ahmad Hassan Malik on March 31, 2018It’s that time of the quadrennial when the FIFA World Cup is here. For a nation that is stereotyped as being cricket obsessed, believe me when I say this, us Pakistanis comprise a niche market that pretty much caters to obsession with football as well. I mean, I did cry like a little school girl […]