Five game changers for dumb girls By: Eeshah Omer on November 12, 2017Men don’t necessarily proceed in a politically correct, enlightened fashion to woo the woman of their dreams. Truth be told, there are no dreams for men (except for ‘thug life’ and drowning sorrows in booze). What men think they want and what will actually make them happy are entirely two different things. This is an […]
The ambitious crown prince By: Jawad Zulfiqar on November 10, 2017Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who rose to prominence as the world’s youngest Minister of Defense soon after his father King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud ascended to the royal throne. His foreign policies received much criticism from the international community especially when he led […]
#280characters: Reactions to Twitter’s new feature are beyond hilarious By: Ariba Qureshi on November 8, 2017Twitter has officially unleashed its 280 character count to the masses. The micro-blogging site had originally selected only a small number of accounts to test the longer feature. However, it announced on Tuesday that it would increase the character limit from 140 characters to 280 for all of its users. Netizens around the world woke […]
Remembering Reshma, the nightingale of desert By: Hamza Rao on November 4, 2017In every field, there are only few personalities that stand up and achieve recognition with regards to their extraordinary work and qualify for the criteria that history or our collective memories set for the people to be remembered and to rule the hearts of masses for decades or even centuries. In Pakistani music industry – […]
Pakistan second-worst on Global Gender Gap index By: Web Desk on November 2, 2017LAHORE: The World Economic Forum placed Pakistan as the second worst country on gender equality in its Global Gender Gap index released on Thursday. The index placed Pakistan 143rd out of 144 countries, worst in the South Asian region that has an average remaining gender gap of 34% as noted by the index. Bangladesh, ranked […]
A year after shipyard explosion, Gadani workers await authorities to deliver By: Amar Guriro on November 1, 2017GADANI: Soomri Khan, 50, was at her ramshackle hut in a village near Gadani Mor when she heard the explosion that took away the lives 29 workers at the Gadani shipbreaking yard on November 1 last year. A little later she found out that her two sons – Ghulam Hyder, 18, and Alam Khan, 32 […]
Lahore’s smog returns By: Muhammad Salman Khan on October 31, 2017Once again its the time of the year, when Lahore it seems gets covered with a nasty and almost irritating smog. A haze of thick pollutant smog covers the sky blocking out the sun, obstructing the view when you drive or walk on the road and we hear reports of citizens complaining about the ailments […]
Attacks on journalists in Pakistan – Infographic Timeline By: Wasay Ibrahim Tariq on October 28, 2017The year 2017 has seen a surge in attack on journalists and freedom of expression in Pakistan, reminding those working in the media that the “freedom” can be taken away in a snap. Only today, prominent journalist Ahmed Noorani of The News was assaulted that left him brutally injured. Daily Times has prepared an info-graphic timeline […]
Infographic: All you need to know about NA-4 by-poll By: Hamza Rao on October 26, 2017All eyes are on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s NA-4 constituency which will fill the seat that fell vacant after the death of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf MNA Gulzar Khan on Aug 27. The constituency is crucial not only because by-elections significantly determine the outcomes of general elections, but more importantly, the constituency is a litmus test for Imran Khan’s […]
The curious case of the ‘Pink Mosque’ By: Muhammad Salman Khan on October 26, 2017Every year in Pakistan around one million women are diagnosed with breast cancer that’s like one out of nine women in general and with over 40,000 deaths caused by it annually, Pakistan remains to have the highest rate of breast cancer in Asia according to a research paper published in 2015. But despite being a […]