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LAHORE: The Government College University has identified the hostel room where Dr Allama Muhammad Iqbal resided between 1895 and 1900. “The cubicle, located at the then boarding house (now Allama Iqbal Hostel) of the GCU is still in same condition as it was during Allama Iqbal’s stay. No renovation or alteration has been made to it,” GCU Vice Chancellor Prof ...

HYDERABAD: Adviser to the Sindh chief minister on information Maula Bux Chandio has said the federal minister for interior Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan behaves like a viceroy towards the province. The prime minister had asked him to visit Sindh but he did not condescend to see the Sindh chief minister, neither did he take the trouble to attend the senate ...

د پاکستان حکومت د سعودي عرب سره  اوگه په اوگه  د ودریدلو او د حرمین شریفین د تحفظ خپل لوظ یو وار بیا په یو داسې ناقراره وخت کې تکرار کړی دی چې په منځني ختيز کې په فرقه ایزه بنیادونو د جگړې ورېځې خورې شوې دي-   د سيمې د چارو ځاېي او نړیوال څا رونکي واېي چې  د تهران اود ...

ISLAMABAD: China on Saturday took notice of the recent political divide among local leaders over China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and urged the political parties to address their difference in order to create favourable conditions for the completion of CPEC project. The People’s Republic hoped that the relevant political parties in Pakistan could strengthen communication and coordination on CPEC to ...

Police use water cannon and pepper spray on anti-immigration Pegida protesters Witnesses said some protesters were aiming fireworks, rocks and even flower pots at police DEUTZSCHLAND: Water cannons and pepper spray have been used to push back more than a thousand anti-immigration protesters in Cologne as anger mounted in a demonstration following attacks on New Year’s Eve. Pegida (Patriotic Europeans ...

AFGHANISTAN: The preparatory or quadrilateral meeting of Afghanistan, Pakistan, the United States and China for talks with Taliban would be held  in Islamabad on Monday. Afghanistan would be represented by Deputy Foreign Minister Hekmat Khalil Karzai and Pakistan by Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry. The U.S. and China would be reportedly represented by their special representatives for Afghanistan and Pakistan region. The conference ...

How one doctor’s inspirational leadership has made free, top-class public healthcare a reality in Pakistan. Dr Adib Rizvi’s passion means that today, more than a million patients a year receive top-class medical treatment in Pakistan at no cost. The public healthcare system in Pakistan, as in many developing countries, struggles with a lack of resources. The result is that specialist ...

Yesterday a video began circulating that featured a very articulate older man telling actor Ahsan Khan his life story. But this wasn’t a segment on a TV show. Khan was out in about in Karachi when he spotted the man on the streets. He was homeless and destitute and had a sad story to tell, which Khan recorded on camera ...

SYRIA: A woman has been executed by her own son in the Syrian city of Raqqa after she urged him to leave the group, it has been reported. The woman was accused of ‘apostasy’ after the ISIS militant reported her for trying to persuade him to leave the terror group, activists in Syria said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights ...

AFGHANISTAN: The loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group have beheaded at least seven people including Taliban insurgents in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. A local official speaking on the condition of anonymity confirmed to Ashna TV/Voice of America that the ISIS loyalists have beheaded 6 Taliban insurgents and one Afghan soldier in Achin district. ...