Pakistanis hope that the army’s new chief of staff, Raheel Sharif, will crack down on militants and boost security. But can one man change a corrupt legal system and prejudiced security infrastructure? Pakistan has finally found a hero in General Raheel Sharif, the army’s chief of staff since November 2013. In a short time, he has become one of the ...

SANYA: Spain’s Mireia Lalaguna Royo was named the winner of the Miss World 2015 competition on Saturday night in the southern Chinese island resort of Sanya, an event dogged by controversy over China’s refusal to allow Canada’s entrant to attend. Sofia Nikitchuk of Russia was the runner-up and Indonesia’s Maria Harfanti took third place in the final following a lengthy ...

BANGLADESH: Two opposition leaders in Bangladesh have been executed on Sunday in connection with war crimes of 1971. The special court of Bangladesh for the trials of 1971 war-crimes, called International Crime Tribunal, had sentenced Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury and Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid to death in 2013, which was upheld by the Supreme ...

For the ruling classes, history writing is important because they can control and monopolise it and use it to their advantage. In this way they can be remembered by future generations as benefactors and deliverers. In the past, rulers employed historians in order to highlight their achievements and glorify their personalities for which they were rewarded with financial patronage, and ...

The sound of the rabab has a magnetic lure. The nylon or gut strings evoke a soulful serenade, tugging at our heartstrings. Originating from central Afghanistan, the instrument is a staple of Pakistan’s Pukhtun populated musical landscape. Yet, the art of crafting a fine rabab has taken a hit in recent years, with the number of rabab makers swiftly dwindling. ...

While European countries are being lectured about their failure to take in enough refugees, Saudi Arabia – which has taken in precisely zero migrants – has 100,000 air conditioned tents that can house over 3 million people sitting empty. The sprawling network of high quality tents are located in the city of Mina, spreading across a 20 square km valley, ...

Brandon Williams, a 7th grade student with autism, observed his classmate choking during lunch and ran to help. Brandon had a clear idea of what he was to do: the Heimlich maneuver. He’d seen it on Spongebob Squarepants cartoons, and became a hero at school for successfully enacting it. On October 28, Williams lifted a chocking Jessica Pellegrino from her ...

A new and completely lethal android phone killer adware has been discovered by tech security firm Lookout Security. The adware can infect almost 20000 apps downloaded from the any android sources and embeds itself into the OS. Lookout Security has claimed that Adware, which has traditionally been used to aggressively push ads, is now becoming trojanized and sophisticated,” it wrote ...

SYDNEY: Astronomers have discovered what they believe to be the oldest stars ever seen, dating from before the Milky Way Galaxy formed, when the universe was just 300 million years old. The nine stars, found near the centre of the Milky Way, are surprisingly pure but contain material from an even earlier star, which died in an enormous explosion called ...