KABUL: Cultural figures, writers, historians and officials expressed serious concerns over the dramatic move of Iran and Turkey to enlist Masnavi Ma’Navi, collection of renowned Afghan poet Jalal-ud-din Mohammad Balkhi in UNESCO as a common heritage of Iran and Turkey. The attempt of Iran has sparked criticism in Afghanistan because Mawlana Rumi neither born nor lived in Iran. According to ...

Afghanistan has for the first time appointed a woman in the leadership of the Afghan Attorney General Office, taking yet another major step towards increasing the Afghan women share in the government and empowerment of the Afghan women. Ms Maliha Hassan has been appointed as the deputy finance and administrative chief in the Afghan Attorney General Office. She has served ...

A couple in United States got married in an unusual ceremony attended by 1,100 guests but they were all cats, it has been reported. The couple, Louise Veronneau and Dominic Husson, tied the knot outside the city of Parlier in California State of the United States on Tuesday. Originally from Canada, the couple met in Montreal and decided to get ...

INDIA: An Indian woman who is believed to be about 72-year-old has given birth to a baby boy after undergoing IVF treatment, it has been reported. The woman, Daljinder Kaur, celebrated the birth of her son together with her as this was the first successful pregnancy in 46 years of their marriage. She underwent treatment in the past two years ...

The Poles ridicule German food, the Belgians say the Dutch are cheap, while Macedonians pity the sexual prowess of Greek men ‘What’s the difference between the Swedes and the Finns? The Swedes have got nice neighbours’. Or so the joke goes. Photograph: Chesnot/Getty Images Europe is the migrant crisis, the Greek crisis, the euro crisis; It is the CAP, Ecofin ...

Champagne is not only delicious. It turns out that it can also have positive effects on memory. New research is showing that the bubbly drink contains phenols that counteract age-related memory problems, such as dementia. A study from the University of Reading in the UK examined champagne’s impact on memory, revealing that the drink contains phenols, which stimulate signals in ...

Image copyrightZahra HaiderImage captionZahra Haider’s article on sex generated thousands of comments When Pakistani writer Zahra Haider wrote about her pre-marital sexual encounters as a teenager in Islamabad for Vice magazine, social media – as you can imagine – had a lot to say. Haider, now in her 20s, moved to Canada just before her 19th birthday. She wrote that ...

Laila from Swabi set up the small naan-and-chai eatery to fulfill her passion for cooking On the menu is Racket Naan (stuffed with cheese and coriander) and Dumper Naan (nutella-filled) PESHAWAR: It is not a new concept, but in a place like Peshawar when a woman becomes first to open up ‘dhaba’ style open-air café called ‘Naan Sense’, it is ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has remained far from meeting its national and international commitments to protect and promote the rights of children, a report launched on Thursday stated. The report, ‘The state of Pakistan’s children 2015’, was launched by the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (Sparc). It stated that 10 cases of child sexual abuse took place ...

© CBC Sarah Lambersky was breastfeeding her 16-month-old daughter at Rosemount Community Centre in Thornhill. © CBC The mother says she has never been asked to stop breastfeeding before and wants other women to know they have the legal right to do so in public. A city official in Vaughan, Ont., has apologized to a mother who was asked to move to a ...