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Renowned senior lawyer and human rights activist Asma Jahangir passed away in Lahore on Sunday, DawnNews reported. She is survived by a son and two daughters. The family told DawnNews that Jahangir had suffered from a cardiac arrest and was…

There are allegations of irregularities regarding allocation of flats built for wounded freedom fighters. Out of 84 flats, 33 flats have been allocated. And 13 persons have illegally grabbed 26 flats out of these 33. Although 51 flats are…

What is disappointing about Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury, a merciless takedown of the first eight months of the Trump presidency, is that it does not end in the way it should. It leads you into thinking that President Donald Trump is now…

Zainab. A seven-year-old little girl. A child. Raped. Tortured. Murdered. She was not the only one. There were more like her in the city of the Sufi poet, Baba Bulleh Shah, Kasur, where a serial killer and paedophile hunted several other…

In central Sri Lanka, energy-efficient stoves are helping small businesses to flourish and encourage low carbon development. Rows of bottled savoury snacks, known as murukku, are ready for collection at TAW Bandara’s modest home in…

“If you could visit any place in Pakistan, where would you go?” asks Amardeep Singh whenever he gives a talk to introduce his recently published travelogue Lost Heritage – The Sikh Legacy In Pakistan. The question, aimed primarily at…

Early in the morning, when most adolescents his age are in deep slumber, 16-year-old Roshan Singh starts pedalling to a nearby field. A tee and shorts and a pair of worn out shoes is all that he carries to warm up and begin his ‘untrained’…

Sivagami, first Kaadar to pursue post-graduation, wants to help her tribe progress Twenty-five-year-old Sivagami has many dreams. One of them is to help her community, which has for long been living in isolation and neglect. Ms. Sivagami…

For children of the Kaadar community in the Western Ghats, getting an education means leaving home at the age of six to stay at residential schools. Deep in the jungles of the Western Ghats near Valparai, over a 100 km from Coimbatore, is…