Pakistan

Pervez Musharraf tried to block my return to Pakistan: Nawaz Sharif

Lahore, Nov 26 : Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has thanked Saudi Arabian King Abdullah for his support in facilitating his return to Pakistan, and said that President Pervez Musharraf tried to

Demand of ‘Peshawari Qehwa’ on the rise in Islamabad

Islamabad, Nov 26 : As the mercury dips in Islamabad with the onset of winter every year, the demand ‘Peshawari Qehwa’ rises.

International community shall play a major role in "Pakistan’s Badlands’

Washington, Nov 26 : The international community should play a major role in streamlining the MMA and improving the situation the North West Frontier Province and the tribal areas universally known

Sharif will get a level playing field for polls: Pak Interior Minister

Islamabad, Nov 26: Pakistan’s Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz has assured that former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif would get a level playing field for the January 8 general elections.

Indian filmmaker who rejuvenated Pakistani classical music denied visa

Karachi, Nov 26: An Indian filmmaker, who spent nearly a year making a documentary on the ‘dying’ art of classical music in Pakistan, was denied a visa to attend the screening of his short film in

'Bhagat Singh was a Pakistani martyr,' say experts'

Shaheed Bhagat SinghKarachi, Nov.26: An intellectual here has said that the military-backed Pakistan Government is trying to co-opt the legacy of Indian revolutionary Bhagat Singh, which is an insult to the latter’s memory.

Acclaimed writer and intellectual Zahida Hina have described the installation of a statue in Bhagat Singh’s honour by the government of Pakistan’s Punjab province as “an insult to his memory,” and believes it is “like Hitler unveiling a statue of Mandela or Gandhi."

Hina expressed her views at a memorial seminar organised by the Irtiqa Institute of Social Sciences here on Sunday to remember Bhagat Singh.

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