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Tucked inside a popular bazaar, there once was a place where women shimmied their hips in full Technicolor splendor. Today, it is a refuge for women who can barely lift their legs. It is an odd transformation, wrought by the devastating earthquake on Oct. 8.
The Melody Cinema had sat fallow for two years, ever since […]
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THE frills and flounces of couture are to embrace the button-down world of Silicon Valley with the sale of Emanuel Ungaro, the Paris fashion house, to the internet tycoon, Asim Abdullah. The luxury label, best known for its brightly hued floral designs, is being sold by Salvatore Ferragamo, the Italian footwear firm, for an undisclosed […]
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A three-member medical team has been despatched to Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi to oversee the health situation after reports of some 40 suspected cases of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) over the last two months. At least two people suspected of having contracted CCHF, including one female doctor, died last week, according to health […]
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Pakistan could see the rapid spread of HIV/AIDS among the general population due to a combination of high-risk behaviour and limited knowledge, warns the latest report from the UN joint programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). The UNAIDS policy position report entitled, ‘Intensifying HIV Prevention’, and released on Monday, has called for urgent prevention programmes to limit […]
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Ready-mix spices from Pakistan seem to be up for grabs at the India International Trade Fair (IITF), considering the rush of visitors jostling for a wide variety of fare on sale. Spices of major Pakistani brands like National, Shan, Laziza, Mehran and Mersi are vying for space on the Indian kitchen shelf this time.
“The taste […]
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Body art is fast becoming a fashion statement among the young in this most liberal city in Pakistan, and they are flaunting tattoos and body piercings despite rebuke and ridicule. Naveed Ahmed, a tattoo artist, said boys and girls in the age group of 14 to 28 years and even older clients came for body […]
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Aamir Nazir knows it has never been easy to dispense justice in the hardscrabble Himalayan mountains of Kashmir. He regularly worked with an overcrowded docket and in dilapidated courtrooms. But at least Nazir had a courtroom to call his own. After last month’s magnitude 7.6 earthquake that killed more than 87,000 people, he spent weeks […]
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While I was in India last month I came across an American friend who had also travelled to Delhi to pursue some interest in development economics. This was his first visit to the country and he was initially very impressed with what he saw. He had also read Thomas Friedman’s book from which I quoted […]
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Where marriage has since ancient days been deemed a sacred duty, Yuvika Bader, a quick-tongued 20-year-old college student, rejects the very concept of matrimony. “If someone’s going to live with someone, then I’d just do it,” she said recently. “I don’t need to get the marriage stamp on it.”
Where not long ago few besides beggars […]
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Fifteen-year-old Rawa risks verbal abuse–or worse–every time she leaves her house wearing jeans. Jenah was thrown out of her family home at 11, became a drug dealer at 13, and was raped by a relative a year later.
If young men in France’s housing projects–scenes of recent arson and unrest–have it rough, girls often have it […]
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English female cricket fans visiting Pakistan to watch the ongoing Test and ODI series between the two countries are surprised to see separate enclosures for men and women at the cricket stadiums in Pakistan. Claire, a cricket fan from London who is accompanying the Barmy Army, said that she was surprised to see separate seats […]
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Angelina Jolie reportedly wants to adopt a child orphaned by the Pakistan earthquake. Friends of the raven-haired star - who is spending Thanksgiving visiting survivors of the tragedy with lover Brad Pitt - claim she’s considering adopting a child there. A source reveals, “She may well consider bringing a child home.”
The pillow-lipped beauty - who […]
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