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BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTISLAMABAD: On Tuesday, the Federal Cabinet took a number of important decisions on issues ranging from the recent shortage of petroleum products to the collapsed Karachi drainage system.The Prime Minister, who presided over the cabinet meeting at the PM House, expressed his annoyance at the non-release of fees to the media houses, which had led to a delay in the payment of salaries to the staff of some TV channels and newspapers.“In order to ascertain the cause of the recent shortage of petroleum products in the country, the cabinet has formed an inquiry commission,” Information Minister Shibli…

BY STAFF REPORTER A seminary student shot dead an elderly man accused of blasphemy in a court room in Peshawar city of Pakistan. Murderer who is in police custody now, sprayed six bullets straight into deceased’s body in front of a Session Court’s judge and a dozen of witnessed and lawyers during court proceeding. Tahir Ahmad Naseem , the deceased, had claimed to be ‘Prophet’ and was arrested in 2018. Khalid, the murderer, surrendered before the police and confessed his crime. “The culprit accepts responsibility for killing him, and says that he killed him for having committed blasphemy,” said police…

Online DeskIslamabad: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a first virtual joint conference with his counterparts from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nepal, on Monday, during which he outlined a four-point strategy to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, improve economic recovery and restore BRI (Belt and Road Initiative) infrastructure projects.Afghanistan’s acting Foreign Minister Mohammad Haneef Atmar and Nepalese Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali attended the virtual meeting, according to a Chinese Foreign Ministry press release.Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi did not participate in the meeting. Pakistan was represented by Economic Affairs Minister Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar.Addressing the meeting, which is the first involving…

By Our Special CorrespondentISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Tuesday urged upon the welfare organizations, civil society and philanthropists to step forward in caring for financially weaker segments of society during the difficult times of pandemic. During his visit to a shelter home set up by the government at Tarlai in the outskirts of capital, the President said helping poor and deserving people on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha was a religious and national obligation. The President reviewed the arrangements made for the homeless and needy at the shelter home and interacted with the people. He instructed Managing Director Bait ul…

By Our Online DeskI was least prepared for this candid disclaimer in the author’s preface to his astonishing novel, Prince Chilli, by Ibn-e-Safi the great pioneer of detective novels in Urdu, who passed on 40 years ago today, in Karachi. Astonishing! because while this novel can be read as a relatively enjoyable romp of romance and intrigue, it deserves to be much better known as a social satire chronicling the social and cultural background of Pakistan in the 1950s and 1970s.Ibn-e-Safi carved a universal reputation for himself and the genre of detective fiction in Urdu across the subcontinental divide in…

BY USMAN NADEEMMr. Prime Minister you won the election on 25th July 2018, your swearing-in ceremony was on 15th August 2018 shortly after the oath taking of the 15th national assembly of Pakistan on the 13th of August 2018. Every Pakistani was glued to their television sets on the day you came to give your first speech, the first public address of a man who rose to power through the relentless support of all who had lost hope, all who were pestered and tortured by the preceding rulers. God knows even the most evil and vile had a glimmer of…

By Abdullah MomandIslamabad: A young writer from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Peshawar, Asia Jamil (Eiman) recently published her first English novel a “Prince Who Destroyed My Life” which is focused on early childhood marriages, gender discrimination and the saga of trans-sexual children in society.Asia hails from Peshawar and has completed her M.phil in English Language Teaching from Qurtaba University; she has vast experience of teaching as well as working with international organizations as an expert on gender discrimination issues.In an interview with Asia, she shared that her focus is mostly on early childhood marriages because of which girls not only suffer…

[First published by Gatestone Institute]By Khaled Abu ToamehFrom time to time, Lebanese officials and politicians like to take a shot at the Palestinians by reminding them that they are unwelcome in Lebanon, an Arab country that has long been subjecting them to apartheid and discriminatory laws, policies and measures.The latest Lebanese official to spew “racist” remarks against the 475,075 Palestinians living in 12 refugee camps in Lebanon is Gebran Bassil, leader of the Free Patriotic Movement, a political party whose support base is overwhelmingly from Lebanon’s Christian community.Bassil, a former minister of foreign affairs and emigrants, is married to Chantel…

Qaswar Abbas ISLAMABAD, July 24 (China Economic Net) – Life of Fawad Shah, a Pakistani civil engineer, was suddenly changed last month after he received a call for a job interview from China Power International Development Limited also known as just China Power, a Chinese electric power company that is working in Pakistan on several projects including Diamer Bhasha Dam. “Although I was desperately in need of job, but I was not excited even after receiving the call because I didn’t have any reference or backing to get a job there. But I walked into interview considering that Chinese company…

By Hamoud AlmahmoudIn the fall of 1918, days after the second wave of the Spanish Flu – the most severe pandemic in recent human history – began to wane, a new Charlie Chaplin film called “Shoulder Arms” appeared in the theaters. The main theater in New York City invited audiences to attend the film, while the world outside of the city was still isolating themselves in their home quarantines. People did indeed come in droves to attend the film, welcomed by the theater manager Harold Edel, who – in his words – felt that the greatest part of this film…