Iftikhar Alam
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Can Social Media Help Heal the Wounds of Partition?
72 years after partition, migrants are using social media to reconnect with their ancestral homes. → Read More
Sino-pak bus leaves Lahore for Kashgar
LAHORE - The much-awaited bus service between Pakistan and China started its first operation on a Monday night. READ MORE: SC to hear NAB appeal against Sharifs' → Read More
No breakthrough in talks with protesters
LAHORE/ISLAMBAD - Dialogue between government and protesters in Lahore failed yesterday, with TLP leadership announcing a countrywide → Read More
Data Urs: CJP inaugurates celebrations as thousands attend the event
“I come here on every Urs of Data Sahib for last 20 years and spend three days in his feet. Data Hazoor preached love for mankind. Devotion to him brings → Read More
Grand alliance: Fazl meets Nawaz today
LAHORE - MMA President Maulana Fazlur Rehman is due to meet PML-N Quaid Mian Nawaz Sharif on Sunday (today) in his efforts to forge an alliance of all important → Read More
Victims of Lahore incest scandal have no citizenship
LAHORE - The saga of two minor Lahore girls abused by their own father for years, as reported by The Nation a few days ago, has taken yet another bizarre turn. → Read More
Mother of tortured children fears return of old agony
LAHORE - Two minor girls, sexually abused by their father for years, are finally free from torture after his arrest, although ill-fated mother still fears returning of → Read More
TLP kicks off protest march towards Islamabad
LAHORE - Thousands of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) workers yesterday started its protest march from Lahore to Islamabad against Holland’s exhibition → Read More
JI gives Imran chance to fulfil promises
LAHORE - Jamaat-i-Islami has decided not to be part of any agitation against the PTI government and play an effective and constructive role of opposition → Read More
TLP emerges third largest party in Lahore
LAHORE - Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan has emerged third largest party in terms of vote bank after PML-N and PTI on 14 National Assembly seats of the provincial → Read More
Decades of famous faces at Adiala
ISLAMABAD/Lahore - Nothing has changed as Adiala Jail reeks with manky stinks going back decades. Voices coming out of the jail about the maltreatment → Read More
Religious parties field record 460 candidates on NA seats
LAHORE - Religious parties have fielded the highest number of candidates on the National Assembly seats for the first time in the country’s history, focusing → Read More
Another PML-N leader revolts against Sharifs
LAHORE - Making announcement to part ways with the PML-N, former provincial minister and Sharifs’ close aide Chaudhry Abdul Ghafoor said yesterday that → Read More
MMA unveils future plan at Minar-i-Pakistan show
LAHORE - Muttahida Majlise Amal unveiled its future political programme comprising introduction of interest-free economy and abolition of co-education system during → Read More
‘Mush was behind PML-Q defeat in 2008 elections’
LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League – Quaid (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain’s long-awaited book was launched at a local hotel yesterday with → Read More
PAT suspends protest movement
LAHORE - The Pakistan Awami Tehreek has failed to mount pressure on the Punjab government for justice to the families of more than a dozen people killed in Model → Read More
PAT yet to frame anti-govt strategy: Qadri
LAHORE - Pakistan Awami Tehreek Chairman Dr Tahirul Qadri has strongly refuted the general perception that opposition parties have joined hands against the PML-N → Read More
Has Pir Sialvi changed his agenda?
LAHORE – Pir Hameedudin Sialvi who is spearheading the campaign against the government for its move to tone down the law about the finality of the → Read More
Opposition not joining hands to stall Senate polls: Qadri
LAHORE – Pakistan Awami Tehreek Chairman Dr Tahirul Qadri has strongly refuted the general perception that opposition parties have joined hand against the → Read More
Power show in Lahore today
Lahore - Opposition parties were determined to hold an anti-government protest today in Lahore , though the administration had refused to allow it citing → Read More