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A system derailed ON July 13, three passenger trains collided at the Sarhad Railway Station near Ghotki. It is said to be the worst train...		Pathway to the past Certain stories related to our personal past take us along a nostalgic journey into the days gone by. The weekly column, Karachi Notebook in Dawn...
Dangers of self-medication It is said that our world is a place where the fittest survives. Fitness is more often than not associated with being healthy. The desire to remain healthy has made people...		A turbulent ride IT was strange the way the bus conductor went on repeating the names of bus routes, all in one breath. Hanging off an iron rod, he seemed totally oblivious to his...
Ashes for glory A rivalry that is as old as Test cricket itself, the Ashes is one of the most important events of the annual cricket itinerary...		Risky business A famous programme on a foreign TV channel features strange things that sometimes border on life-risking...
A glorious past THE beginning of the 16th century witnessed the rise of the Kalhoras in northern Sindh. Mian Adam Shah Kalhoro...		Kalash calling ONE of the major attractions of the Chitral valley is its fabled Kalash tribe. Traditionally called ‘the wearers of black robes’,...
Setting an example Once on the verge of extinction, there has been an increase in the population of flared-horn markhor in the recent years. This has been a result of conservation...		Loss of peripheral vision laucoma, also known as Kala Pani or Kala Motia in the subcontinent, is one very unfortunate and a preventable eye disease. The disease causes irreversible blindness...
Hot Seat Singer, VJ, actor and television host, Komal Rizvi is one lively person who has the time to pursue her career as well as her hobbies. She asserts she loves to read...		Train of thought ONCE in a while, when I feel the world is too occupied in itself, I sneak out and liberate myself. Momentarily. I go early morning to see the railway...
The massacre at Srebrenica Ten years after the Srebrenica massacre, the souls of the innocent people who died in it have finally been laid to rest, but their murderers have not been brought to justice....		A life well lived WHILE rummaging in the heap of books and journals I had brought with me from India, I picked out an issue of Aligarh Magazine. It now appeared to me precious...
Karachi loses out, again IT has become a routine thing for the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to mess up an international home series. As it happened during the discussions...		Groping in the dark DURING the last week Pakistan Hockey Federation featured repeatedly in newspaper columns. But it got the spotlight for more wrong reasons than the right ones...
Contracts are good, but ... THE central contracts for a selected bunch of players have recently been in the news. There was much speculation as to who would find favour with Pakistan Cricket Board...		Harry Potter comes to Harvard WE are on the boat approaching Martha’s Vineyard in New England. It’s a pretty sight. Not for Beth, though. Her eyes are centred on the pages of a book...
Newsmaker The sixth installment in the seven-volume collection by J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, went on sale worldwide at 12:01am...		MOSAIC: Post-tsunami Maldives A report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) found that the Indian Ocean tsunami caused a number of significant impacts on the Maldives environment....