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ECP concludes scrutiny of nomination papers; PML-N, PTI, MQM-P bigwigs face setbacks
Returning officers turn down nomination papers of leaders, party chiefs on account of being incomplete.
Komal Rizvi and Yasir Hussain take us back to the 80s in new music video
Hello Ji is Rizvi's first single of 2018, the video for which has been shot in true retro fashion
Game of Throne's Sophie Turner says Sansa Stark’s storyline reflects the #MeToo movement
Turner says her character in GoT helped her connect with the #MeToo movement a lot more
Imran Khan knows nothing about motherhood and feminism, so we wrote him a cheat sheet
Here are 4 lessons Imran Khan badly needs to learn about this whole feminism motherhood situation.
World
North Korea's Kim briefs China's Xi on Trump summit
Xi tells Kim he “wants North Korea and the US to carry out the results of their leadership summit”.
China accuses Trump of 'blackmail' after new tariffs threat
Warns it would retaliate in kind.
Record 68.5 million displaced in 2017: UN refugee agency
85 per cent of refugees are in developing countries, many of them “desperately poor,” according to UNHCR.
Blogs
Shujaat Bukhari's killing: space for those seeking a middle ground in Kashmir is disappearing
Bukhari’s killing should remind Delhi and Islamabad that delaying a Kashmir resolution will only lead to more violence.
Please come home for Eid, Sabika
This was the first Ramazan and this will be the first Eidul Fitr when you will not be physically present with us.
Hashish, Sufism and modernity
Colonialism and modernity turned hashish from a portal to transcendence into one of degradation.
DISEASE AND DEVELOPMENT
Although Gujrat is seeing many uplift projects of late, unplanned urbanisation has given birth to an extraordinary rise
TRAVEL: RELIVING A HIPPIE TRIP
A foreigner takes a low-budget tour of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the footsteps of hippies who visited the region in the
ARTSPEAK: BEYOND THE GENDER BINARY
From 1954 to 1999, the advertisement of the Marlborough man — a rugged, lean cowboy smoking a cigarette — became...
THE ICON INTERVIEW: THE DOYENNE OF FASHION
Maheen Khan doesn’t mince her words. She doesn’t need to. She understands fashion when so many others don’t.
SOUNDSCAPE: FROM KOREA, WITH LOVE
South Korean boy band BTS makes history by becoming the first K-pop group to top the US Billboard 200 chart
THE GRAPEVINE
This is significant. One of India’s biggest, if not the biggest, film production houses, Yash Raj Films (YRF), has
