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Online shopping June 3, 2021 Even though the trend of online shopping exists in our country, it still needs the immediate attention of the government. The authorities concerned should promote this mode of shopping in areas where shopkeepers don’t know how to sell online or are unable to use the available digital tools to set up an online store. The government should launch the digital marketplace where verified sellers and buyers can get registered. Also, short training courses should be arranged to make people more familiar with the mechanism of online selling and purchasing. This will h...

Karachi April 19, 2021 A man was gunned down and two passers-by, including a teenage boy, were wounded in a firing incident over an apparently personal enmity in a neighbourhood of Orangi Town on Sunday. An Ittehad Town police official said the incident took place in the Faqir Colony locality, following which law enforcers and rescue workers reached the crime scene and transported the casualties to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. The official said the deceased was identified as 42-year-old Khalid Masood and the injured as 17-year-old Bilal and 26-year-old Abdul Wahab. He said the suspects were ...

Man shot dead, two passersby injured National April 19, 2021 KARACHI: A man was gunned down and two passersby, including a teenage boy, were wounded in a firing incident over an apparently personal enmity in a neighbourhood of Orangi Town on Sunday. An Ittehad Town police official said the incident took place in the Faqir Colony locality, following which law enforcers and rescue workers reached the crime scene and transported the casualties to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. The official said the deceased was identified as 42-year-old Khalid Masood and the injured as 17-year-old Bilal and 26-y...

Sindh govt scholarships remain out of reach for many Decision to expand programme yet to be approved by the provincial education minister KARACHI: A recent investigation conducted into the provision of higher education in the province has opened a new Pandora’s box, highlighting unfair distribution of annual scholarships worth billions, by the Sindh government. Sindh Education Endowment Fund (SEEF) was launched in the year 2002 to facilitate students of Sindh unable to afford the cost of higher education, who secure merit-based admissions in public and private universities. Despite the gove...

Mirza Ali Khan waged an armed revolt against the British in the Tribal Areas The Tribal Areas played a significant role in the resistance against British imperialism. Several tribal leaders such as Kakajee Sanober Hussain Momand, Haji Sahib Turangzai, Mufti Rahim Popalzai, Mohammad Abdullah Hassan alias the Mad Mullah, Mullah Pawanda and Mullah Sahib Babra believed in armed resistance to free the subcontinent. Mirza Ali Khan alias the Faqir of Ipi was another such leader. The Faqir of Ipi was born between 1898 and 1901 in the Bangal Khel Wazir clan in Ipi village of North Waziristan. He was...