Facebook has shut down a page set up by the Pakistani Taliban to recruit enthusiasts to write for a quarterly magazine and to edit video. The Umar Media TTP page, which had more than 270 likes at the time it was shut down, was created in September and had just a handful of messages written […]
By Siraj Ulmulk CHITRAL, Nov 23: There is a very sad story about what happened last week to Chitral’s most famous mosque, the Shahi Masjid, built by my grandfather in 1922 (the work had started in 1910). Every brick was transported from India when no roads were motor-able in Chitral. They were delicately placed, by
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AJMAL KASAB was nervous just before he died, according to a guard at the prison where he was executed in the city of Pune on November 21st. After India’s president, Pranab Mukherjee, rejected his clemency plea, Mr Kasab became the first person hanged in India since 2004. The public responded, by and large, with a
By Fakhruddin Akhunzada CHITRAL, Nov 19: Education should bring positive change to the society but the education system in our country is preventing this change. Now is the time to do something about this aimless education system. Replacing it with mother tongue-based multilingual education, prevailing around the world, is the best option. Researchers argue that
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CHICAGO, Nov 7: President Barack Obama told cheering supporters early Wednesday that “the best is yet to come” for the United States as he stormed to a second term by defeating Republican Mitt Romney. After taking the stage at a raucous Chicago victory party with wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia, Obama returned to
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