A stopover for a cause: fight against polio
LAHORE, May 16: Seeing a team administering anti-polio drops to children along a Lahore road, a nomadic family stopped by and asked the officials to vaccinate their children as well. The family was on a donkey cart. The team took hardly four minutes to vaccinate the family and let it resume their journey

Election 2013 — A bad harvest for political dynasties
Several surnames such as Khar, Jatoi, Gilani, Cheema, Kaira, Bharwana, Raja and Wattoo failed to impress voters who switched over to their rivals, mostly backed by PML-N.

The Dasti storm
Courtroom, newsroom, drawing room — everyone loves to hate him. And that’s what the angry Jamshed Dasti is looking for.

Zuljinnah sets the pace of main procession
LAHORE , Nov 24: The main lane from the main Mochi Gate on Circular Road to the historic Imambargah Nisar Haveli is narrow and curved but during Muharram, it gets crowded as hundreds of mourners attired in

Lahore-born entrepreneur among US richest people
Born into a middle class family of Lahore Shahid Khan stands among Forbes’ 2012 list of America’s billionaires.

A doctor who prescribes a dose of Quranic verses
Dr M javed plays the recitation of a ‘surah’, which he calls doses that strengthen the willpower of patients.

Lahore Marathon attracts a motley crew
LAHORE, March 4: The 17-kilometre Lahore Marathon 2012, though a men-only affair, was a ‘mixed race’ in several ways on Sunday.

For those with a vision, a man to follow
LAHORE, Dec 2: `Modified Patterns of Teachers Training Programme`. It is one of the seven booklets written by Rasheed Ahmed Phularwan, 46, for the teacher education programmes run by a public-private educational

Commemorating Karbala`s spirit of sacrifice
LAHORE, Nov 30: Dozens of posters of majalis-i-aza or mourning assemblies cluttering the front wall of Aiwan-i-Zainab vie for a prominent display to grab the…