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Aug 2, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Mohammad Ali Mahar
In his famous autobiography Memoirs, Pablo Neruda, the Chilean politician, diplomat, Nobel laureate and one of the finest poets of all times, mentions another eccentric Chilean intellectual, Omar Vignole (Viñole) extensively as a picturesque, curious character. Omar, who, in his own right, was a poet, a writer and a sculptor par excellence, was also known as a sort of enfant terrible due to his idiosyncrasies. He had annoyed a lot of people with his unconventional behaviour.
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May 30, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | IHC Judges |Tariq Aqil |Mohammad Ali Mahar |Raza Rumi
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) was requested on Thursday to probe a video posted by the official social media account of former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan. Aneesur Rehman, a technical assistant at the Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) Cyber Crime Reporting Centre in Islamabad, on Thursday, wrote to the centre's deputy director and drew his attention to a video posted by Imran Khan's official 'X' (formerly known as Twitter) account on May 26.
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May 27, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Lubna Jerar Naqvi |Mohammad Ali Mahar |Talal Faisal Ismaili |Meezan Zahra Khwaja
A chilled glass of water can feel like heaven on a hot day. As temperatures rise globally, Pakistan has become a bit of a hotspot, with temperatures soaring past 53° degrees recently, and the country is experiencing consecutive heat waves during the summer months.
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May 20, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Zalmay Azad |Shakil Durrani |Mohammad Ali Mahar |Adeel Daniel
In South Waziristan, a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that borders Afghanistan, suspected militants recently targeted a girls' school in the village of Karikot, near Wana City. This marks the second such attack this month. The overnight explosion damaged a newly constructed schoolroom, but fortunately, no casualties were reported.
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May 18, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Mohammad Ali Mahar |Raza Rumi |Tahir Imran Mian |Nadeem Paracha
An impending science fair scheduled to be held later this month at the top-ranked varsity of the country, Quaid-i-Azam University, has been rescheduled after pressure from extremist religious groups. The Abdus Salam Science Festival was scheduled to be held at the Earth Sciences Auditorium of the Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) from May 27-29. It had been organised by the student-run QAU Science Society and was due to be headlined by prominent physicist Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy.
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May 7, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Riaz Missen |Mohammad Ali Mahar |Nilofer Qazi |Ibrahim Yahya
A person's identity is multifaceted, comprising many elements such as historical roots, cultural heritage, and native language. Although I have lived in Australia for the past 35 years, I am still often labelled as a Pakistani due to my origins. I was born in Hyderabad, Sindh; my lineage traces back to the Muhajir community there, as my grandparents migrated from India during the Partition of 1947.
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May 6, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Sabih Ul Hussnain |Mohammad Ali Mahar |Raza Rumi |Tahir Imran Mian
The Supreme Court on Monday suspended the allotment of reserved seats to political parties in Parliament over and above what the standard formula for distribution of these seats stipulates. It did so by suspending past orders on the matter issued by the Peshawar High Court, and the Election Commission of Pakistan has it affixed for hearing a petition filed by the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC), the opposition party in Parliament that had hitherto been denied reserved seats.
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May 2, 2024 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Mohammad Ali Mahar |Parvez Mahmood |Raza Rumi |Tahir Imran Mian
“Aayi Aayi” is an almost perfect Coke Studio Pakistan production. That is to say, a perfect all Sindhi song, for a change, by the Studio this time. It is a feast for eyes and ears so used to seeing the language and culture being ignored by the commercial mainstream and the so-called national media. I stumbled upon it the same day as the number was released, watched it out of curiosity and immediately fell in love with it. There have been few attempts by Sindhi youth in the genre of modern music.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Mohammad Ali Mahar |Raza Rumi |Adeel Daniel
Standing erect and guarding the house like a proud warrior, right in the center of my maternal great grandparents’ house, this giant of an old peepal (Ficus religiosa) tree is still fresh in my happy childhood memories. My maternal great grandfather, Khamiso Khan Mahar, had fled his ancestral village in the Chak area of Shikarpur in his prime youth along with his elder brother, my paternal great grandfather, Ahmad Khan Mahar.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
thefridaytimes.com | Mohammad Ali Mahar |Raza Rumi |Adeel Daniel |Murtaza Solangi
Namedeo Dhasal was a very aggressive Dalit rights activist and a poet in India. One of his Marathi poems, when translated from its Urdu version, reads: Ishwar, you were assigned to look after the universe, You failed to fulfil your responsibilities. All worships for you are hereby discontinued. Why do I quote the poem here? I will come to it later.
