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Pakistan passes landmark transgender rights law Activists laud move by Pakistan's parliament as new law accords transgender citizens right to self-identify. Pakistan's parliament has passed a law guaranteeing basic rights for transgender citizens and outlawing discrimination by both employers...

Electric Honeycombs Form When Nature Gets Out of Balance This visualization reveals fundamental principles about how electricity moves through fluids that engineers can use to develop technology for printing, heating or biomedicine. But it also reminds us that humans aren’t the only ones...

Naseem Akhtar wins IBSF World Under-18 Snooker Championsip Sahiwal's Naseem Akhtar has won the International Billiards and Snooker Federation (IBSF) Under-18 Snooker World Championship after beating China's Peifan Lei in Beijing on Tuesday. Akhtar won five frames against Lei's three in the...

Pakistani Student Makes History By Becoming First Non-European President Of King’s College London In the 144 years long history of the famous King’s College London (KCL), Momin Saqib is the only non-European national to become president of the student union for one year. Momin Saqib, who...

Pakistan's Robin Hood

The man who invented the ‘bionic eye’ A Pakistani-American has won the US highest award for technology achievement. Mark Humayun is to receive the prestigious National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Obama. It is a “testament to American ingenuity,” announced Obama. Mark...

Swabi girl declared worldwide topper in online test Sidratul Muntaha alias Sidra Khan, a resident of Topi tehsil of Swabi district, has got first position by scoring 100 per cent marks in the Management Accounting MA-1 paper in an online examination of the Association of Certified Chartered...

Sister pilots claim new record for PIA by flying Boeing 777 concurrently Maryam Masood and Erum Masood made history by flying the coveted large Boeing-777 aircraft as pilots at the same time to several local and international destinations. This was said by PIA spokesman Daniyal Gillani who...

If only arms could have solved all the world problems

I only hope MQM moves on from his doctrine of terror. It has lots of brain and potential if channelized appropriately

Is it enough?

Five Foreigners Who Took a Chance on Pakistan Pakistan may regularly feature in international news for all the wrong reasons, but these five foreign tourists were far from being deterred from visiting the country. Although they were aware of the news about terrorism and bomb blasts coming out...

Why is good news not good enough for Pakistanis? This situation reminds me of bad parents who constantly berate their children, comparing them to others who have done much more with far less. The parent is frustrated and ends up blurring the lines between constructive criticism and just plain...

Pakistan-born, Komal Ahmad, develops phone app to feed almost 600,000 homeless people WEB DESK: It was 2011. Komal Ahmad had just come back from Navy summer training and was attending the University of California at Berkeley to start work on her undergraduate degree. While she was walking...

Lone Georgian female photographer takes on Lahore A lone female photographer from Georgia travelled to Pakistan despite being warned by family and friends to take some really stunning photos. Teo Jioshvili, 29, an aspiring travel photographer, went to Lahore, Pakistan last year and found it to...

PAF officer awarded Best Overseas Candidate at UK’s Royal Air Force Academy LINCOLNSHIRE: Flying Officer of Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Junaid Saleem has been awarded with the ‘Best Overseas Cadet Award’ in Royal Air Force College(RAFC) Cranwell. This is first time ever in the history of...

Pakistani girl competes in skiing compeititon despite losing leg in 2005 earthquake Insha Afsar was one of the 138,000 people injured in the devastating earthquake which hit northern parts of Pakistan in 2005, losing her left leg up to her hip. But the 14-year-old has come a long way since...

Pakistani bodybuilder wins title at Arnold Classic Australia Pakistani bodybuilder Atif Anwar on Sunday won a title at the Arnold Classic body building competition held in Australia. Anwar won the ‘over 100 kg class’ title at the event named after Hollywood legend and seven times Mr...

A Single Light Bulb Adorns an Entire Room with Lacy Shadows A single light bulb may not sound large enough or bright enough to decorate the entire interior of a large room, but artistAnila Quayyum Aghaaccomplished just that. Her installation, Intersections, was the winner ofArtprize 2014at...