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BONN 07 Dec (Online): Periods, sex, body shaming, harassment, misogyny, dating: These are not topics of discussion that are openly discussed in Pakistani households or amongst friends. But packaged as comedy, the taboo themes elicit raucous laughter and cheers in packed auditoriums. Families, couples and […]

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 05 (APP):More than one in five people employed – almost 23 per cent – have experienced violence and harassment in the workplace, whether physical, psychological or sexual, according to the first-ever joint study carried out by the International Labour Organization (ILO), a […]

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Assalam-o-alaikum and Good Evening! First of all, I would like to extend my warmest welcome to you at my residence tonight. This reception is exclusively arranged for the journalist friends. I have waited for this occasion to welcome you since my arrival in Islamabad last […]

Le VerdonsurMer, France, Dec 2 (AFP/APP): France marks next week the 80th anniversary of a daring World War II raid by British Royal Marines, who slipped past German patrols up the Gironde estuary to mine crucial supply ships. Dubbed “The Cockleshell Heroes” in a 1950s […]

Working against the time, Asad Khan, hardly a 12-year-old mechanic, was busy like a honeybee repairing water geysers, batteries, heaters and other electric appliances scattered all around him in his small workshop to meet the placed orders in wake of declining mercury levels in Peshawar. […]

Warsaw, Nov 27 (AFP/APP):As a refugee herself, Anna Lysenko finds it cathartic to be playing the character of a Ukrainian woman forced to flee her homeland in a new production in Warsaw. “You open your soul. Those emotions, the pain that is in you, you […]

ISLAMABAD, 26 Nov. (Online): Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is a condition that causes the heart to beat rapidly and irregularly. This can lead to heart failure, which develops when the heart is not pumping blood efficiently around the body properly. AFib is the most commonTrusted Source […]

Paris, Nov 26 (AFP/APP):On a biting cold morning on November 28, 1972, a Frenchman was guillotined for a murder he did not commit, in a case that so traumatised his lawyer he would spend the rest of his life campaigning to end the death penalty. […]

ISLAMABAD, Nov 22 (Online): A growing body of evidence suggests that living with purpose may help you live longer. Recently, researchers wondered whether this effect would apply equally across genders, ethnicities, and races. This was the focus of a new study led by Dr. Koichiro […]