Category: Features

By Zahoor Ahmed ISLAMABAD, May 29 (APP): Global warming and subsequent climate change, caused by multiple environmental hazards, has started shrinking cold weather conditions in Pakistan bit-by-bit. It was shocking to know when an expert revealed that the climate change is causing one-day addition in summer season of the country every year. “Around 15 years ago, Pakistan’s summer… Continue reading Climate change causing one-day addition in summer season annually

By Shabbir Hussain ISLAMABAD, May 01 (APP): The ‘distintive’ curriculums at different edcuational institutations, are eventually causing a sense of despondency and deprivation for ‘specific’ groups of students. The ‘exclusive’ curriculums are not only creating disappointment among students but also leading to a division of society on class basis, in line with their educational backgrounds.… Continue reading Distintive’ curriculums, causing disappointment among students

By Shabbir Hussain ISLAMABAD, May 01 (APP): The ‘distintive’ curriculums at different edcuational institutations, are eventually causing a sense of despondency and deprivation for ‘specific’ groups of students. The ‘exclusive’ curriculums are not only creating disappointment among students but also leading to a division of society on class basis, in line with their educational backgrounds.… Continue reading Distintive’ curriculums, causing disappointment among students

By Syeda Sidra Bukhari ISLAMABAD, Apr 13 (APP): There was a time when efforts were confined to controlling drug addiction among teenagers or males of the country at large. But today increasing tendency to use tobacco, sheesha, or even drugs, among mostly upper or lower, females has struck alarm bells in the concerned drug rehabilitation quarters. “Females belonging to… Continue reading Is smoking, sheesha use on rise among sections of women folk?

By Mudassar Iqbal ISLAMABAD, Apr 10 (APP): Renowned humorous poet Anwar Masood has called upon concerned official quarters to institutionalize the weekly gatherings (Mushairas) of poets of this genre. This, he told APP in an interview, would be a good mean for the promotion of culture and literature of Pakistan. He said not only homour-poets’ “Mushairas”,… Continue reading Anwar Masood for institutionalization of Mushairas

By Muhammad Atif Noor ISLAMABAD, Apr 10 (APP): Airports of a country generally portray its reflection to the world and a lot is done across the globe to equip them with state-of-the-art facilities in order to facilitate both local and foreign passengers. Where the formation of New National Aviation Policy 2015, after 15 years, goes… Continue reading Improved facilities at Benazir Bhutto airport satisfies passengers, public

By Muhammad Atif Noor ISLAMABAD, Dec 20 (APP): Abolition of signals at I-8 intersection, together with widening of the road from Zero Point to Faizabad have lessen, to some extent, the traffic woes of hundreds of motorists who otherwise were habitual to face traffic jam at this very junction on regular basis.

ISLAMABAD, Dec 9 (APP): Leading abstractionist painter Mansoor Rahi said on Wednesday that painting is a very strong instrument and language which help to propagate through art painting all over the world.