Everything you need to know about Sindhi: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Sindhi: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
London, May 9 (ANI): Ahead of the forthcoming elections, none of Pakistan's leading political parties are set to achieve a majority in the National Assembly, a recent survey on Pakistan's electoral politics has revealed.
New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) Leading Urdu poet, progressive writer and women's activist from Pakistan Fahmida Riaz has said that all three major political parties in her country seek friendly ties with India.
Karachi, Apr. 1 (ANI): The Pakistan People's Party (PPP), which swept the 2008 elections in its traditional stronghold of Sindh, largely due to the massive wave of sympathy generated by the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, may be in for a fight this time.
New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) Actor Ajay Devgn will be seen speaking in five languages in his forthcoming movie "Himmatwala".
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) Union Culture Minister Chandresh Kumari Katoch Monday said the government was focussed on archiving for better documentation, cataloguing and accessibility to literature in libraries to ensure "better education" in the country.
Mumbai, Jan 19 (IANS) Filmmaker Bejoy Nambiar says he had no intentions of hurting the religious sentiments of any community by using the song "Dama dam mast kalandar" for his upcoming film "David". He also says the song will continue to be a part of the movie.
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) K. Satchidanandan, Chadrakant Devtale, Jeet Thayil, Chandana Goswami, Subrata Mukhopadhayay and Jayant Pawar are among writers and poets representing 24 languages who have been honoured with this year's Sahitya Akademi awards.
New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) Writers from India and abroad will meet at the sixth Jaipur Literature Festival at Diggi Palace in Jaipur Jan 24-28 for five days to discuss literature. The festival will also highlight Indian language writing to explore transitions in literary ethos.
Mumbai, Oct 27 (IANS) Bollywood's desi girl Priyanka Chopra has found a fan in international pop star Enrique Iglesias, who is in awe of the actress.
United Nations, Sep.21 (ANI): Baloch leaders and activists held a protest rally in front of the United Nations headquarters in New York to demand international intervention to resolve the Balochistan crisis.
Delhi Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit released a calendar of events of Delhi celebrates to continue up till July 2013.
Karachi, Aug 14 (ANI): Leaders of the Awami Jamhoori Party (AJP) have accused the ruling government of failing to provide security to Hindu families residing in upper Sindh, compelling them to leave the country in large numbers.
Islamabad, Aug. 10 (ANI): The chief minister of Pakistan's Sindh province, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, has ordered an inquiry into the widely publicised report of mass migration of Hindus to India, made more complicated by conflicting reports in the media.
Karachi, May 27 (ANI): Jamaat-ud-Dawa Chief Hafiz Saeed has said it is not only the United States, but also India that is interfering in Pakistan's internal affairs and is equally involved in activities aimed at destabilisation.
Islamabad, May 11 (IANS) A TV reporter, his brother and a friend were gunned down in Pakistan's Sindh province Thursday night, a media report said Friday.
New Delhi, April 14 (IANS) Ali Zafar, one of the few Pakistani actors with a huge fan base in India, entertained the audience on the second day of Lifestyle Pakistan Expo here when he danced to Bollywood numbers, and appeared on stage with a dhol in his hands.
Islamabad, April 9 (IANS) The death of a Pakistani provincial leader took a sinister turn when a medical examination revealed that he was killed by poisoning, a media report said Monday.
Jaipur, March 31 (IANS) Another foetus was recovered from a dustbin here Saturday taking the total number of foetuses recovered in the city to four over the past five days, police said.
Karachi, Jan 3(ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif has said Pakistan would have been a prosperous country had President Asif Ali Zardari accepted to implement the former's agenda for the Charter of Democracy.
Dubai, Jan 3 (ANI): Muscat will play host to a tribute concert for ghazal singer Jagjit Singh, who passed away on October 2011.
Islamabad, Nov 20(ANI): An editorial in a Pakistan daily has expressed scepticism at the Pakistan People's Party (PPP)'s policies in the Sindh province regarding former provincial minister Zulfiqar Mirza.
Onboard/New Delhi, Oct 16 (ANI): Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari has said that his visit to Turkey would result in serious engagement between the two countries, particularly in foreign policy and bilateral economic cooperation.
Karachi, Oct 12(ANI): Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has been conferred with an honorary Doctorate degree by the University of Karachi.
Hyderabad (Pakistan), Sept 3(ANI): Honour killings and forced marriages in Sindh receive wide attention in the Pakistani media, but what is less known is that that young women from the province frequently publish announcements in Sindhi newspapers, declaring their free-will marriages.
London, August 30(ANI): Amnesty International has raised concern over the widespread practice of enforced disappearances in Pakistan, and called for an immediate end to such incidents.
Karachi, August 28(ANI): Thirty-seven Hindus, comprising five families and residents of Thul town in Jacobabad district, have permanently left Pakistan for India due to security concerns.
Karachi, August 13(ANI): At least nine people were killed and over 16 vehicles torched in different incidents of violence in Karachi as all major markets in the city remained closed following the strike call by Sindh nationalist parties against the restoration of Sindh Local Government Ordinance 2001.
New Delhi, July 1(ANI): The first meeting of the re-constituted council of National Council for Promotion of Sindhi Language (NCPSL) was held today under the Chairmanship of Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal.
Karachi, June 10(ANI): The cameraman who recorded the extra-judicial killing of an unarmed youngster by Rangers personnel in Karachi on Wednesday, has been receiving threatening calls after the footage was shown on TV channels across Pakistan.
London, Apr. 23 (ANI): The Baloch Human Rights Council (UK) has strongly condemned the brutal and inhuman killings of Sindhi nationalist leaders by what it called the death squads of Pakistani intelligence agencies.n a press release, BHRC General Secretary Samad Baloch said the barbaric killings of prominent Sindhi nationalist leaders, Sirai Qurban Khuhawar, Senior Vice Chairman of Jeay Sindh Mutahida Mahaz, and Roplo Choliani was a continuation of the state policy of suppressing the genuine demand of Sindhi people by physically eliminating the Sindhi nationalist leadership.
Islamabad, Mar 14(ANI): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is the new face of disaster for the country after the exit of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, the Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, has said.
New Jersey, Feb 2(ANI): As the Islamist nightmare envelops Pakistan, the United States should do more to support anti-Islamist forces along Pakistan's southern Arabian Sea coast, director of the Asia Program at the Center for International Policy, Selig S. Harrison, has said.
New Delhi, Jan.31 (ANI): In recent times while the world's attention was on events in FATA and North Waziristan, another brutal battle has been raging in Karachi, which is a microcosm of Pakistan, even if the soul they say, is in the Punjabi Lahore.
New Delhi, Jan.31 (ANI): In recent times while the world's attention was on events in FATA and North Waziristan, another brutal battle has been raging in Karachi, which is a microcosm of Pakistan, even if the soul they say, is in the Punjabi Lahore.
New Delhi, Jan.31 (ANI): In recent times while the world's attention was on events in FATA and North Waziristan, another brutal battle has been raging in Karachi, which is a microcosm of Pakistan, even if the soul they say, is in the Punjabi Lahore.
New Delhi, Jan.31 (ANI): In recent times while the world's attention was on events in FATA and North Waziristan, another brutal battle has been raging in Karachi, which is a microcosm of Pakistan, even if the soul they say, is in the Punjabi Lahore.
Islamabad, Jan 26(ANI): A private bill seeking 'eight national languages' for Pakistan has been introduced in the National Assembly.
Islamabad, Jan 26(ANI): A private bill seeking 'eight national languages' for Pakistan has been introduced in the National Assembly.
Islamabad, Sep 26 (ANI): Pakistan's Minister of State for Defence Production Abdul Qayyum Jatoi has tendered his resignation over his outburst against the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) and the Army, and his statement that everyone should have "equal right to do corruption."
Islamabad, Sep 26 (ANI): Pakistan's Minister of State for Defence Production Abdul Qayyum Jatoi has stated that not only politicians, rather "everyone whether he is a Baloch, Sindhi, Seraiki, Pashtun or Punjabi should be given an equal right to do corruption."
Karachi, Sept 16 (ANI): A huge quantity of heavy weapons, including explosive materials, have been recovered from a madrassa (religious seminary) in Pakistan in raids jointly conducted by the Anti-Violent Crime Cell (AVCC) and Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) of the country.
New Delhi, Aug.30 (ANI): Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram said in Parliament today that presently demands for inclusion of 38 more languages including Bhojpuri and Rajasthani in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution were pending.
London, Aug.25 (ANI): Criticising Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain's call for martial law in Pakistan, the World Sindhi Congress (WSC) has said the leader's statement has exposed the MQM's fascist nature.
London, July 28(ANI): Baloch Human Rights Council and World Sindhi Congress held a demonstration outside British Prime Minister's official residence at 10 Downing Street in London to express their anger over the brutal murder of Balochistan National Party Secretary General Habi Jalib.
London, July 26 (ANI): Baloch and Sindhi expatriates living in London protested in front of 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the British Prime Minister on Sunday to seek international intervention in the killing of innocent people in Balochistan.
Houston, July 7(ANI): Indian Supreme Court Bar Association (ISCBA) President and Kashmir Committee Chairman Ram Jethmalani has disclosed that the Kashmir issue could have been resolved peacefully if former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf had remained in power for a little longer.
Wagah, June 30 (ANI): The Sindhi community in Pakistan has urged India and Pakistan to included "visa reforms" in their agenda during the forthcoming foreign minister-level talks in Islamabad on July 15 and 16.
London, March 29 (ANI): Baloch and Sindhi activists here have demanded that Pakistan be declared a 'terrorist state'.
Islamabad, Feb.19 (ANI): At least 95 percent of truck drivers in Pakistan consider indulging in sexual activities during their rest time as their main entertainment.
New Delhi, Dec.23 (ANI): Pakistan Oppressed Nations Movement (PONM)'s vice president Abdul Majed Kanjoo has said that Pakistan is being run without a Constitution which negates democratic and human values. He says Pakistan is a jail for the oppressed Seraiki, Sindhi, Baluch and Pashtoon nation.
Islamabad, Dec. 7 (ANI): The Home Minister of Pakistan's Sindh province, Dr. Zufliqar Mirza, has said that the ruling Pakistan People's Party cannot be thrown out of the assembly, and only the dead bodies of his party's members could be driven out of the power.
Mumbai, May 28 (ANI): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) busted a sex racket in Mumbai and arrested eight persons as well as rescued 34 girls who had been forcefully pushed into the flesh trade.
Islamabad, May 19 (IANS) Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani Tuesday urged the Ulema to come forward and project the true image of Islam and to counter extremism and terrorism.
Karachi, May 12 (IANS) The politics of ethnicity being played out in this Pakistani commercial capital 'tends to be divisive and fragments society', an editorial in a leading English daily warned Tuesday.
Karachi, Jan.5 (ANI): The court here has accepted the bail petition of Sindh National Front chief Mumtaz Bhutto.
Larkana (sindh, Pakistan), Jan.3 (ANI): Sindh National Front (SNF) leader Sardar Mumtaz Bhutto was arrested on Saturday morning in Larkana and shifted to Karachi for interrogation.
Karachi, Dec.4 (ANI): About 130 Sindhi Hindu, Chinese, Japanese and Buddhist families have been waiting for a year for their Indian visas to be approved.
Raipur, Nov 5 (IANS) Leaders of about one million voters from the Sindhi community of Chhattisgarh's 15 million voters have appealed to them to boycott both the main parties, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the opposition Congress in the forthcoming elections to the 90-member state assembly, since neither has fielded any Sindhi candidate.
Raipur, Nov 1 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has not selected Sikh and Muslim candidates, nor any from the Sindhi community, for the polls to the 90-member Chhattisgarh assembly, taking many within the party by surprise, a party official said Saturday.
Vadodara, Oct 18 (IANS) An extra in TV serial 'Ramayana' who accidentally stabbed to death a man with his spear in a case of road rage, has said he had no intention of harming the victim, let alone murder him.
Washington, July 21 (ANI): Indian and Pakistani students currently on a visit to the United States have said that they have a deep desire to know each other better, and believe that the wall of suspicion that prevails in both of their countries needs to be broken down sooner than later.
