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So, yeah I've been watching the T20 Cricket World Cup in spite of myself and my perennial dismay at the depths the Pakistan team can si...

Hello and welcome to the latest round-up of the Bizarre Newspaper Headline Contest . This edition includes some recent achievements but also...

As newspaper blunders go, this one is a real doozy! But when I read Javed Chaudhry 's translated Urdu column in the Express Tribune ...

Those of you wondering whatever happened to the hourly BBC news bulletins on local FM channels and the local relay of the evening 8 o' ...

The unique position of the media - as a watchdog of public interest, it has the power to question public representatives and to demolish the...

How's this for the most unconsciously hilarious and ironic assertion in a news report? In a report today in The News  about Shoaib Ma...

Here's the sajjada nasheen  (custodian) of the Shah Rukn-e-Alam sufi shrine in Multan - whose yearly urs or commemmoration of the death...

What do YOU think was the No. 1 story in Pakistan yesterday? The power crisis - which is already leading to 12-16 hour blackouts in most of...

I know one should not gloat over the misfortunes of others but in two developing stories the irony is so incredibly intense that one cannot...

It seems blogger is constantly attaching the wrong time to our posts, specifically, an hour above the current time. So what we post at 8pm e...

Here is the APP Photo published on page 4 of today's Dawn (since I couldn't grab the image off Dawn 's epaper site , I looked ...

Just finished watching the media presentation by the UN Commission investigating Benazir Bhutto 's assassination. While we will have t...

I had begun writing a post about the strange suppression in the Pakistani media - print and television - of the news about the killing of, a...

I like Shazia Mirza . I do. First she travels all the way to Pakistan to entertain us with live shows at LUMS and T2F . Then she travels...