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Widespread rain expected in upper Punjab, KP, Islamabad, Kashmir, and Gilgit Baltistan during the next 24 hours. Karachiites witnessed spells of heavy rain across the metropolis on Sunday evening and Monday morning. The downpour limited citizens’ movement, reduced business activities, whereas traffic jams were also observed on various roads. Till 10am on Monday, Karachi had received 20mm to 31mm rainfall in different areas. “Another spell is, however, expected on January 29 and 30 due to low air pressure in the coming days,” said Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) official Rashid Ahmed. Office goers and daily wage earners did face difficulties as public transport was largely not available in the city, while many of the school buses and van drivers also preferred not to pick students. Late night showers did cause casualties, as two instances of electrocution were reported from Ajmer Nagri and Korangi areas of the metropolis. According to PMD, more widespread rai...

LONDON: The world’s first television channel dedicated to human rights was launched in London on Tuesday with a promise to deliver hidden stories ignored by mainstream media into people’s living rooms. The International Observatory of Human Rights (IOHR) said its web-based channel would bring human rights issues to audiences in over 20 countries across Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. “There are so many people in the world who cannot speak up, and it seems to be getting worse and worse,” IOHR director Valerie Peay told the Thomson Reuters Foundation at the official launch at London’s Frontline Club. “You have got a lot of niche channels out there, but so far not one dedicated to human rights. We want to bring this into people’s homes.” Yalda Hakim, a presenter and journalist with the BBC, told the launch event that the channel aimed “to give a voice to the voiceless” and “to make human rights sexy” in a world where attention spans were shrinking and ...

The Lovebirds will be directed by Michael Showalter, who also worked with Nanjiani in the surprise hit, The Big Sick The Lovebirds will be directed by Michael Showalter, who also worked with Nanjiani in the surprise hit, The Big Sick Kumail Nanjiani's next is a rom-com with Issa Rae and we're so here for it! Titled  The Lovebirds , the flick will be helmed by Michael Showalter, who also directed Nanjiani in the surprise hit,  The Big Sick ; production will go on floors by the end of this month. According to The Hollywood Reporter,  the script (written by Aaron Abrams, Brendan Gall and Martin Gero) centers on a couple (Nanjiani and Rae) on the brink of a breakup. The pair subsequently become embroiled in a bizarre murder mystery and as they get close to clearing their names and solving the case, the duo has to figure out how they and their relationship can survive the night. Nanjiani became one of the few South Asian lea...

Veere Di Wedding director Shashanka Ghosh will be helming the musical Remember the endearing 2014 Hollywood musical  Begin Again  starring Mark Ruffalo, Keira Knightley and Adam Levine? Guess what? It's getting a Hindi remake you never knew you wanted but now can't stop thinking about! The Indian adaptation will be directed by  Veere Di Wedding  director Shashanka Ghosh; the yet to be titled flick will be produced by Bhushan Kumar and Vikram Malhotra. Talking to Indian Express, Ghosh shared: "We want to tell a story about the world of music and fresh voices in the Indian scene. And through that, a take on urban relationships that don’t necessarily mean love and marriage and happily ever after. The worlds explored here are deeper than surface level – heart, hurt, passion, and above all – music.” T-Series’ Kumar shared his excitement about making a fresh album for the film and said, “ Begin Again  will give us an opportunity to cr...

Top civil administrator Baseer Khan said the avalanche hit Khardung La pass in the remote Ladakh region early on Friday. ─ File photo An avalanche at a Himalayan mountain pass in Indian-occupied Kashmir has killed one person and left another nine people missing. Top civil administrator Baseer Khan said the avalanche hit Khardung La pass in the remote Ladakh region early on Friday and trapped 10 people under snow. Khan said one body has been recovered while rescue teams of police and army soldiers are searching for the missing. Avalanches and landslides are common in Kashmir. Last year, 11 people were killed after their vehicle was hit by an avalanche in the northwestern Kupwara area.

Women ride bicycles while taking part in Girls on Bike rally in Islamabad. ─ Reuters/Fil e The first women's bicycle rally scheduled to take place in Peshawar on January 19 was cancelled after religious parties on Friday threatened to protest against the event, officials said. Zama Jawandoon , an organisation working for women's rights, had organised the 'peace rally' that was scheduled to begin from Peshawar's Hayatabad neighbourhood on Saturday. According to the event's organiser, at least 35 women were slated to participate in the rally and they had also invited people from the transgender community. But the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam – Fazl (JUI-F) and other religious parties on Friday announced they would stage a protest against the rally at the Bagh-e-Naran in Hayatabad. "The women's bicycle rally is spreading obscenity," JUI-F's Maulana Rafiullah Qasmi was quoted as saying at a meeting held earlier today. He anno...

As tourists enjoy snowfall, locals are facing problems due to loadshedding and insufficient heating arrangements. Tourists from across the country thronged Murree and its adjoining Galiyat areas as light snowfall continued in the hilly resort on Saturday. Wardens have also been deployed to monitor traffic and guide tourists,  DawnNewsTV  reported. Moreover, the highways department has made necessary arrangement to clear snow from the roads. At a time when hundreds of visitors enjoyed the cold and snowy weather, the locals faced many problems due to loadshedding and insufficient heating arrangements. A man lights firewood outside his wo A vendor arranges his stall near vehicles cov Vendors heat up around a fire next to thei A man walks past gas cylinders cov A man removes snow beside his shop dur Residents walk during a snowfall in Murree. A man takes pictures of a woman...

As artists seek new and innovative mediums to articulate their ideas, traditional mediums, such as drawing, tend to get pushed to the periphery of the art world. Keeping this in mind, an exhibition of artworks by Shazia Qureshi and Danish Ahmed allows for a reconsideration of drawing as an ever-evolving medium of expression. The show titled Proximity: Conversation 1 and curated by Roohi Ahmed is the first in a series of exhibitions that emerged from the idea of impromptu conversations that develop through the interaction of two diverse bodies of work. The two featured artists employ diverse approaches to drawing while both remain situated within the realm of the surreal and the abstract. Ahmed’s work adopts a language of precision, with geometric shapes rendered in varying shades of grey. While he expresses the material world through the cuboid, the work contains a latent spiritual element, perhaps felt in the levitating and suspended forms. The pragmatism of the rigid g...