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At Lahore’s Ichra Bazaar, a girl wearing a printed dress with Arabic calligraphy was surrounded by a mob that alleged she had committed blasphemy by wearing Quranic verses on her dress. Some shopkeepers and other onlookers defended her saying the word printed was “halwa”. A video doing the rounds ...

A list of some key events over the last few years leading up to Pakistan’s parliamentary election on Thursday:July 25, 2018 — Pakistanis vote for a new government in an election marred by violence and allegations of fraud. July 26, 2018 — Former cricket star Imran Khan wins the ...

In July, as Anju Rafael left her home and her two children in Rajasthan’s Bhiwadi, and crossed the border into Pakistan, she was responding to a tug greater than anything she had felt before. “For the first time in my life, I was in love,” says Anju, 34.Back home ...

A popular European folktale goes like this: On the eve of Christmas in 1870, while the Franco-Prussian war was raging, a French soldier jumped from the trenches and began singing “Cantique de Noel – O Holy Night”, a carol describing the birth of Jesus. Time stood still, and people ...

Chip War (Scribner) by Chris Miller elaborates how complicated and sophisticated chip fabrication has become. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Knopf) by Gabrielle Zevin was recommended by my daughter, and is a very readable novel about game development and love. Forks in the Road (Penguin) is a personal favourite ...

Sri Lanka head coach Chris Silverwood did not mince words and expressed his disappointment on his team’s appalling performance in the Asia Cup final on Sunday. This was after Sri Lanka was bowled out for just 50 after Mohammed Siraj blew away the Lankan batting unit with figures of ...

While it’s unclear how many of those who left in the immediate aftermath of the violence are back, The Indian Express found at least 14 of 50 homes locked in a well-concealed slum settlement in Sector 70A, where migrant labourers live opposite their employers in high-rises.“All of them locked ...

In district after district in the Valley, as The Indian Express found travelling to Srinagar, Anantnag, Kupwara and Baramulla, such stories are playing out in homes, hospital wards and deaddiction centres. Jammu and Kashmir’s drug pandemic which, as the first of this investigative series reported Friday, has seen a ...

Two days ago, I went to visit the new Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya (Prime Ministers’ Museum) in Delhi, which I had not seen and which gives a glimpse into a rapidly changing India. Coincidentally, it was the same day that Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar dropped his bombshell — that Parliament should be ...

I would like to thank the editors of The Indian Express for publishing the message from Anastasia Piliavsky (‘Dear Indian friends’, October 6). You have been instrumental in letting Indian readers understand with whom and what Russia has been dealing. No Russian propagandist could write something better to disclose ...