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Dawn to dusk Anjana Rajan http://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/dawn-to-dusk/article5321507.ece The indefatigable Khushwant Singh has come out with a book of translated prayers from the Granth Sahib For a man who consistently declares himself an agnostic, Khushwant Singh dwells...

Religious Freedom (Dawn Editorial) DAWN.COM | Editorial | Religious freedom This year’s report by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, released on Thursday, puts Pakistan on the list of 13 “countries of particular concern” that are serious violators of religious...

LAHORE/QUETTA, Dec 8: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement has fielded 112 candidates from Punjab and 21 from Balochistan on general and reserved seats of the National Assembly and provincial assemblies. More...

LAHORE, Nov 21: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan and 303 other political activists and leaders were released by the Punjab government on Wednesday night. More...

MUZAFFARABAD, Nov 6: Seven relatives of a 100-year-old Kashmiri Sikh who died in September and was cremated in occupied Kashmir have arrived here with his ashes, which they will throw into Jhelum River on Wednesday in fulfillment of his last wish. More...

ISLAMABAD, Sept 13: A planned effort is being made to revise the composition of the Pakistan Army by reducing the dominance of Punjab to a considerable level over a period of four years. More...

LAHORE, Aug 23: As soon as Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz workers learnt about the Supreme Court’s positive ruling on petitions filed by the Sharif brothers, they took to the streets in Lahore and other cities in Punjab on Thursday. More...

LAHORE/ PESHAWAR, June 28: A spell of intermittent moderate to heavy rains, likely to last six days, began in Punjab, NWFP and Northern Areas on Thursday. The meteorological department said it expected the spell to intensify from July 1 to July 3, also covering the Sindh and Balochistan...

RAWALPINDI, June 22: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide a multi-tranche $900 million loan to Punjab for improving water resources and increasing agricultural productivity in the province. More...

LAHORE, June 17: Widespread pre-monsoon rain in Punjab and the NWFP on Sunday brought a welcome relief from the week-long spell of sizzling heat. However, the rain caught the people unawares and a number of tragic incidents were reported. More...

LAHORE, June 14: The Punjab government on Thursday placed before the assembly the budget for fiscal year 2007-08 amounting to Rs356.17 billion with no new taxes and a surplus of Rs112.68 billion. More...

RAWALPINDI, June 12: Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi Bench Judge Justice Syed Sajjad Hussain Shah here on Monday directed the Punjab home department to produce the detention orders of a senior PPP activist and also asked the city police officer (CPO) to explain the action through assistant...

LAHORE, June 4: In a surprise move, police launched a crackdown on opposition leaders and activists in several districts of Punjab in the early hours of Tuesday. More...

ISLAMABAD, May 29: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi and Punjab Governor Lt Gen (retd) Khalid Maqbool held separate meetings with President Pervez Musharraf on Monday and Tuesday and discussed with him the political situation in the country. More...

LAHORE, May 29: Justice Syed Shabbar Raza Rizvi of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday sought a report from the Punjab government on a petition of Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan challenging the order that restrained him for three days from leaving the city. More...

LAHORE, May 27: After the government of Sindh barred Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf chief Imran Khan from entering the province for one month, its counterpart in Punjab barred the cricketer-turned politician on Sunday from leaving Lahore for three days and stopped him from boarding a Karachi-bound...

NEW DELHI, July 10: India on Sunday condemned incidents of apparent reprisals against Sikh and Muslim shrines in Britain and urged Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government to help maintain religious harmony in the aftermath of last week’s bomb attacks in London...

NEW DELHI, July 6: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday that India and Pakistan remained committed to making their current peace process irreversible, but cautioned that militant attacks such as the one carried out in Ayodhya on Tuesday could disrupt New Delhi’s relations...

The four centuries following the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century have been called China's 'Dark Age'. It was characterised by violence, dynastic upheaval, and foreign conquest...

ISLAMABAD, May 11: Pakistan and India agreed in principle on Wednesday to operate a new bus service between Amritsar and Lahore and another between the Sikh holy place of Nankana Sahib. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/sikh/SIG=11bpm9f0g/*http%3A//www.dawn.com/2005/05/12/top3.htm