KARACHI: After seven years, the sounds of drums and ululation echoed on the streets of Manghopir as the Sheedi community revived their annual mela on Monday. Men, women and children took to the ...

KARACHI: Festivities at the three-day Sheedi Mela concluded on Sunday in Manghopir. Sheedi elders will place a chadar at the shrine of Hazrat Khawaja Hassan, also known as Manghopir, today (Monday) to ...

KARACHI: After emerging as the only party to have fielded more women politicians on assembly seats than any other party in the country during general elections 2018, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has ...

The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), earlier this month, nominated Tanzeela Qambrani to a women’s reserved seat in the Sindh Assembly following the July 25 general elections. The decision is welcome and ...

KARACHI: Among many firsts that have recently been introduced in the country’s parliamentary politics — many of them are credited to the Pakistan Peoples Party — Tanzeela Qambrani is another soothing ...

The historic oath-taking ceremony held at the Sindh Assembly on Monday saw Tanzeela Qambrani ascending the seat as Pakistan’s first Sindhi Sheedi woman to become part of provincial legislature.

“So, you are a Pakistani?”, a question not uncommon for Abdul Hafiz Kasqali, a fire juggler or ‘jungli’ and folk dancer (specifically the lewa). Kasqali, 38, has been dancing at both public and ...

KARACHI: Their faces covered with chadors and feet moving rhythmically to the beat of drums, the women and men of Manghopir celebrated the Sheedi Mela after a gap of seven years on Monday. In a ...

KARACHI, June 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Pakistan's first lawmaker from the Sheedi minority is on a mission to fight centuries-old discrimination against her community of African descent, ...

Among many firsts that have recently been introduced in the country’s parliamentary politics, many of them are credited to the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). Tanzeela Qambrani is another addition to ...

KARACHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Pakistan's first lawmaker from the Sheedi minority is on a mission to fight centuries-old discrimination against her community of African descent, saying it has ...