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Indian Navy Day: History, Significance, Celebration and Theme

The day commemorates the success of Operation Trident during the Indo-Pakistani War in 1971, when the Indian Navy attacked and destroyed the Pakistani port of Karachi. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Trailblazing dancer and choreographer Eileen Kramer dies aged 110

Sydney icon danced in the jazz bars of Paris, painted murals in Karachi and mixed with Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Groucho Marx

The Guardian - AU

Chinese Nationals Wounded In Karachi Textile Mill Shooting

Recent shooting incident involving Chinese workers in Pakistan prompts investigation and reassurance measures.

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The Queen of My Dreams review – mother and daughter bond over Bollywood in colourful comedy romance

Gloriously vivid flashbacks to 1960s Karachi work a treat in Fawzia Mirza’s buoyant, 90s Toronto coming-of-age drama

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The Independent UK

Traces of this Pakistani megacity's past are vanishing, but one flamboyant pink palace endures

Stained glass windows, a sweeping staircase and embellished interiors make Mohatta Palace a gem in Karachi, a Pakistani megacity of 20 million people

The Guardian - UK

The Queen of My Dreams review – queer Muslim nostalgia-fest rattles along with fun and energy

Amrit Kaur is a revelation in this warm film about a Pakistani Canadian who learns of her mother’s swinging 60s heyday in Karachi

The Guardian - UK

Fawzia Mirza and Amrit Kaur on The Queen of My Dreams: ‘People want to hear more queer Muslim stories’

Mirza’s feature debut may have started with a wish to better understand her conservative Pakistani mother, but the joy it finds as it hops from 90s Canada to 60s Karachi speaks to big questions about south Asian identities

International Business Times

Women Ride Pakistan's Economic Crisis Into The Workplace

Amina Sohail veers through heavy traffic to pick up her next passenger -- the sight of a woman riding a motorcycle drawing stares in Pakistan's megacity of Karachi.

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Al Jazeera

Pakistan’s storm Asna: Legend of the Karachi saint who can ‘stop cyclones’

A cyclone could hit Pakistan’s most populous city. Karachi has Sufi saint Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s legacy to fall back on.

The Independent UK

A storm developing in the Arabian Sea prompts Pakistani officials to shut schools in Karachi

Officials say a tropical storm developing in the Arabian Sea has prompted authorities to shut schools in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city

The Guardian - UK

She wanted a divorce so her father hacked her legs with an axe: how Pakistan fails women

Sobia Batool Shah is being protected in hospital after a mob of male relatives attacked her in a harrowing case that highlights Pakistan’s epidemic of gender-based violence

Al Jazeera

Source: Pakistan to play India in Lahore on March 1 in ICC Champions Trophy

A source inside Pakistan cricket told Al Jazeera that despite the proposed date, India’s participation is questionable.

The Independent UK

Doctors treat thousands of heatstroke victims in southern Pakistan as temperatures soar

Officials say a days-long intense heatwave has disrupted normal life in Pakistan, especially in the southern city of Karachi, where doctors have treated thousands of victims of heatstroke

The Guardian - UK

Moosa Lane review – loving cinematic bridge between two countries and cultures

Shot over 15 years between Denmark and Pakistan, the film-maker captures day-to-day life in Karachi, and explores how freedom and human rights are not doled out equally

The Guardian - UK

‘Our culture is dying’: vulture shortage threatens Zoroastrian burial rites

Inadvertent poisoning of scavengers across Indian subcontinent is forcing some communities to give up ancient custom

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