Omar R Quraishi

There seems to be considerable shock and surprise by people, especially those who constitute the bulk of the country's civil society elite, at the revelation by the Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah that the alleged mastermind of Sabeen Mahmud's killing is Saad Aziz, a 2011 graduate of the prestigious IBA, Karachi.

By Web Desk In her weekly briefing, Foreign Office spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said in response to a question that 10 Pakistani sailors were currently being detained at a police station in the Indian state of Gujarat after their boat capsized on April 2. She said that since they were being housed in the police station, they did not have proper lodging and that this was of serious concern. The Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi had approached the Indian government for their early repatriation to Pakistan, she said.

By Web Desk Students at America's prestigious Harvard University in the state of Massachusetts on April 29 held a vigil for slain Pakistani rights campaigner and activist Sabeen Mahmud.

By Web Desk A letter dated March 27, 2015, sent by the Government of Punjab's Higher Education Department to all rectors and vice-chancellors of public and private sector universities in the province, bearing the subject title "Anti-Pakistan and anti-cultural research topics/studies in universities of the Punjab" says that universities need to "play a constructive role in nurturing nationalism amongst the youth".

In a Facebook post put up on its Facebook page on the evening of April 28, The Second Floor -- the brainchild of Sabeen Mahmud who was killed by unidentified men in Karachi on April 24 -- announced that it was closing till further notice.

US billionaire and real estate magnate Donald J Trump, known for his blunt, and often xenophobic comments has landed himself in a storm -- on Twitter at least.

Web Desk Ali Askar, a lecturer at the University of Peshawar, was one of those killed in yesterday's rainstorm that hit the city and several areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.