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KARACHI: Pakistani actor and producer Hareem Farooq has said that her new film Mango Jutt, which releases in cinemas worldwide on Oct. 16, presents a different side of Punjab and pushes back against the image long associated with the usual Punjabi film heroine.

Pakistan may finally be edging toward a political breakthrough. After months of unacknowledged contacts, the government and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the party of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, have entered formal talks as the party’s Oct. 4 long march approaches. The opening is fragile. Yet both sides may now be confronting a reality they…

The top official in Pakistan’s Balochistan province has ruled out negotiations with insurgents