Pakistani News for the Rest of Us

Forty-year-old Rifaat Haye is one of the only three women to fly for Pakistan International Airlines.
Fourteen years back she did the unthinkable in Pakistani society.
She began flying lessons and made it as one of only three women to fly for Pakistan International Airlines
“My family was quite supportive of me except my husband never wanted a …

Now Mobilink customers can call any other Mobilink number anywhere in the country and pay only the applicable airtime rate. A customer can be in Islamabad calling Karachi, or be in Peshawar calling Quetta, or in Hyderabad calling Lahore - all calls will be considered local as long as it is …

A project to provide state-of-the-art ophthalmology facilities to people in remote areas had been launched with $5 million financial assistance from Australia…

IMAGINE Tulsi (Kyunki…), Parvati ( Kahani…) and Kashish (Kahiin To Hoga) delivering their lines in Urdu, bereft of silks and sapphires, with no background score to complement their histrionics. This is not the twilight zone of Indian television, but the Pakistani counterparts of our popular serials on the GEO TV and ARY Digital Networks channels. …

Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) Managing Director Arshad Khan directed PTV to televise programmes that focused on “neglected segments” such as programmes for children, senior citizens and teenagers, PTV sources told Daily Times on Friday.
“Mr Khan has issued directions to the programming section to televise programmes at timings that would be most convenient for the section …

Mohammed Ahmed, the ten-day-old Pak baby, who developed complications in an Indian Airlines flight from Delhi to Bangalore where he was to undergo heart surgery, is in stable condition at a cardiac hospital here.
Ahmed was airlifted to Bangalore on Thursday after the flight had an emergency landing Wednesday at Hyderabad to save him.
The …

Over the years it has been called the mountain of mountains, the savage mountain and in more contemporary parlance, a death trap.
So perilous is K2, that Hollywood movies have been made that dramatically chronicle its perils.
Fifty years ago on 31 July, two Italian climbers, Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni, braved wind, rain and …

The government came out with a clear cut policy in the National Assembly on Friday regarding showing of Indian movies in Pakistan, saying screening of Bollywood films would help the government in collecting millions of rupees in taxes.
Minister for Culture and Tourism Rais Munir Ahmed told the lower House during the question hour that …

The Parks and Horticulture Authority will develop a ‘History Street’ for highlighting the historic buildings in the Walled City while the City District Government will restore the existing city gates.
Chief Secretary Kamran Rasul was informed about the plan by Parks and Horticulture Authority Director-General Shabbir Ahmad and District Coordination Officer Khalid Sultan during a …

Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Sami earned the dubious distinction of bowling the longest over in one-day cricket internationals during the Asia Cup match against Bangladesh here today.
The 23-year-old sent down seven wides and four no balls taking 17 deliveries to complete his second over against Bangladesh, the last Super League match of the…

The annual growth of the manufacturing and industrial sector has significantly increased by 130 % during 2003-04 against the target of 7 % fixed for the last fiscal.
According to sources the government had fixed manufacturing growth target of 7 % for the last fiscal but the country has not only achieved the target but also …

This is reference to the article by Richard Bulliet “Worry about Pakistan, not Iran.” Having lived in and loved both Pakistan and Iran, I can safely say that some of the writers assertions were based on blatant untruths, concocted deliberately to defame Pakistan. It seems to me that the only political pawn for people like …

The scars around her eyes were visible even before the young Pakistani woman lifted her veil, showing TV viewers the burns suffered when her husband doused her with kerosene and set her on fire. Such a spectacle until recently would have been too shocking for Pakistani television.
But two private cable-TV channels — one beamed …

Nursing bandaged, frostbitten feet, Edurne Pasaban has just joined the ranks of the international mountaineering circuit’s elite.
On Monday, the slim 30-year-old from Spain became only the sixth woman to reach the the peak of K2, the world’s second highest mountain. The other five are all dead.
They either died during the descent, like Britain’s Alison Hargreaves, …