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 …