Pakistani News for the Rest of Us

All that school-children in Pakistan know about the hilly Salt Ranges, is that they are home to the oldest and largest rock-salt mines in the world. Every Sunday, groups of students visit the ranges and gaze in wonder at the fascinating spectacle of light filtering though solid walls of salt, with the gentle sound …

Thirty couples, including five non-Muslims, tied the knot on Sunday in a joint wedding ceremony at Aiwan-e-Iqbal, under the supervision of the Punjab government.
Acting Punjab Governor Justice Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry was the chief guest on the occasion, which was attended by over 1,000 guests. After this ceremony, 683 couples have been married. The provincial aims …

Hina Khan, a student of Mass Communication at Kinnaird College for Women, will represent Pakistan at an international conference organised by Harvard University.
The conference will be held in Shanghai from August 18 to 21. Ms Hina will present a paper on ‘Population Planning’.

These channels would include PTV Gold, PTV Sports, PTV Islamic and others. He said that the agreement with the companies would be for five years. He said that 51 percent of the profit would be given to PTV Foundation and 49 percent to the company…

Touched by the decision of Pakistan Government to rename a school in his village of birth after him, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday expressed “warm appreciation for this gesture of goodwill” on the part of his counterpart Shujaat Hussain…