Monday, August 23, 2004
Taboo TV comes to Pakistan living rooms
One recent Sunday evening at midnight in a town near here, Kohsar Riaz sat down eagerly in her favorite living room chair for her weekly dose of ARY One World network’s “Drama Hour” and was instantly engrossed in the depressing tale of a hijra (cross-dresser) disowned by family and friends, desperate for acceptance and hopelessly …
Continue reading »National Art Gallery to open in Islamabad
The National Art Gallery is finally surfacing at a prominent place on the Constitution Avenue after a number of designs and various site relocations.
The project, costing Rs 250 million, is expected to be complete by the end of this year. The gallery’s building has been designed in a way that art collections will be displayed …
Playground for blind girls opens in Lahore
The Caritas Pakistan, a non-governmental organisation, has built a playground for blind girls in Youhanabad. Abdul Rauf Rohilla, district governor of the Rotary Club Midtown, inaugurated the playground on Sunday. He praised Caritas Pakistan for helping the blind and pledged that the Rotary Club was always ready to cooperate with Caritas…
Continue reading »Work on Karachi desalination plant begins
With the inauguration of a $100 million cogeneration plant designed to generate 94 megawatts of electricity and three million gallons of desalinated water a day by the Defence Housing Authority , work on a long-awaited project has finally got under way.
According to a document issued by the DHA detailing the salient features of the plant, …
The cut-throat cell phone competition in Pakistan
Smelling a cut-throat competition after the advent of two more cellular phone companies, the existing operators have geared their efforts up for an improved market share.
After free roaming incentive and a host of other offers - the state-owned Ufone, on the eve of Pakistan’s Independence Day, made ripples in the telecommunication market by providing free …
Pakistani’s cartoons included in US university books
An American university has included illustrations of the first Pakistani female cartoonist, Nigar Nazar, in its two books, a press release here Saturday said.
The Career Center of the University of Oregon, USA, in a letter have expressed their appreciation and gratitude to Nigar Nazar of Gogi fame, for her valuable contribution in illustrating their two …
