Pakistani News for the Rest of Us

In recent weeks, a huge controversy has raged around Junoon. Though notoriety is nothing new for the band, this time matters took a serious turn as speculation concerning the group’s break-up threatened to transform into cold, hard truth with the exit of bassist Brian O’Connell. Despite Salman Ahmad’s silence at the time, it was crystal …

A seven-day festival of films starring the legendary Waheed Murad, popularly known as Chocolate Hero, will open at a local cinema in the city on September 3. The festival is being organised by the All Waheedi Club, a community of Waheed Murad fans from all over Pakistan.
Seven films by Waheed Murad – Armaan, Awaz, Perkh, …

Bilateral trade between Indian and Pakistan has gone up by more than 100 per cent increase at $476 million in 2003-2004 over that of the previous year. The statistics released by Pakistan ahead of next week’s foreign ministers meeting in New Delhi show that the level of total trade between the two countries stood at …

Pakistan will feature as the “Focus Country” at the ASAP Global Sourcing Show starting on Sunday at Las Vegas, USA. “The ASAP Global is the largest garment sourcing show held in the US,” its country manager in Pakistan Nadeem Sarwar said at a news conference here on Saturday. “This special status allows Pakistan several free-of-cost …

Young people and children, some so small they are barely able to walk, are the favourite customers at Karachi’s cycle market, but shopkeepers complain few young buyers came during the just-ended summer vacations due to the greater security problems in the city this year.
The main business months at the cycle market at Gari Khata, opposite …

Since acquiring of VERISYS, a passport office normally processes about 350 records of passport applicants daily. Before introduction of VERISYS, it used to initiate 350 manual verifications per day, which consequently were resulting in volumetric correspondence and maintenance of records, the process used to take at least 15 days. After installation of VERISYS, as many …

The ground reality, strong and firm beneath the dulcet notes of diplomatic diatribes and foreign office blessed trains, buses and cricket matches is that Allama Mohammad Iqbal may still be the most sought after Urdu poet on this side of the border. If the marketplace is the best yardstick of popular predilection, he definitely is, …

Shiny bustiers beneath transparent ponchos. Plunging necklines and stringy blouses. Strappy numbers that flatter the figure. If your perception of Pakistani women was based on what’s shown on PTV World, brace for a culture shock.
If Karachi-based designer Cyma Almakky — some of whose creations are on show at the Bride and Groom exhibition in Delhi …

Inspired by [mobile operator] U-Fone’s marketing campaign in which it extended cell phone connections to multitude of people from August 14 to 17, Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), has decided to extend free connections to the prospective customers from September 2 to 8…

The government on Friday approved a 45-megawatt windmill power project for Karachi under a 400 megawatt wind energy programme to be implemented at a cost of $400 million.
The project was approved by the Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB), which consists of the New Park Energy, a consortium of General Electric (wind energy) Germany, Dorsch Consult …

Even as the Governments of the two countries are still deliberating on steps for greater cultural exchanges between India and Pakistan, including release of Indian films across the border, Dobara, is all set to have its premiere in Lahore on September 4.
The premiere of the film, which features, for the first time, Pakistani actor Muammar …

Palmchip Corporation, a pioneer in semiconductor IP and system-on-chip platform technology, today announced that they are launching a new company to be called Palmchip Semiconductor, Inc. The company will focus on providing chips for wireless storage applications and will soon announce the first wireless storage Application Specific Standard Product. (ASSP) . In support of their …

The master chefs from Lahore’s Avari Hotel are here with Pakistan’s robust flavours for a 10-day food festival at Andheri’s ITC Grand Maratha Sheraton’s The Peshwa Pavilion. At the other end of the city, chefs Wakeel Ahmed and Azam Hussain Bhatti (of Pakistan International Airlines) have brought yet another native food fest, at Marine Plaza’s …

Mehr Khan Williams, a Pakistani national, has been appointed as UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Commission.
Khan Williams has worked for the United Nations since 1976. She has held senior management positions in New York, Florence and Bangkok with UNICEF and has also served as Acting Director of the United Nations Information Centre in …