Friday, September 3, 2004
Hunza Fort gets Unesco Award
The Unesco’s regional advisor for culture in Asia and the Pacific announced on Thursday the Baltit Fort of Karimabad in the Hunza region has been honoured with the Award of Excellence in the Unesco 2004 Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for culture heritage conservation.
The awards were announced in Bangkok on September 1. The Baltit Fort was praised …
Pakistanis whetting Indian appetites
The Pakistanis are coming. And in droves to India. The singers were always there from Pakistan — flitting in and out of the country, cutting an album and zooming off to the other side. But off late, there are people from different professions and interests coming to India to see their counterparts. For instance, a …
Continue reading »Aerospace institute to be set up in Islamabad
Keeping in view the importance and the immediate requirement of the country in the field of avionics, establishment of an institute of avionics and aerospace was the need of the hour… The institute will help solve the research and development problems of private and public sector institutions, he observed. The project will be helpful in …
Continue reading »Journalism at college level likely
The Provincial Education Department has been instructed to submit a feasibility report to introduce journalism at college level in the Punjab province.
He told the gathering that he himself had studied as well as taught at the PU Mass Communication Department and remarked that journalism was an art. He also observed that education of journalism or …
Punjab schools to have hiking clubs
The Punjab Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) plans to introduce mountaineering and hiking clubs at schools and colleges.
The department will publish material about tourism facilities in Pakistan, especially in Punjab. The source said although mountaineering and hiking existed in some universities, colleges and schools, the chief minister wanted such clubs in every school and college of …
