Pakistani News for the Rest of Us

Last century, a charismatic Pakistani scientist had to make a terrible decision: choose between a potentially brilliant career abroad, or remain at home in relative poverty and obscurity.
At that time Pakistan offered no scope for postgraduate work. So Abdus Salam joined the brain drain, went to England, and eventually shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in …

How Karachi scores over Mumbai: The airport is better, the roads are pothole-free, and the people are warm, gracious and more polite, say the Vaziranis.
‘‘We want to share (with you all) just how warm the people of Pakistan are,’’ gushes Mala Vazirani (47) who along with husband Suresh runs Transasia Bio-Medical, a Saki Naka-based diagnostic …

An exhibition of photographs and iron pictures by Chinese artists will open at the Shakir Ali Museum on Monday in connection with the 55th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.
The exhibition will be organised by the Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA) in collaboration with the Chinese Embassy. Some iron pictures …

Over the past five years, investor confidence levels, aided by the quick pace of reforms in Pakistan, have risen steadily and local IT market spend figures soared to $500m annually. It was in 2003 that a group of senior professionals in corporate Pakistan decided to invest in technology, a market that had grown over 300% …