Saturday, October 9, 2004
Fast new train to cut 2 hours between Karachi, Faisalabad
Pakistan Railways (PR) has decided to start a new passenger train called Millat Express on the Faisalabad-Karachi route on November 7 (21st Ramzan). The train will be the fastest in the country, running at 120km/h, and will slash the travel time between the two cities by almost two hours.
PR sources told Daily Times that the …
Karachi Hosts Peace Concert for Daniel Pearl
About 150 diplomats, politicians, artists, and others paid tribute at a concert by Pakistani musicians to Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was slain in the city by Islamic militants.
Pearl was kidnapped and beheaded in Karachi in 2002 while researching a story on Islamic militancy.
Pakistani vocalist Farooq Ahmed, accompanied by guitarist Amir Zaki, sang …
NetSol wins Pakistan’s top IT exporter award
NetSol Technologies, Inc. a developer of proprietary software applications and provider of information technology (IT) services, today announced it has been recognized by the Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) as the leading information technology exporter in the country, having contributed more than 11 percent of the total IT and ITeS exports during the 2003 - …
Continue reading »Abbas Creates World Record as Pakistan Assail India, Lead Series
Penalty corner expert Sohail Abbas reached a world record of 268 goals in international play Friday, leading Pakistan to a 2-1 field hockey victory over India and an unassailable 4-1 lead in their eight-Test series.
The spectators overflowing the 5,000 seats in the Guru Hargobind Stadium in northern India’s Punjab state jumped for joy as Abbas …
