Pakistani News for the Rest of Us

Musharaf Hai, chairman of Unilever Pakistan has made it to Fortune Magazine’s 2004 ranking of the 50 most powerful women in business.
Hai, who is ranked at number 46 on the list, is the only woman from Pakistan to make it to the popular ranking. “The most prominent businesswoman in a country where women usually aren’t …

Insiyah Nomanbhoy, 17, a Pakistani-American teenager studying at Castilleja Girl’s High School (A-levels), in Palo Alto, CA, USA, was recently chosen by her school and Save The Children, an International Charitable Organization, to be a teen representative on their “2004 Women’s Delegation to Ethiopia and Uganda.”
In March 2004, Insiyah and her fellow students at Castilleja …

A unique exhibition of calligraphy in ceramics and pottery by well known artist, Dabir Ahmed, was inaugurated at ‘The Art Gallery’ on Monday evening.
Dabir, who graduated from the National College of Arts (NCA) in 1966 and then adopted a teaching career at the same institution from 1976 till the time he retired as the Head …

Pakistan’s tennis prodigy Aisamul Haq Qureshi breezed into the final of the ITF Futures International Tennis Championship in Lagos, Nigeria, after scoring a brilliant victory over South African Davis Cupper Raven Klaasen, said a facsimile message received here Monday.
Aisam lost the first set 1-6 under hot and humid conditions. It was a real bad day …