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The air around Alhamra Cultural Complex was charged with excitement as throngs swarmed to see the opening of the much-awaited World Performing Arts Festival on Friday night.
The festival, which was organised by a known cellular company and the Rafi Peer Theatre (RPT) boasted up-to-the-mark performances and excellent stage light arrangements. Disco lights had been …

A new cable television channel that claims to be the first US Muslim lifestyle network in English debuts next week, bringing to fruition an idea born in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
Bridges TV founder and chief executive Muzzammil Hassan, who moved to the United States from Pakistan in 1979, says his wife came …

Corporate sector received the largest chunk of 54 per cent of the total credit extended by the financial sector in 2003, followed by small and medium enterprises or SMEs that received 19 per cent.
According to a report titled Pakistan: Financial Sector Assessment 2003, agriculture and consumer finance sectors each received about 8 per …

Crocodiles with huge teeth-filled mouths lie in the sand and slap their snouts on the edge of sulphur springs, greeting worshippers who journey to the Mango Pir shrine on the outskirts of Karachi.
It is one of thousands of Sufi shrines where millions of devotees come from all corners of the country to pray, chant, …

Viagra, the world’s renowned magic medicine to treat male impotency, is coming to Pakistan as it has passed all the tests and crossed almost every hiccup to be in the shelves of country’s medical stores.
The high-powered federal drug appellate board of the health ministry met early this week in Islamabad and has reached closed to …

Microsoft Pakistan has launched its global Empower Program for the software industry in Pakistan with active support and participation from the Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) and Pakistan Software Houses Association (PASHA) at a launching ceremony here today.
Jawwad Rehman, Country Manager, Microsoft Pakistan said that the Empower program would provide an extremely cost-effective and …