Pakistani News for the Rest of Us

Following a rare initiative involving an international health agency, an airline and the administration of a hospital in Karachi, a kidney was flown in from Europe and transplanted into an 18-year-old Pakistani, Uzma, in the early hours of Sunday.
A patient of end-stage renal disease, Uzma had been on dialysis for the last more …

China has promised to send 65 new freight wagons to the Pakistan Railways (PR) on November 26 while Germany is providing the PR with state-of-the-art track sensing technology, sources told Daily Times on Monday.
The new lot of wagons is part of a shipment of 400 freight wagons to Pakistan from China under an earlier contract. …

The archaeology department’s preservation and restoration team has discovered eight antiquities consisting fragments including the sculpture of future Buddha, god Indra and his bodyguard dating back to the first century AD.
The antiquities had been discovered during the preservation work at the ancient and world famous archaeological site of the Gandhara civilisation locally known as …

Pakistan’s business leaders expect the Karachi stock market to rise today, driven by the decision of Shaukat Aziz, prime minister, to end ahead of schedule the country’s loan programme with the International Monetary Fund.
“The begging bowl has been broken forever,” said Mr Aziz on Friday evening as he announced that Pakistan had declined the last …

In an era characterised by credit card culture, debit cards are gaining popularity, among all sorts of bank account holders. In the western countries, the debit card was already quite popular. However, in the East also, the use of debit cards is on increase.
The simple reason why the use of debit card is increasing …

The city of Nawabs is hosting Pakistani food festival to give with the Lucknawis a taste of the sumptuous Lahori spread.
Began on Friday, the “Zaika-e-Pakistan” aims at familiarising the people of Lucknow with the delicacies of Pakistan. Pakistani chefs would fly down especially to Lucknow Pakistan to prepare the vegetarian and non-vegetarian delicacies.
Pakistani …

The renowned ‘Orfeon Chamber Choir’ from Ankara, Turkey, gave a charismatic performance at the Turkish embassy auditorium on Thursday evening to mark the 66th anniversary of the directive issued by Quaid-i-Azam to observe November 18 as ‘Kemal Day’ throughout the subcontinent.
The performance started a little late because of the delayed arrival of Foreign Minister Khurshid …

I am a physically handicapped person because of my legs but facing all odds of life with courage and dignity. When I was of 2 years of age, I got a leg injury. I was not born physically handicapped. Some thing went wrong during my 12 years long treatment. After that I could not …

Mukhtar Yusaf knows about patience. For 18 years he has worked as a waiter, explaining menus and specials to customers night after night. He is from Pakistan, where patience is a way of life, especially when it comes to cooking.
“There are no shortcuts to flavor,'’ Yusaf says, brandishing a wooden ladle in his small, impeccably …

The Goethe Institut will screen seven feature films on its newly opened premises over a month. The film festival will begin on Thursday. The movies will be screened on Thursdays and Mondays at 7pm.
According to a brochure issued by the German cultural centre, the first film to be screened is titled Halbe Treppe (Grill point). …

AWAIS Javed (22) fought with his parents. Mohammad Hanif (22) has put his plans of taking the civil services exam on hold. Rana Waqas Ahmed (22) juggles his lectures in physiotherapy with rehearsals.
All this for theatre—and peace between India and Pakistan.
Twenty-one students from various educational institutions in Lahore are in Mumbai—for the first …

Pakistanis living in Riyadh celebrated Eid Al-Fitr in a traditional way, despite the changes in lifestyle brought about by modern trends. Most Pakistani expatriates preferred to wear traditional dresses, colorful bangles and henna patterns during the celebration. Scores of men, young and old, were seen chewing betel quids, picnicking in the desert and holding gossip …

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education have named Akbar S. Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies and professor of international relations at American University, the 2004 District of Columbia Professor of the Year.
Mr Ahmed is the former high commissioner of Pakistan to …

Worcestershire county cricket club have signed fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar for the 2005 season subject to official clearance from the Pakistan Cricket Board.
In a statement on its official website on Wednesday the second division club said Shoaib would be available from July 1.
“Shoaib is a world class strike bowler in both forms of the game …