Pakistani News for the Rest of Us

A crowd of about 400 girls and boys went wild chanting the band’s name as the charismatic pair from Pakistan led them to the land of musical bliss. This was the scene on Thursday evening at the Gargi College fest, where Strings gave a rousing performance. As soon as the concert began, the barricades were …

This three-day motor show, exhibiting local as well as foreign manufactured vehicles will remain open for the general public on December 18 and 19, who could enter into the premises by showing their driving licenses. The show providing an opportunity to automobile industry in the country to exhibit their latest products and mop up the …

The Annemarie-Schimmel-Haus, a non government organisation, in collaboration with Goethe- Institute in Karachi and the Lahore Arts Council organised a concert titled ‘Woodwind Chamber Music Concert’ at the Cultural Complex on Friday. Orsolino Quintet, a musicians’ band comprising Walter Auer, Anne Marckardt, Jochen Tschabrun, Jan Wessely and Marion Reinhard, performed in the concert.
Orsolino Quintet, the …

Pakistan won silver medal in Third World Pankration Athlima (kick boxing and karate) Team Championship held at Community Recreation Center, Sydney, Australia last month. Three Pakistanis – Sarfraz Hussain, Hashim Khan and Muhammad Ayub Awan – also earned bronze medals in individual competitions of the championship. Hosts Australia clinched gold medal, while losing semi-finalists …

Our view of the world around us is often shaped by the latest technology, like the cameras that bring us around-the-clock news about the turbulence in south Asia.
A group of Pakistani artists, however, are bucking the trend by using a centuries-old medium to interpret current events in often daring ways that challenge perceptions filtered …

Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf opened a coastal highway on Thursday linking the main industrial city of Karachi with a deep-sea port being built with Chinese help in the country’s south.
People in Baluchistan, Pakistan’s largest but poorest province, have for years complained that governments have ignored its development. The road is expected to open up …

Pakistan received an amount of $1609.76 million as workers’ remittances during the first five months of the current fiscal year from July to November 2004, as against $1488.08 million received in the corresponding period of the last fiscal year, registering an increase of $121.68 million or 8.18 per cent. During last month, workers remitted …

Farrukh Ashraf repaired the shoes with 2½-inch heels worn by the precision dance troupe, which finished a 37-performance run of “Radio City Christmas Spectacular” here last week. “The work was not that hard; it’s just so many of them at one time,” Ashraf said recently while gluing rubber-sole protectors to 24 pairs of T-strap leather …

Pakistan and India are likely to establish an optic fiber phone link soon to improve telecommunications between the two countries, a Pakistani news channel reported Tuesday.
Management control of the company will also be transferred to the buyer of the stake. In the past, Singapore’s SingTel, Egypt’s Orascom Telecom and other Middle Eastern telecom operators have …

Business Software Alliance (BSA) Wednesday announced a national article writing competition for journalists on the ills of software piracy, offering Rs. 90,000 cash awards. The winner would get the Rs. 40,000 bumper prize, while the two runners up would be awarded Rs. 30,000 and Rs. 20,000 each respectively.
The competition is open to all the …

The Alliance Against Sexual Harassment (AASHA) is organising a working women’s assembly on Dec 22to highlight various problems being faced by women at workplaces. A large number of women rights activists, journalists, intellectuals, academicians and other opinion makers will also attend the daylong conference to be held at a local hotel.
Sameena Pirzada, Sanya Saeed, …

Makro, a company owned by SHV Holdings of the Netherlands, has decided to invest in Pakistan in a business that would promote fresh produce and local products in the domestic and international markets. According to a press release on December 13, Makro is a high volume, no frills wholesaler of food and other items …

THE Pakistan Society of Harrow are setting up a Matrimonial Agency to help eligible Asians in Harrow to meet their ideal partner. The society based in Northolt Road has been going for two years and their aims are to look after the interests of the Pakistani community by catering for their cultural, social, educational …

The monopoly of the state-owned telecom giant, Pakistan Telecommunications Company (PTCL), over fixed line telephones, is coming to an end in Karachi with the start of the new year, as two new private telecom operators are ready to provide fixed line as well as wireless connections to new subscribers.
The PTA official said that in …