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Cardiff resident Zakia Ahmed also received an MBE for work in her community. Over the last 30 years, she has set up the Pakistani Women’s Association, the Pakistan Educational and Cultural Association and the Asian Cultural Association. She has helped hundreds of women from ethnic minorities to improve their English, learn new skills, set up …

Rahman, 28, along with Alexander Asseily, 29, set out to take advantage of that fact by improving upon a vital cellphone accessory that doesn’t get much attention: the headset. The pair founded Aliph, a Brisbane, California-based audio and speech technology company, which just released its first product. Called Jawbone, the product is a high-tech headset …

The New Year dawns with a feast for art lovers as Omani Society for Fine Arts joins hands with Pakistan Embassy to bring some of the best works of top Pakistani artists to Oman. The 10-day exhibition, titled ‘Diverse Voices – Contemporary Art from Pakistan’, will be inaugurated by His Highness Sayyid Shihab bin Tariq …

Now Karla Howard and Gail Jones, of Northants Police, will spend 10 days in Karachi holding training seminars. It is part of a Foreign and Commonwealth Office project aimed at building links with South Asian countries. There is a huge amount of interest in this in Pakistan at the moment - even the president himself …

The Samjhauta Express, the Sada-e-Sarhad Delhi-Lahore bus service, cricket diplomacy or Dostkari, the handicraft workshop, these are all a part of the government’s confidence-building measures designed to thaw cross-border relations between India and Pakistan. And now independent business collaboration between the two countries is trying to create a similar goodwill. Pakistan’s well-known sufi rock band …

he VC told the delegation that the university had over 20,000 Persian manuscripts and would like Iranian universities to help preserve them. He said the university would also like to cooperate with Iranian universities in improving curriculum, teaching methods and faculty training facilities. The Punjab University, during the VC’s recent visit to Iran, signed …

Pakistan will host the Second South Asian Conference on Sanitation-SACOSAN in 2005 and Ministry of Environment has taken responsibility for organizing this conference. Hinting at the gravity of the issues he disclosed that 35% still lack proper sanitary facilities which results in contamination of water leading to wide incidence of water borne diseases. He informed …

Most parts of the country received heavy to light rain, accompanied by chilly winds which brought temperature considerably down. Some parts of the country also received heavy to normal snowfall. Different parts of Northern Areas and Balochistan received snowfall up to one foot on Friday, a weather expert in Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) told Dawn. …

A cabinet committee on Friday approved the designs of Rs20 and Rs5,000 denomination currency notes. The cabinet committee on design of currency notes met here with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz in the chair. According to an official handout, the designs were presented to the committee by the chairman of the Printing Corporation of Pakistan. The …

United Kingdom-based Pakistani singer Raja Kashif, trained by acclaimed composer Ravi Shankar, has announced the completion of a duet album with film singer Alga Yagnik. The duet, produced by Indian company Saray Gama HMV, is Yagnik’s first non-film work…

The federal government has formally contacted the Balochistan government for acquiring 10,000 acres of land to set up a tax-free industrial zone in the port city of Gwadar. The transfer of land was likely in the next few weeks, said sources. Sources said the federal government had decided to set up a tax-free industrial zone …