Pakistani News for the Rest of Us

LAST week Johar Mir, a Pakistani literary icon, passed away in New York City. As is the fate of most writers and poets from the Third World he remained unappreciated and uncelebrated. It was only in recent years that his impact on Urdu literature in general and the literature of resistance in particular was recognized. …

Food streets have become a part of the social culture in metropolitan cities and provide middle class families opportunities to socialise. These new food bazaars offer a variety of traditional and continental dishes at one place at affordable prices besides providing a chance for formal and informal meetings. Going to a food street has become …

After bus diplomacy, it is bonding time for B-schools across the border. And with a cricketing icon of the subcontinent throwing his weight behind the initiative, the endeavour can only pick up pace. To explore Pakistan beyond the campus, the team trooped into the famed Food Street and Anarkali of Lahore and visited some historical …

The Vancouver-based junior oil and gas explorer said Wednesday it had signed a memorandum of agreement with Pakistan’s national oil company to develop the Toot field in Punjab Province, near the capital city of Islamabad. The Toot area is one of the oldest oil producing regions in Pakistan with the first well drilled in 1964.

The number of cellular phone subscribers has reached 7.9 million by December 2004 with 5.14 per cent teledensity, surpassing current fixed line teledensity which is 3.13 per cent. They said there were only 0.2 million mobile phone subscribers across the country in 1999, but with the introduction of various measures in cellular sector by PTA, …