Pakistani News for the Rest of Us

Pakistan’s power regulators will today break the seals on bids from investment banks and generating consultants seeking to advise on power generation contracts worth at least $1.5bn. The power station, which would provide an extra 1,500MW of capacity, marks Pakistan’s most ambitious effort in more than a decade to raise investment in its resource-starved power …

Inspiration comes in the form of Sonny, a Pakistani gentleman who runs a mini-mart in the lobby of my office building. There are probably 1,000 people working in my building, and on any given day, at least 10 percent of us complain about our jobs. And though he has more to complain about than anyone, …

The humane and brotherly feelings found vent when an extremely well-enacted Urdu play was presented to a jam-packed audience at the Azam campus. What made the event unique was the presence of around 20 Pakistanis and their Indian hosts, who applauded every scene of the play, Jis Lahore Naee Dekhya, written by Asghar Wajahat of …

American companies are finding a low-cost pool of educated English speakers that rivals neighboring India. So far, the bet by Armbruster’s company, TRG Pakistan Ltd., is paying off. It recently branched beyond its main office in Lahore and opened a second office in Karachi, the nation’s commercial center. By year-end, TRG hopes to expand to …

Heavy snowfall on Islamabad’s Margalla Hills, Abbottabad, Northern Areas and Azad Kashmir kept people indoors. Traffic remained suspended in some areas of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and the Northern Areas (NA), while flights to NAs were also disrupted due to rains and snowfall. Scattered rain was had been forecast in Balochistan on Sunday, …