Pakistani News for the Rest of Us

The event comprises a six-kilometre walk from ‘The Area 51′ to the Golf Course. In around half-way during the walk, a family festival featuring stalls for children’s games, snacks and food, etc., has also being organized. This is the second festival of its series organized by the TCF. The previous event, held last year, earned …

Since partition, Hassim Hyder is the first player from across the border to play the entire Jaipur season. The talented player from Lahore is winning hearts at Jaipur these days. At 22, Hyder is a star of the Pakistan team and has played polo in over a dozen countries. But playing at Jaipur is a …

They are already planning to come back to Bahrain, after performing at the Pakistan Club’s Pothohari Musical Night, over Eid. Pothohari is a regional language spoken in Upper areas of Punjab including Rawalpindi, Attock, Chakwal, Jehlum and adjoining areas spreading up to Kashmir. The mountainous region is famous as a land of warriors and at …

According to a coordinator of Dawn in Education Spelling Bee Contest - 2005, as many as 1,569 students, including 864 students from Karachi, have been chosen after balloting from over 162,100 students belonging to 250 schools in the country. The competition for Karachi students will be held at Bahria Auditorium. The speller may ask the …

A photograph exhibition titled ‘Women Care’ by Norwegian resident Morten Krogvold opened at Shakir Ali Museum on Wednesday. The art show has been organised by the Norwegian embassy in collaboration with Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA). Janis Bjorn Kanavin, the ambassador of Norway inaugurated the exhibition. Krogvold, an internationally recognised photographer, travelled the world, …

(PTCL) will launch its Wireless Local Loop (WLL) service in Karachi next month, PTCL is operating approximately 30 exchanges all over Karachi which will provide WLL connections to the subscribers, however, the subscriber would be restricted not to cross maximum 14-kilometer and minimum 6-kilometer range from his exchange.It may be mentioned that the two big …

Over 500 delegates comprising leading psychiatrists, psychologists, intellectuals, physicians and young doctors are expected to participate in the three-day conference. The conference will deliberate on a wide range of issues concerning mental health. The moot court, a courtroom drama, projecting real psychiatric cases and a battle between prosecuting patients and defending psychiatrists, with a neutral …

The Pakistani-American community Saturday celebrated the opening of a new Pakistani Consulate in Chicago. Jehangir Karamat, Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States, and Mayor Daley were on hand to inaugurate the offices at 333 N. Michigan. The consulate will serve Pakistanis in six Midwestern states, home to 60,000 to 100,000 Pakistanis, said Consul Aitzaz Ahmed. …

Pakistani press clubs still rely on archaic methods for receiving and disseminating information. Under the project, a total of 122 press clubs in all four provinces as well as in the Northern Areas will be equipped with computers, Internet connections and email facilities for instant exchange of information. The project also includes basic automation software …

Pakistani music has certainly proved to be the food of love - and so it plays on. And India is now the place to be. Bollywood music apart, the conspicuous lack of an independent music scene across the border has spawned endless possibilities for Pakistani artists. Nearly all Pakistan’s major artists have engaged in joint …

Companies from as far away as Norway have been tempted by Pakistan and its population of 140 million. Since July, 2003, regulators have handed out more than 200 fixed, mobile, and long-distance licenses to some 50 companies. Although there will surely be a shakeout with so many new entrants, officials believe operators will pour as …

Student Irum Mahmood came to the U.S. from Pakistan as a teenager in 1998. She shows off one of her designs, “This is one of the jackets I made, it’s called Princess Kimono, and this is a wool plaid. When I first started here I didn’t even know how to thread a needle, so I …

Abdul Qudoos Arif, commonly known as AQ Arif, a Karachi-based artist comes back to the capital in less than a year’s time but with a different style. Arif seems to have a passion for painting historical buildings and sites of the country. His earlier paintings were realistic and were clear in view like Badshahi Mosque …

Finnish energy business Wärtsilä is to convert a captive power plant in Lahore, Pakistan, to dual-fuel (DF) operation. The conversion is scheduled for completion in the early part of 2005. The power plant is owned by Century Power Generation of Pakistan. The demand for gas and dual-fuel engines is booming in Pakistan. This trend towards …