Pakistani News for the Rest of Us

What city has the fastest growing stock market in the world? Karachi. What English language high school consistently tops out the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores? Karachi Grammar School. What country has the fastest growing cell phone market? Pakistan. The statistics go on and on. Reading statistics is no substitute for seeing a place. …

The families of Wajahat Ahmed and Tayaba Sharif are from Pakistan, but Tayaba is a young woman reared in a traditional home in Saudi Arabia. In 1997, Wajahat came to Arizona from Karachi, Pakistan, to study electrical engineering at Arizona State University. In the fall of 2002, he traveled to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, during …

WITH the telecommunications sector in Pakistan remaining vastly untapped, Malaysia’s Dancom Group, which expanded here a decade ago, has set its sights on gaining a bigger share of the market. Dancom Holdings Bhd ventured into Pakistan in 1995 through its joint-venture company, Dancom Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd, with a 60% stake in the latter. …