Pakistani News for the Rest of Us

The five-member team of the Debating Society of Pakistan (DPS) took third place in the World Schools Debating Championships (WSDC) 2005. Teams from 31 countries contested the tournament. Australia stood first while England came second. The Pakistani team also achieved first position in a regional tournament held in Canada. This is the first time …

First ever Pakistani car is all set to roll out for commercial sale in the last week of March or first week of April this year with more than 70 per cent indigenised parts. Initially, it was driven from Karachi to Ormara in 43 degree Celsius, then from Karachi to Peshawar once via Lahore and …

The first solo exhibition of young sculptor-cum-painter, Abdul Jabbar Gul, opened here at Nomad Gallery on Tuesday. As many as 30 wooden sculptures, 20 paintings , some in oil on canvas and a few on colour wash, have been put on display. Some of his art pieces have serene quality such as the …

Also an actor, Tevana is currently on a promotional tour across the South Asian Sub-Continent and the Middle East and the single launched it’s airplay there today, coinciding with Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. John McCain’s visit to the region, on City FM 89, Pakistan’s first radio station primarily focused on Western and English music. …

Over 300 members of the Cornell and Ithaca community attended “My Big Fat Pakistani Wedding,” an event sponsored by the Pakistani Students Association (PSA). PSA president Saleem Malkana ‘06 said he hoped that presenting a mock wedding, complete with dinner, dancing and a professional mehndi artist, would be “the best way” to portray Pakistani culture. …

Rahman Baba is the Pashtuns’ most revered poet. Pashtun culture has suffered over the past few years with its link to the Taleban and Osama bin Laden. But that image may soon be revised with the efforts of two English teachers, Robert Sampson and Momin Khan Jaja, based in Pakistan’s North-Western Frontier Province. Working …

The biggest women’s colleges of India and Pakistan have started a student exchange programme aimed at boosting ties among a new generation after decades of hostility between the two countries. The Lady Sriram College (LSR) in New Delhi and Lahore’s Kinnaird College have joined hands to give students learning journalism and mass communication a chance …

A new three part mini-series to hit British newsagents last Tuesday, features Ali as a trendy teenager with Sofia, his bride-to-be, as a partner in crime. As a British Asian, Ali finds in difficult to relate to his families traditions and customs. However he feels much better when he finds that Sofia, who he is …

Mansoora’s ongoing conceptual photographic video projects, ‘The Black Burqa: 9/11’, ‘Afghan Burqa: Begging for Peace’ and ‘Bound/Unbound’ depict the current global landscape. The artist uses the projects to take apart stereotypes. These are not comfortable works and are fraught with unanswered questions, said Saleema Hashmi, a former National College of Arts principal. Mansoora, who was …

Outsourcing business in the country through IT-enabled services has crossed over $10 million mark with rapid growth of call centres and operators are optimistic to touch $20 million figures by the fiscal end. Country’s IT industry made comeback last year - first time after 9/11 incident - when the software export touched $32.22 million, which …

The excavations carried out at Mehrgarh have proved that the site represents a highly developed civilization that existed there until around 8,000 years ago, according to a French archaeologist. The mission has been doing exploratory work in Balochistan for nearly three-and-a-half decades. He said that Mehrgarh and its associated sites provided irrevocable evidence of …

Total car production increased by 23 percent during the first seven months of current fiscal year to 64,203 units as compared to 52,267 units during the same period last year. Whereas sales of cars recorded a surge of 26 percent to reach 65,803 units in July-January 2004-05 as compared to 52,302 units during the corresponding …

It is only a bus, but it gives a tired-looking peace process a burst of life. AT LAST, what looks like a breakthrough in the long quest for peace by India and Pakistan. Optimists believe that the opening of the roads linking the two halves of Kashmir could be the bond that keeps the peace. …

Fast-moving Pakistan has stolen a march on India in civil aviation by announcing the deployment of the world’s longest range commercial airplane, the Boeing 777-200LR Worldliner, which can fly non-stop from the United States to virtually any city in Asia. The plane was unveiled on Tuesday at the Boeing plant in Everett, Washington, before …