Pakistani News for the Rest of Us

Skyrocketing prices of roses - from Rs.12 to Rs.200 a dozen - have not dampened the enthusiasm of Lahore’s young as they prepare to celebrate Valentine’s Day Monday. This also reflects a new trend in otherwise conservative Pakistan. It’s not just rose prices that have shot through the roof. Cake shops, card shops and sweetmeat …

Bishop Chane has expressed praise for Dr Ahmed’s work and contribution towards creating greater interfaith understanding and harmony in the present environment of distrust. The Pakistani academic and author holds the American University’s Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies. He is also professor of international relations. The former High Commissioner of Pakistan to UK and …

Pakistan’s top securities designer on Saturday suggested revolutionary changes in the electronic National Identity Card (NIC) with an aim to make it more secure. History goes back to 1970-1975 when first NIC campaign took into consideration seriously. The first issued card was absolutely unsecured for the following reasons: Easily photo copied by colour copier. Easily …

Set in 1979, the film captures Pakistan as Islamic militancy was just finding its footing. The Russians were about to invade Afghanistan. The shah was deposed in Iran. Clerics and fundamentalist college teachers were rabble-rousing the young all over the region.And Ayesha (Kiron Kher) would love to protect her son, Saleem (Aamir Ali Malik), from …

Pakistani terrestrial PTV is set to begin airing 21st Century Woman, a creation of Zeal’s The Chatterbox Partnership that was produced for Unilever’s SUNSILK hair-care brand. The series, produced by the Karachi-based Nucleus Entertainment, is due to commence airing in a primetime slot on PTV this month. According to Zeal Television, it follows a group …

Pakistan has launched an aggressive effort to woo global corporations to farm out technology tasks with a view to creating hundreds of thousands of new jobs and rake in billions of dollars in foreign exchange. The country’s IT industry leaders say it has all the strong fundamentals that have turned India into an electronics housekeeper …

Under the current procedure, all the application forms submitted at the Pakistani missions in the UAE are sent to the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) in Pakistan. Nicop is a machine-readable document that facilitates movement through the immigration controls. Its swiping feature makes it a safeguard against misuse. It also offers unique privileges and …

A SENIOR police officer from Pakistan will travel to Cardiff next month to help Wales address the taboo problem of “honour crimes” against women. Some cultures, mainly from Asia, set so much store by res-pectability that women are punished - sometimes by murder - for any act deemed to bring dishonour on their families. Police …

Zafar Gill, a boxer from WAPDA, has got his name registered in the Guinness Book of World Records by lifting 51.7 kilogrammes by one ear on May 26, 2004. He broke the earlier record of China’s Li Jian Hua who lifted a column of bricks weighing 50 kilogrammes by one ear for 9.3 seconds …

Bridgettes stole the limelight in women trials to select the team to represent Pakistan in the BFAME Zonal Bridge Championship to be held in Bangladesh later this year.Bridgettes, comprising Rehana Saigol, Zeenat Azwer, Samia Rasheed, Sheerin Bokhari, Abeda Ali and Shahnaz Peerzada, earned the right of representing Pakistan by winning the trials which concluded here …

While Iranian coach Safee has taken eleven karatikaz to Iran on a training tour, four coaches - Sengli from China, Tarik Lutfee from Egypt and Won and Soe, both from South Korea - are hectically administering the training of the athletes for the mega event. Pakistan are scheduled to participate in 11 of the 15 …

The appetite for reality TV in Pakistan is growing with networks like Geo TV and PTV both joining the party in recent weeks, the latter with a format acquired from UK indie Zeal Television. Zeal’s Dubai office is in production on the advertiser-sponsored talent show Sunsilk 21st Century Woman (13×60′), a primetime series being coproduced …

Karachi - 39-k block 6 - P.E.C.H.S. - Sometimes you will see a white light glowing at night.? Also people have reported seeing a very pale women wearing a white dress walk around for about a minute then disappear at about 3:00 in the morning, it has also been said that this lady had been …

The course of true love never did run smooth, and between sub-continental siblings, India and Pakistan, the bard’s words never rang truer. Buffalo, you ask, with that slightly curled lip. Not if you are in Haryana or Punjab (on either side of the border), where the true worth of such animals is well appreciated. Doubtless, …