Pakistani News for the Rest of Us

The French literary event of the spring promises to be not the tortured musings of some silk-shirted philosopher but the memoirs of this 52-year-old Pakistani who came to France as an illegal immigrant and is now a hero of the Latin Quarter. Akbar travelled through Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Romania and Sweden before …

The car took 25 minutes for the warm-up and after that thousands of spectators present on both sides of the main Boulevard Gulberg witnessed a spectacle, which they only have seen on a TV screen before. The loud nose of the sports car not only made the spectators to close their ears but the prominent …

With her husband out of town, Janet Constantinou decided on the fly to attend a lunch at the home of a friend’s friend. She walked through the crowd of strangers laughing, talking passionately and gesturing boldly, and found herself before a table of plates brimming with Pakistani curries and rice, and heaps of thin brown …

Over 300 scientists and mathematical experts from all over the world are expected to participate in the second three-day ‘World Conference on 21st Century Mathematics’ to be held in the city from March 4. Higher Education Commission chairman Dr Attaur Rehman will inaugurate the conference being organized by the School of Mathematical Sciences (SMS) of …

PAKISTAN hockey officials have unveiled a blueprint to revive their country’s fortunes, having not won a major tournament since the 1994 World Cup. Pakistan, three-time Olympic and four-time world champion, has remained empty-handed for 11 years since winning the World Cup and the Champions Trophy in the same year. Kirmani said the new plan, …