2005 April

As the Karakorum season approaches, a surprising number of teams are looking to tackle Nanga Parbat, the isolated 8125m peak in western Pakistan. At least ten expeditions will head for the mountain starting in mid May. Some of those might consist of different teams sharing the same climbing permit, so the total number will surely [...]

The lead vocalist of Junoon – a radical rock band of the last decade, Ali Azmat, has launched his first solo album titled ‘Social Circus’. The album is released by Sadaf Stereo. Describing his album’s theme, he said it was a personal expression — a kind in which philosophical moods and thematically expressed events of [...]

A BRITON who held television viewers spellbound as he enthusiastically sampled every aspect of life in Pakistan, from dire poverty to the gun law of wild tribal areas, was given his reward yesterday — the promise of Pakistani citizenship. In one of the more challenging reality shows, George Fulton, a burly 26-year-old journalist from Cheshire, [...]

When the late legendary qawwali master Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan first sang in the United States, his concerts weren’t so different from those he performed in his native Pakistan. Now carrying the message forward from a family line five centuries long are the young Khans — Rizwan and Muazzam Ali Khan — one critic dubbed [...]

Lubna’s painting ‘Crows and Windows,’ recently won ‘Best in Show’ at the 2005 Sanctuary Art exhibit, a juried art show sponsored by the Massachusetts Audubon Society at the Moose Hill Wildlife Sanctuary Gallery, for her reflection of personal connection to nature and the meaning of ‘Sanctuary.’ Ms. Agha has been in the U.S. for more [...]

Perhaps the Asian market represents the litmus test if Twenty20 cricket is to transform itself from a novel newcomer to a bona-fide global format. The reduced-overs game has been embraced at domestic level in England, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. But a minor tournament last year in Bangladesh aside, Asia has remained slow on [...]

The construction work on the ‘Floating Kitchen’ project, which will also be called ‘Majestic Ship’, is in full swing on the shore of Sea View in Defence Housing Authority. It is officially learnt that the ‘Floating Kitchen’ is envisaged to be the world’s first stationary ship that will look like a cruise ship on which [...]

It takes 10 minutes to decide a fight between two roosters, but it requires at least 20 months to prepare a super fighting rooster. This traditional sport has no association or federation at the national level, but still there are thousands of diehard followers of this game in Rawalpindi. Like in boxing, there are different [...]

In a lucid style, the learned professor who heads the gender studies department at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, explained six phases of feminism, from liberal feminism to the echo-feminism in present times. It started in the first quarter of the 19th century when women started talking about their basic human rights. Now when their equal status [...]

A 19-year-old boy from Lahore — Omar Zafar — couldn’t bear to see his father suffer due to poor eyesight. He decided to contact eye hospitals in India. In a letter to Venu Eye Institute at Sheikh Sarai, he wrote that his family could not afford to pay the treatment bill and requested them to [...]