Pakistani News for the Rest of Us

‘‘Way back in 1972, I spent six months in Mumbai, often sleeping on the footpath,’’ says Mohammed Farooq Memon Fariya. The burly 52-year-old is the nazim or town administrator of Saddar in Karachi. For six months, Fariya roamed the streets, ate roadside food from Pydhonie stalls and did odd jobs. Finally, Fariya got permission …

The rally was held to raise money for students in Pakistan. When Col. Joe Sokol, 75th Air Base Wing vice commander, who recently returned from a deployment there, learned about their education problems, he knew who he could turn to get the students the help they needed. “The students were very happy,” he said. …

For the first time Pakistan’s foreign trade is expected to hit $33 billion mark in the current financial year. In comparison with financial year 2003-04 the foreign trade of the country in 2004-05 is likely to expand by 5.3 billion dollars. In 2003-04 the total foreign trade of Pakistan amounted to 27.91 billion dollars. Unprecedented …