Pakistani News for the Rest of Us

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 …

Shaheen Air International (SAI), Pakistan’s private airline will soon launch a new flight for Lahore from Doha. SAI commenced its operations in Pakistan in 1993 under the aegis of Shaheen Foundation, a welfare trust of Pakistan Air Force (PAF) personnel. SAI is the first private carrier of Pakistan which was honoured with the title of …