Pakistani News for the Rest of Us

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 …

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 …