2005 April - 8

FOR the first time since independence Pakistan is to have its own car. The country’s only home grown automotive firm, the Adam Motor Company, say the first vehicle will be unveiled in early April and until then the car’s name is a secret. It has however been tested both at Adam’s Port Qasim plant and [...]

A Pakistani newspaper vendor in Paris with a unique selling style has won a book deal to have his life story published. Ali Akbar, who sells copies of Le Monde on the streets of the French capital’s fashionable St Germain des Pres district, arrived in the country as an illegal immigrant more than 30 years [...]

Flying from Delhi to Lahore after a first stop in India, I was surprised to see the plane full of mostly older people, both Indian and Pakistani. They were speaking excitedly in Urdu and Hindi, and in their unifying language, English, about plans to visit long-lost relatives, attend weddings and do business. “Tourism brings emotional [...]

The Pakistani Ambassador to the UAE Syed Qaiser Hussain recently attended a signing ceremony for the establishment of the USD54m National University of Pakistan in Dubai which will be located at the Dubai Academic City. Within five years the campus expects to house 3,500 students, reported Gulf News.

Printing ink, etching ink, metallic powder, acrylic paints, hand-made papers are some of the techniques Saadia Zaman use to produce her beautiful calligraphy. Her passion for Islamic calligraphy and her attention to details form the basis of her beautiful art. Saadia has produced a lot of work by commission for corporate headquarters, hotels, resorts and [...]

Though this is her first solo exhibition in Islamabad, Asma exhibited her works for the first time while being stationed in Saudi Arabia in 2000. Asma told ‘The News’ that it was a memorable experience for her as she displayed her paintings at an exhibition organised on the behest of the Crown Prince to display [...]

”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 to [...]

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. “The [...]

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 [...]