Pakistani News for the Rest of Us

It took Amir Khan just one minute 39 seconds to underline what we already knew, that he is the most exciting talent to arrive in British boxing for years. Here in an area of the country where the Muslim way of life is woven tightly into the culture, a group of Asian Khan fans carried …

Arfa, a promising software programmer from Faisalabad, Pakistan, is believed to be the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional in the world. The designation, given to outside experts who prove their ability to work with Microsoft technologies, has also been achieved by some teenagers. She made an impression through a combination of charm, flattery and boldness …

Harvinder Singh of Planet M says, ‘‘Pakistani music cassettes sell like hot cakes and sometimes we get out of stock as well. These days Ali Zafar is on everybody’s lips and still one can see the craze for Pakistani band Junoon.’’ For ghazal lovers the craze is for Tahira, Iqbal Bano and Abida Parveen. …

For the first time thalassaemic patients have been treated with their own blood stem cells reducing not only their blood transfusion frequency but also lowering their iron overload significantly for the quality of their life, doctors claimed. Dr Ilham, the sole inventor of the TriStem Technology, has also applied her process of retrodifferentiation in …

India and Pakistan will extend their sporting rivalry to the racetrack when they clash in the “World Cup of motor sport” - the A1 Grand Prix - in Britain in September. The 12 races will be staged in various locations around the world with the last being run in Beijing April 3, 2006. Points will …

Indus Motor said the new Toyota ATLIS is the first locally manufactured vehicle with catalytic converter technology, which ensures cleaner exhaust emissions protecting the environment. ATLIS has an aluminium alloy 1800cc Twin Cam, VVT-I (Variable Valve Timing - Intelligent) engine, combining power with fuel efficiency. The high tech LED type rear combination of lights that …

Zahoor Khan, a resident of Megowal village, was digging earth for some construction work outside the village when the tractor’s blades touched an earthen pot deep under the soil. With the brushing, the pot broke but led tractor driver Imran to the discovery of some metallic things. The next moment he was surprised to see …

Zala Ejaz doesn’t write poems if her father gives an idea because she thinks that she has enough ideas of her own. The class five student at the Siddeeq Public School has so far written around 50 poems out of which the National Book Foundation published 35 in February. When Zala was eight-year-old, she was …

The project, Pakistan’s first, and the biggest ever sports investment in the country by a foreign company, envisages state of the art sports facilities like training and lodging academies in football, cricket, golf and tennis besides constructing stadia and courses for the various sports. Founder of cricket in the UAE and leading sports patron and …

Chinese dentists have been a part of Karachi’s landscape much before the inception of Pakistan itself. Immigrants from China settled in Karachi, set up dental clinics and made a name for themselves, particularly among the low-income, residents of the city. These Chinese immigrants came to Karachi sometime in the 1940s after having traveled the length …

Pakistan has completed the 20th volume of the world’s most comprehensive dictionary of the Urdu language, officials of the Urdu Diction Board of Pakistan said here Wednesday. The Board plans to publish 22 volumes containing 300,000 words, give or take a few hundred words. The Board has modelled its flagship dictionary on the Greater …

Food, not ambience, is the focus at Lasani, though there are red kilims — traditional woven rugs on the walls, and a few pieces of handicraft decorating the place. Jilani, a graduate in business management from the University of Los Angeles in the US, intends to provide “quality Mughlai food, superb taste and good service”. …

They call it the “game of kings” but surely only the most courageous sovereign would dare to brave the annual polo tournament in Pakistan’s northern mountains. Every year the teams from Gilgit and Chitral meet mid-way at Shandur, a spectacular natural arena ringed by snow-sprinkled peaks that is the world’s highest polo ground. The best …

Pakistan is rich in minerals and offers: Ruby, emerald, tourmaline, garnet (pyrope, almandine, rhodolite, demantoid, spessartite, and hessonite), topaz, peridot, aquamarine, spinel, pargasite, diopside, moonstone, serpentine jade, epidote, pink beryl (morganite), purple beryl, sphene, zoisite, lapis lazuli, turquoise, kunzite and almost all known varieties of quartz. One encouraging sign is that efforts are underway to …