Pakistani News for the Rest of Us

The Pakistani army plucked a stranded climber from an icy ledge on one of the world’s most treacherous mountains in a daring high-altitude rescue yesterday. Two Lama helicopters hovered at almost 6,700 metres (21,980 ft) over Nanga Parbat, a Himalayan peak known as “killer mountain”, to rescue Tomaz Humar, a 36-year-old Slovene alpinist. Photographs posted …

Movie houses that once saw audiences queue for Pakistan’s home-grown “Lollywood” productions now say they need to screen films made by their once bitter rivals in glitzy Mumbai, the former Bombay, in order to survive. In the golden age of Pakistani cinema in the 1960s and 1970s, four studios in Lahore and two in Karachi …