Pakistani News for the Rest of Us

Arfa Karim, who was actually nine at the time of the honour, was last week awarded a medal in a special category for distinction in science and technology by General Pervez Musharraf. Significantly, the next day, she landed the coveted annual President’s Pride of Performance Award as well. But Maria Toorpakai Wazir has found the …

Titled Pehlee Dharkan (first heartbeat), the film festival intends to inform audiences and the wider community on what film-making in Pakistan really has to offer. The festival will screen contemporary films from the budding independent cinema movement; have a retrospective of classic Pakistani films; show short films and documentaries on political, environmental and health issues …

At the core of the exhibition is a series of collaboratively-produced paintings initiated as a creative experiment by Muhammad Imran Qureshi in 2003. He contacted the five other Pakistani painters, all alumni of the miniature department at the National College of Arts in Lahore, but now living in different cities around the world, with the …

WWF had reached a yearlong agreement with the zoo authorities for the shop which would open in a week. He said that the revenue from the shop would be spent on the conservation of nature in Pakistan because the zoo authorities were as concerned about the conservation of nature as WWF.

A resilient Pakistan came from behind to beat Olympic champions Australia 4-3 in a pulsating summit clash to claim the Rabo Trophy here today. Trailing 2-3 at the break, Pakistan outwitted the favourites with a display of aggression backed by a solid defence, where goalkeeper Salman Akbar emerged as the hero.