Pakistani News for the Rest of Us

The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) have launched a ground breaking campaign using cricket to focus on girls’ right to education and sports as part of the regional “Fair Play for Girls” initiative. The programme in Pakistan is aimed at helping young women to start playing cricket, in the …

Pop music is rapidly taking over the Pakistani music scene, despite the moral brigade and diktats of the clergy. “Pop, along with soft rock, is growing in popularity. Already, one private channel - Indus Music - is solely devoted to playing pop music 24 hours a day. There are over 80 FM channels spread all …

Some amateur archaeologists exploring the fast vanishing traces of ancient Sindh have failed to find a mountain spring that was once discovered by British officials before partition of the subcontinent in the city’s western hills that, at that time, was part of an area called Deh Aurangi or Audangi, now spelt as Orangi. In their …

More than 4.7 million subscribers of (PTCL) would avail a messaging service, launched recently by the company countrywide, and now they can send and receive SMS to other landline and U-Fone users. The PTCL messaging service is being provided to fixed phone line to other similar lines, U-Fone to PTCL landline and vice versa, they …