Pakistani News for the Rest of Us

When Nur Ali, Pakistan’s first professional racing driver, takes part in next month’s inaugural A1 GP series in Britain, a place on the podium is not his only mission. “I want to drive for Pakistan and for its youth,” said Texas-based Ali. Driving was Ali’s childhood passion and he used to navigate for his father …

A Pakistani student, Sonia, has won the top honours in the US by winning a US poem competition on water conservation. Sonia, a fifth grade student, participated in a contest across 60 schools of New York. She was awarded the president medal, Pride of Performance and Excellence Award for her creative work.

The ceasefire between India and Pakistan in Kashmir has produced an unexpected beneficiary - the world’s largest goat. The markhor, a mountain goat that stands almost 6ft tall at the shoulder and can weigh 17 stone, was thought to be extinct in Indian-held Kashmir. Markhor are considered critically endangered, but other populations have survived in …

But at Overland Park’s three-month-old Kababesh Grill in the Highland Plaza shopping strip, the cuisines of Pakistan and India coexist happily on the same menu. There aren’t a lot of Pakistani dishes, says co-owner Joe Hemayoun, a native of Lahore, Pakistan (as is his partner and chef, Zubir Sheh). But the handful of regional dishes …