Pakistani News for the Rest of Us

The picture of founder of Pakistan Mohammad Ali Jinnah has been printed first time distinctly and size of the picture has also been enlarged. On the back of the currency a picture of Mohenjodaro, a historical place, located in interior Sindh, has been printed. The signature of governor SBP has been printed first time in …

Now a visitor will have to be prepared to endure a permanent sound of kat-a-kat, kat-a-kat, kat-a-kat and chip-chop chip-chop. People come here to have delicious Biryani and Haleem, and also get their share of chicken and lamb rotating on radiant skewers. Most shopkeepers of Burnes Road are happy and hope for brighter business prospects. …

The district government will bear all the education expenses of a seven-year-old ‘genius’ Asad Ullah Qayyum, including his lodging and boarding. The boy, who belongs to Kanjrur village of Shakargarh Tehsil, would be sent to Aitchison College for his better education. Asad Ullah, who can reportedly deliver speeches on Seerat-un-Nabi in 12 languages, has been …

Starting business in India takes nearly three months compared to just 5 days in US, 41 days in China and less than a months time in Pakistan, according to World Bank’s report ‘Doing Business in 2005′. While India fared better than Brazil, where opening a business was said to take as many as 152 days, …

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 …

Seeking to tap this expertise from a nation that is a world powerhouse in the sport, Greece’s fledgling cricketers are now sending feelers to the Athens-based Pakistani community. But a way out of this deadlock could lie in a handful of open spaces around Athens where hundreds of Pakistanis — part of a 30,000-strong community …

Pakistan is going gaga over a ten-year-old girl with a wholesome face. Last week, she was the recipient of Fatima Jinnah Medal, easily the youngest of the 60 women and four men, awarded for work that has impacted the status of women in Pakistan. Arfa is the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), which per …

A1 Team Pakistan announces Racing Team and New Driver. Super Nova is one of the world’s most successful racing teams with a staggering history of wins. It has been responsible for developing world class stars such as Juan Pablo Montoya and Mark Webber. A1 Team Pakistan is also proud to announce another driver, Adam …

Feroze Khan believes his future was already determined when his homeless mother gave birth to him on a car porch. More than half a century later, he has launched Pakistan’s first home-grown automobile. It’s been a long road for the boy from a poor Karachi neighbourhood whose life-long fascination with engines, gears and wheels has …

North Nazimabad Town enjoys the reputation of being the most literate town of the country, as out of its 700,000 population more than 90 percent are educated and compared with other towns of Karachi it is well developed. In the early Sixties when Karachi was the capital of Pakistan, North Nazimabad was initially selected for …

The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) has achieved the status of fastest growing IT organisation by virtue of adopting most modern technology and managed to find significant a place among top 50 e-passport technology supplier companies of the world. There are 32 companies from Europe, 11 from USA, four from UK, one from Japan …

The Pakistan chapter of the UK-based international NGO, Oxfam, has recently begun broadcasting a radio series aimed at raising public awareness of honour killings. Oxfam aims to reduce social acceptance of such killings through a six-year campaign aiming at significantly reducing the number of women killed under the banner of ‘honour’. The twenty-minute programme …

By nominating renowned Sindhi writer and intellectual Sobho Gayan Chandani for Kamal-e-Funn Award 2004, the Pakistan Academy of Letters has taken the initiative to recognise the lifetime literary achievement of a regional language writer for the first time and set an example of promoting the spirit of literary harmony between all regional languages of Pakistan. …