2005 September - 2

Hasib Rehman, a Pakistani settled in Japan … is setting up a steel plant at the total cost of US$ 100 million which includes Japanese equity. The investment is being made in response to the recent visit by the Prime Minister to Japan where he met various investors and leaders of trade and industry to [...]

The women-only buses, which started plying different city routes on Thursday, would be having male drivers and female conductors who have been already trained. These women-only buses have a pink-coloured strip all around. The Daewoo bus service has introduced one women-only bus on route No 16 while the Monolite transport company would be plying a [...]

The historic, first-ever National Women Football championship kicks off under floodlights at Jinnah Stadium, Pakistan Sports Complex, here on Friday. The opening ceremony will be followed with 7.00 p.m. kickoff of the inaugural match between Islamabad and Balochistan which are among the eight teams to compete in the seven-day championship which will also be witnessed [...]

Karachi was a much smaller city then, but its people had rich reading habits. Many of them were content with newspapers, but a lot of them would go to scores of quality bookshops to satiate their thirst for knowledge and imagination. These area libraries would normally open in the afternoon and serve their clientele till [...]

The symposia will take place at universities across Pakistan and will bring together stakeholders with an interest in the topics. Some of the meetings will be held in collaboration with major mass media groups, including Pakistan Television (PTV) and national newspapers. Awards ranging from 50,000 to 100,000 rupees (US$835 to US$1,670) will be given to [...]

Pakistani music channels are not only fighting off competition from abroad, but actually winning new audiences day by day. Today, because of these music channels, local bands and singers like Atif, Jal, Noori and Junoon are more popular than any foreign band or singer. Vast audiences from India, Canada and North America watch two of [...]

‘Project Ittehad’, which involves the laying of a very high-capacity fibre optic network spanning over 4,000km across the country. ‘When completed, the backbone will link over 77 towns and cities in Pakistan, which include Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and Faisalabad,’ Telekom, through TM International, had acquired a 78 per cent stake in Multinet in February. The [...]

Britannia-Wise Group in collaboration with the Heritage Consulting will set up 14 Britannia Resource Centres throughout Pakistan during next few months to extend support services like facilitating promising students to get admissions to international colleges and universities, helping local businessmen to collaborate with the UK business community for promotion of mutual business, immigration and visa [...]

A spectacular 8.4 per cent growth rate in the fiscal year ending in June has surprised many analysts. Among the most impressive indicators is the booming business in Karachi, the 15-million-population city located on the Arabian Sea. Motorbike sales have surged to half a million a year, with export earnings during 2005-2006 expected to reach [...]

Pop along to Pakistan’s Decorated Vehicles – part of the Pakistani Film, Media and Arts Festival at Tramway – and you’ll discover the brilliantly embellished moving canvasses that are the country’s trucks and buses. Photographer Peter Grant has recorded these eye-catching vehicles and his images, mounted alongside Billboard Art of Lollywood, create a sense of [...]