2005 September - 5

Arfa Karim, the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional, was awarded a gold medal in a reception hosted by Pakistani IT professionals in Dubai. The 10 year old has recently received the Fatimah Jinnah Gold Medal in Science and Technology and the Salaam Pakistan Youth Award 2005. The smart 6th grade student revealed her plans study [...]

There was a time when there were not many flower shops in Pakistan and the people would ask the mali working in the garden next door to make a small bouquet. However, times have changed since. Most flowers come from Punjab town of Pattoki and include roses, lilies, irises, tuberoses, daffodils and gladiolas. A few [...]

Unicef Pakistan has appointed Strings – one of the leading Pakistani pop groups, as national ambassadors for HIV/Aids. Strings will join Unicef ambassadors around the world from the entertainment and sports fields to combat HIV/Aids. The group’s stars believed that their music could be both a means of social commentary and form of self expression. [...]

The parliament of Pakistan includes 21.3% women, placing it at a highly respectable rank of 40, higher than many western countries. The ranking is helped in no small measure by a law in 2002, under which 60 of the 342 seats in the national assembly (17%) are to be allocated to women. Pakistan is the [...]

The London-Sydney Friendship motor rally 2005 left for Islamabad after an overnight stopover here on Sunday. Fifteen vehicles, including 12 vintage 1970 models of Jaguar, Mercedes, Pontiac, Porsche and Chevrolet, entered the Pakistan leg of the world tour on Saturday evening from the Iranian border town of Taftan. Thirty-five people were riding the vehicles. The [...]

Pakistan emerged as new boxing powerhouse of the continent when their boxers grabbed three gold and a silver medal in the 23rd Asian Boxing Championship, also lifting the team trophy, on Sunday evening at Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. It was a rare moment in the history of Pakistan boxing when three pugilists — [...]

The premise was simple: could a Gora (white man) become a Pakistani? Over 13 weeks, Fulton, a 27-year-old former public schoolboy, travelled the country to find out. He sampled Pakistan’s many delights – moseying through the tribal areas, dancing at slick Karachi parties, speaking bad Urdu and arguing with his electricity company. It turns out [...]

This was no ordinary pedicure or spa procedure she was having done. It was the ancient art of henna tattooing — sometimes known as Mehndi — in which a natural dye is used to decorate the skin with intricate designs. “It’s very popular in my home,” said owner Muhammad Aslam, a native of Pakistan. “And [...]

Muhammad Asim of Pakistan was nominated by Peregrine Fund and chosen by a Walt Disney World panel for one of the six global awards. The programme was created to support the efforts by local residents. In 2000, biologists were trying to determine the cause of a decline in vulture population in South Asia. After 9/11, [...]