2006 February - 2

Pakistan became the second country after Brazil to be picked up for the coveted trophy following a stiff competition with other contenders, including India. The GSM Association, a global trade association representing more than 680 mobile operators, awarded Pakistan its prestigious Government Leadership Award-2006 on Monday. The congress was being attended by mobile industry CEOs [...]

Today it seems very easy to talk about the social and political resistance and showing courage against the traditions and traditional outdated thoughts. The city literary circles are observing 137th death anniversary of Great Urdu Poet Mirza Ghalib who had the gift of the gab in giving a total creative tour of Urdu poetry that [...]

Lollywood ladies and gentlemen are also trying to follow the trend. Meera has received bouquets from Pakistan and across the border and will get a costly Mercedes car from a ‘close friend’ as a gracious Valentine’s Day gift, sources told Daily Times. Red will be the order of the day. Fashion designers and beauticians have [...]

Bank profits have risen sharply over the last three years. Fiscal 2004 saw record profits. Profits were up a massive 105 percent in nine months to September, 2005. The boost in the banks’ market capitalisation was 200 per cent. Banks, both foreign and domestic, are outperforming all financial sectors, as Pakistani economy moves on a [...]

Pakistan has often hit the headlines for gross gender violations like honour killings and gang rapes. But that is not the entire picture. NDTV met some women who are breaking the glass ceiling, pushing boundaries in the corporate sector in Pakistan. Musharraf Hai has been heading the multinational, Unilever Pakistan for more than four years [...]

Toyota Motor Corp will start local production and sales of its IMV global strategic vehicle in Pakistan as early as this year, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported, citing company President Katsuaki Watanabe. The business daily said Pakistan will be the 10th country in which the world’s second-largest automaker has set up a manufacturing base for [...]

It is also said that the PIB Colony is the only locality in the metropolis that has a legally notified bus stop. The old residents of the area said that 30 to 35 years ago there used to a big market of old books near the bus stop frequented by avid readers o the city. [...]

While her school is simple – a tent and chalkboard – the smile it brings to the children attending is symbolic of a quiet revolution. Like Niaz, many girls from this valley near the quake’s epicenter used to spend afternoons working the fields, just as their mothers did before them. Cycles of poverty combined with [...]

Broadband Satellite Hub would provide low-cost and high reliability high speed satellite connectivity throughout the country, with a capacity of 18Mbps and several unique features the Hub will provide enterprise users in the country with true Broadband over satellite for the first time. Comstar ISA Ltd, the leading satellite service provider in Pakistan and the [...]

Ali’s family is one of the many divided families who haven’t seen each other for decades. “I probably won’t even be able to recognize or identify many of the children who were born during this long dissociation,” Ali says. Mohammad Ali, his wife and two teenage sons are excited to be among the historic passengers [...]