Pakistan’s First Girl Pop Band Creates Waves
A Pakistani all-girl pop band - Zeb and Haniya - is creating quite a stir with the Pakistani youth. They recently debuted their first album Chup (”Quiet” in Urdu) …
Continue reading »Ramchand Pakistani Wins Indian Hearts
Pakistani director Mehreen Jabbar’s critically acclaimed film Ramchand Pakistani is receiving accolades throughout India when it premiered at New Delhi’s Osian Cinefilm Festival. Though the film is not without its …
Continue reading »Pakistan’s Modern Art Buying Frenzy Continues
Pakistani modern art market is soaring, thanks to recent boom in economic activity, rising incomes, investor interest and a line-up of upcoming artists - plus increasing corporate and Arab patronage. …
Continue reading »Pakistani Boy Becomes World’s Youngest Cisco Expert
Irtiza Haider, a Pakistani student of class 8 from Faisalabad has been crowned to be the world’s youngest Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA). He did it by answering 80 …
Continue reading »Huge Karachi Floating Ship Makes Sailing Virtual
It’s being called Pakistan’s ‘unsinkable’, virtually floating ship which aims to give people a taste of sailing or cruising without actually going anywhere. Spread over 55,000 square feet, the ship …
Continue reading »Pakistan Opens the World’s Largest Milk Processing Plant
Swiss dairy giant Nestle has made Pakistan the home of world’s largest ever milk production plant. The 2 million-litre-a-day Punjab-based milk processing facility will rise to over three million …
Continue reading »Pakistan-born Photographer Wins Pulitzer Prize
Adrees Latif, 34, a Pakistani-by-birth photojournalist has won the Pulitzer prize for his photography for Reuters in Myanmar. Adrees’s photograph of the fatal shooting of a fellow journalist, the Japanese …
Continue reading »Pakistani Woman Skier Plans to Compete in 2010 Winter Olympics
Anmaar Habib, an 18-year old Pakistani girl trained in California, plans to represent Pakistan in the 2010 Winter Olympic games. In 2002, Anmaar Habib was the first female skier …
Continue reading »Pakistani Basketballer Aims High in an American Team
Pakistani-descent Shaan Rahi, a lanky basketball player aiming for college basketball in the United States, could become one of the few of South Asians to do so. Five years …
Continue reading »Karachi Stocks Hit New All-Time High as Hopes Soar
The Karachi Stock Exchange recorded a new all-time high amidst growing hopes among investors to pump more money into Pakistan after reportedly successful elections. The benchmark Karachi Stock Exchange index …
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