Pakistan-India Love Match Captivates South Asians Across the Border
Pakistan’s Shoaib Malik and Indian Sania Mirza finally got married after a long soap opera of desi twists and turns which brought the two nations even closer — to argue …
Continue reading »Pakistani Philanthropist Wins 2009 UN Prize for Non-Violence
Dr Abul Sattar Edhi of the Edhi Foundation in Karachi has been awarded the 2009 United Nations Mananjeet Singh Prize for Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence in recognition of his …
Continue reading »Pakistani Art Scene Thrives With Emerging New Talent
Art in Pakistan continues to inspire and produce more new and aspiring artists, despite the country facing tough times. The main centres of new art in Pakistan are its two …
Continue reading »Pakistani Guitar School a Hit Among Rock’n'Roll Youth
As Pakistani rock’n’ roll music begins to heat up, Pakistan’s youth have taken upon themselves to teach and learn to play the guitar in bigger numbers than ever - with …
Continue reading »Young Pakistani Group Sets Example by Picking Up Garbage
An almost revolutionary group of middle-class, well-to-do young Lahoris has had enough, so they have set an example by picking up garbage themselves every Sunday. “The rich don’t care, …
Continue reading »Pakistani Boy Genius Sets A-Levels World Record
Ali Moeen Nawazish - An 18-year old wiz-kid from Rawalpindi, wanted to get into Cambridge, so he sat in seven A-Levels exams in just one year - and secured 22 …
Continue reading »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 »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 »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 …
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