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A traveling exhibition titled ‘Fading Lines’, featuring paintings, drawings, printings, videos, textiles and bookmaking by five Australian artists will open at National College of Arts (NCA) on Thursday (January 27). The exhibition, sponsored by the Australian embassy, has arrived from Islamabad, where it was held in Nomad Gallery. At NCA, the exhibition will be held [...]

FOR a Karachi-born nuclear physicist, Pervez Hoodbhoy (54) fits no stereotype. Not surprising, therefore, that Hoodbhoy told Newsline he has no time to take in Bollywood movies. The professor from the Quaid-e-Azam University at Islamabad has spent the last two years bent over his laptop, editing precious footage on Kashmir for a 45-minute documentary titled [...]

Wasay is an assistant professor at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan. He has led efforts to improve public health through programs to decrease rabies and tetanus and to increase support for stroke and multiple sclerosis. Wasay has established a training program for Pakistani neurologists similar to the Palatucci Advocacy Leadership Forum. “The greatest [...]

The Higher Education Commission (HEC), pursuing its vision of becoming on effective e-government organisation, has introduced online job application system. All HEC jobs are advertised on the commission’s website http://www.hec.gov.pk. Prospective candidates can be informed automatically of new jobs announcement by subscribing to the HEC website updates, which are being updated day to day. Once [...]

Zeshan Ahmed Malik who is a student of Law and son of a prominent Judge Khadim Hussian Malik has translated it from English into Urdu. Renowned Professor of English from NUML University, Sajad Haider Malik, has written a very catchy and comprehensive foreword of the book. Professor Razi Abidi of the same University from Urdu [...]

Five Pakistani students qualified for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), pre-college science competition, by winning the First National Science Olympiad at the National Library Auditorium on Thursday. The winners will be participating in the Intel International Olympiad in Arizona from May 9 to 15. The Olympiad was titled ‘The masterminds of the [...]

Two major Pakistani management institutes are already in touch with IIM-Lucknow in this connection. In fact, the director general of the National University of Science and Technology (NUST), a premier management institute in Rawalpindi, has expressed his desire to visit IIM-Lucknow. Efforts in this direction were initiated during the meetings of the Association of Management [...]

A large number of children, accompanied by their parents, visited the day-long Nature Carnival, that was organized by a non-governmental organization, the World wide Fund for Nature (WWF) at the PAF Museum on Sunday. Over 50 schools participated in the activity, where the students had prepared various three-dimensional models based on five themes – Birds [...]

Two years ago Arooj Aftab was a middle-class Pakistani teenager living her life according to plan: She was working studiously under the watchful gaze of her parents to finish a two-year advanced-level degree in math and economics, and planning a sensible career in accounting. At the same time, Aftab was pursuing an interest that was [...]

Zuhra Nafees drinks in the sights and sounds of Peshawar’s riotous marketplace with newfound enthusiasm. A year ago the grate of a burqa separated her from the outside world. Today the late 20-something is clad in the traditional Muslim chador, the long cloth that covers her body from head to toe, but leaves her face [...]