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Half a world away from her close-knit family and her home in Karachi, Pakistan, Tayyaba Rizvi has found herself warmly welcomed into the busy household of her new ‘mom,’ Bonnie Schutts, and new Kayla, age 11. Rizvi finds Dunn County’s rural landscape and comparatively low population density a marked contrast to the very crowded city [...]

A group of children, along with their families and friends, have launched an organisation by the name of Volunteer Kids (VK) to help out earthquake victim children. VK wants every child to donate a new or used schoolbag containing a number of items in it. These can include colouring pencils or chalks, colouring book or [...]

Perhaps Sindh Madressatul Islam, the Alma Mater of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, is the only school that has teachers of the language, the business community, mostly Gujarati speaking, had played a vital role and even after the creation of the country, they had made tremendous efforts to establish the new country along sound financial lines. [...]

It’s probably not all that remarkable that a young American went to Pakistan and found fascinating the traditions that define daily life there, from the calls to prayer to the garishly decorated transport trucks. This was the experience of Chiara Angela Kovarik, a Mendota Heights teenager who with her parents spent a month in Pakistan [...]

The unique videoconference that was held among the students from Pakistan, US and Egypt gave a neat demonstration of what the students from different countries were thinking this time around when the ever-changing world today is buzzing with the controversy of clash of civilization. Pakistani students sitting right in Islamabad exchanged views with the students [...]

Hundreds of school-goers did not attend their classes on Monday and went to Karachi’s polluted beach instead to literally clear the officially designated marine turtle nesting sites. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Pakistan, as part of its marine turtle conservation initiative in the area, organised a beach cleaning activity for the schools at [...]

The Oxford University Press hosted an incisive and analytical talk, titled, “So you want to write Urdu poetry? A vocal dissection of Urdu verse”. The speaker was Dr Nomanul Haq, Resident Scholar at the American Institute of Pakistan Studies and a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Sounding an optimistic note, he said, “Despite [...]

As a part of the three week-long trip to India, a 32-member delegation from Pakistan comprising of artists, intellectuals, academicians, politicians, journalists and musicians arrived in Bangalore recently. The Sindhis have a rich tradition of Sufi music, which is part of their vibrant culture. Sindhis with a population of over four crores in Pakistan are [...]

The symposia will take place at universities across Pakistan and will bring together stakeholders with an interest in the topics. Some of the meetings will be held in collaboration with major mass media groups, including Pakistan Television (PTV) and national newspapers. Awards ranging from 50,000 to 100,000 rupees (US$835 to US$1,670) will be given to [...]

More than two-dozen languages of Indian-Aryan, Iranian, Tibetan and Nooristani origins are spoken in the NWFP and the Northern Areas, most of which do not have a script. Henrik Lijegran, a research consultant at the Frontier Language Institute (FLI) told Daily Times about his institute’s efforts to preserve and promote the mother tongues of various [...]