People - 14

The Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) credential is for technology professionals who have the skills to successfully implement a Microsoft product or technology as part of a business solution. At just 9 years old, Arfa Karim Randhawa , of Faisalabad, Pakistan, is one of the youngest MCPs in the world. She recently received her credentials from [...]

Sheikha Mohammad Hamoud Alhamdi, a 21-year-old from UAE, who has married a local of Karak and considers Pakistanis loving and caring, is learning Pashto to share Arabic folktales and stories with her in-laws. Ms Alhamdi is hopeful she would get a Pakistani citizenship like two Indian girls before her, a few months ago. “I am [...]

The lead vocalist of Junoon – a radical rock band of the last decade, Ali Azmat, has launched his first solo album titled ‘Social Circus’. The album is released by Sadaf Stereo. Describing his album’s theme, he said it was a personal expression — a kind in which philosophical moods and thematically expressed events of [...]

Lubna’s painting ‘Crows and Windows,’ recently won ‘Best in Show’ at the 2005 Sanctuary Art exhibit, a juried art show sponsored by the Massachusetts Audubon Society at the Moose Hill Wildlife Sanctuary Gallery, for her reflection of personal connection to nature and the meaning of ‘Sanctuary.’ Ms. Agha has been in the U.S. for more [...]

In a lucid style, the learned professor who heads the gender studies department at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, explained six phases of feminism, from liberal feminism to the echo-feminism in present times. It started in the first quarter of the 19th century when women started talking about their basic human rights. Now when their equal status [...]

A 19-year-old boy from Lahore — Omar Zafar — couldn’t bear to see his father suffer due to poor eyesight. He decided to contact eye hospitals in India. In a letter to Venu Eye Institute at Sheikh Sarai, he wrote that his family could not afford to pay the treatment bill and requested them to [...]

Paris-based Pakistani fashion Guru Mehmood Bhatti and his stunning French models dazzled the capital audience at the grand gala Fashion Extravaganza titled “Zephyr Collection”. The evening started with a short documentary based on the activities of Ummed-e-Noor for the welfare of special children. The alluring apparels along with the lido dance performance and lilting songs [...]

The blustering bonhomie on both sides of the Radcliff line notwithstanding the friendly hand being extended by Ms Huma Parveen, a Pakistani national, to her Indian jail inmates in learning cutting and tailoring has never caught the attention of media. Though women barracks are crowded, the jail authorities have accommodated all 125 women convicts and [...]

The General Presidency of Youth Welfare has fielded a Pakistani expatriate in the war against terrorism. His style of spreading the message is simple. He moves around in military fatigues to symbolize his campaign against terror. Armed with messages of support from top government officials and escorted by police, Bakhsh becomes an instant draw wherever [...]

Four years ago Aliya Ashid made her way from Pakistan to Bhopal. Her journey across the border was stemmed in a single objective – her passion for music. For this visually challenged girl Dhrupad music was the only guiding light and her hosts, a Jain family, became her guides in the journey. For this girl [...]