People - 15

Asad Nazir and Safia Minney, successful entrepreneurs in the fashion industry both won prestigious awards at last night’s event. Asad Nazir was awarded the title of Best Newcomer of the Year and Safia Minney won the Community Award. Asad Nazir started his company, Trends in December 2003 after he recognised a niche in the market [...]

Nargis said she wanted to make Pakistani artistes and commercial theatre popular in the West. ‘After every 15 days we will stage a new play in Toronto,’ she said. She said that she would take a delegation of Pakistani artistes to Canada. She said that there were many Pakistani film and TV artistes living in [...]

Pakistan cricket team’s most celebrated fan, Abdul Jalil, won hearts through his message of love at the steel city that is preparing to host the third India-Pakistan One Day International (ODI) Saturday. A resident of Sialkot, Jalil first came to India March 7 for the first Test match at Mohali. He went on to cheer [...]

Usman Sarfraz, a resident of Lahore has gone ahead and done just that. He has purchased a car registration number, LZL-1, for Rs 400,000 at an auction organised by the Excise and Taxation Department. The department auctioned popular car registration numbers, 1 to 9, 10 to 99, 100, 111, 222, 333, 444, 555, 666, 777, [...]

The man chosen to drive the first bus linking divided Kashmir says his selection for the job was a blessing from God and he is thrilled to be playing a part in history. Raja Pervez Khan, from Azad Kashmir, says he has no long-lost relatives on the Indian side, but he is proud to be [...]

Flying from Delhi to Lahore after a first stop in India, I was surprised to see the plane full of mostly older people, both Indian and Pakistani. They were speaking excitedly in Urdu and Hindi, and in their unifying language, English, about plans to visit long-lost relatives, attend weddings and do business. “Tourism brings emotional [...]

Printing ink, etching ink, metallic powder, acrylic paints, hand-made papers are some of the techniques Saadia Zaman use to produce her beautiful calligraphy. Her passion for Islamic calligraphy and her attention to details form the basis of her beautiful art. Saadia has produced a lot of work by commission for corporate headquarters, hotels, resorts and [...]

Arfa Karim of Multan has made the nation proud by becoming the youngest ‘Microsoft Certified Professional’ (MCP) in the country, at the age of nine years, and one of only a few certified professionals in the world who are below the age of ten years. The talented child was recently honoured for her proud achievements [...]

The cultural troupe prefaced their performance with a dance based on a song by the national poet of Bangladesh, Kazi Nazrul Islam. They also performed folk dances and sang songs. Gazi Abdul Hakim mesmerized the audience with a brilliant flute recital. Using three types of flute, he played Raag Bhopali and a couple of folk [...]

A novel hailed as finding “shimmering love” among the bigotries and injustices of the Asian area of an English town yesterday won a share of a £16,000 international literary prize. Maps for Lost Lovers, which took Nadeem Aslam 11 years to write, was declared in San Francisco as joint winner of the annual Kiriyama award, [...]