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Edhi Sahib is indeed an oddity. He has won many national and international awards for his humanitarian work amongst the poor and destitute not only in Pakistan but far beyond. He must have been considered for the Nobel Prize by now, and if not, surely he is being overlooked. He is a simple man with [...]

Pakistan’s film industry has offered to take part in an entertainment extravaganza conducted by Bollywood to raise money for the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund to help tsunami victims. The offer was made to Bollywood director Mahesh Bhatt, who recently completed the film Nazar, an Indo-Pak venture with Pakistani star Meera playing the female lead. The [...]

Bajwa returns to the operating room today at Wilson to implant the artificial disc, known as Charite, in a fourth patient who traveled around the world for the procedure. The patient is a native of Bajwa’s homeland, Pakistan. There, the Southern New York Neurosurgical Group physician has become somewhat of a medical celebrity. After a [...]

The vision is lofty – to make domestic cricket a popular spectator sport in Pakistan. Plenty of right noises were made at the press conference: mission statements, re-branding, and consumer-reaction models were bandied about with the same liberal abandon Pakistani bowlers display towards no-balls. Regional teams have been renamed – Peshawar become the Panthers, Hyderabad [...]

The Banker Magazine of London, a subsidiary of Financial Times has declared Dr. Ishrat Husain as Central Bank Governor of the year for Asia. This is for the first time in the history of Pakistan that any Governor of State Bank has won this prestigious award. The Banker has honoured Dr. Ishrat “for his leadership [...]

It has been almost a month since Pooja Bhatt ‘s film Rog was premiered at the Kara film festival in Pakistan. However, for the actress-turned filmmaker and daughter of renowned filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt , the “sweet” experience still lingers in her memory. With the screening of her film Rog, which released all over India on [...]

Pakistan would participate in the Grand Prix international A One car racing competition for first time. Managing Director Pakistan A One team Salik Hussain told Geo TV that the event will be held in London during September and 25 countries will participare it. He informed that Pakistan driver is experied and I [sic] practicing in [...]

This would be a unique opportunity of interaction for talented students and young scientists of the country with 40 Nobel laureates and about 600 fellow participants from over 30 countries in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Medicine. The facility would be provided only to Pakistani nationals, studying or working in public and private [...]

The News staffer and young journalist Zulfiqar Shah has won European Commission’s prestigious ‘Lorenzo Natali Prize’ for the year 2004. His feature story on honour killings ‘Till Death Do Us Part’ published in November 2003 has been ranked one of the best three articles of Asia Pacific region by a Paris-based Grand Jury. The Prize [...]

Cardiff resident Zakia Ahmed also received an MBE for work in her community. Over the last 30 years, she has set up the Pakistani Women’s Association, the Pakistan Educational and Cultural Association and the Asian Cultural Association. She has helped hundreds of women from ethnic minorities to improve their English, learn new skills, set up [...]