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Rahman, 28, along with Alexander Asseily, 29, set out to take advantage of that fact by improving upon a vital cellphone accessory that doesn’t get much attention: the headset. The pair founded Aliph, a Brisbane, California-based audio and speech technology company, which just released its first product. Called Jawbone, the product is a high-tech headset [...]

Members of a delegation of Indian Sindhi writers visited their ancestral towns of Daro and Chuhar Jamali on Monday. In Daro, they attended the launching ceremony of Adab ja Sarchashma (Resources of literature) by critic Yousuf Sindhi, Aalami Ajaibat (Wonders of the world) by travel writer Abdul Hayee Palijo and a periodical Jati. The ceremony [...]

By night, Iqbal Hussain moves shyly among the crowds of customers who flock to his restaurant to dine in the shadow of the magnificent sandstone minarets of Lahore’s Badshahi Mosque. By day, Hussain takes his pencils and paintbrushes into the narrow, filthy streets of the Heera Mandi, Lahore’s red light district. It is on the [...]

Doctors have found two pairs of scissors and a piece of paper in the lungs of a woman who claims she never underwent any surgery in her life. For the last 11 years, Sharifaan Bibi had been feeling as if something was eating into her lungs. She got treatment from several doctors but all went [...]

A crowd of about 400 girls and boys went wild chanting the band’s name as the charismatic pair from Pakistan led them to the land of musical bliss. This was the scene on Thursday evening at the Gargi College fest, where Strings gave a rousing performance. As soon as the concert began, the barricades were [...]

Farrukh Ashraf repaired the shoes with 2½-inch heels worn by the precision dance troupe, which finished a 37-performance run of “Radio City Christmas Spectacular” here last week. “The work was not that hard; it’s just so many of them at one time,” Ashraf said recently while gluing rubber-sole protectors to 24 pairs of T-strap leather [...]

THE Pakistan Society of Harrow are setting up a Matrimonial Agency to help eligible Asians in Harrow to meet their ideal partner. The society based in Northolt Road has been going for two years and their aims are to look after the interests of the Pakistani community by catering for their cultural, social, educational and [...]

Born in Rawalpindi, I completed my masters in information technology. After my education I worked as manager IT in a private company. Working with the private company for one year gave me enough experience about market trends in IT. With the financial assistance of my father, who works as consultant with a firm, I established [...]

Amid a thaw in relations between Pakistan and India, two leading Indian movie stars on Saturday said actors and directors from the two countries should jointly produce films. Indian films are immensely popular in Pakistan, and “Dhoop” – starring Om Puri – was screened Friday night at the opening of the 10-day Kara Film Festival [...]

WORLD-record goalscorer Sohail Abbas continued his amazing run as hosts Pakistan came from behind to down New Zealand for a second consecutive win in the men’s Champions Trophy hockey today. The Netherlands and Spain also recorded their second wins on day two of the elite six-nation tournament to set up a three-way tie at the [...]