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When Rubab Raza hits the water at Athens on August 20, she will be making history — the 15-year-old will be the first Pakistani woman in an Olympic swimming event. And though she has no illusions of winning a medal, she’s aware that her presence alone will boost the cause of women’s swimming in Pakistan. [...]

Amir Khan is Britain’s youngest Olympian in Athens. He will also be the loneliest being the only boxer from his country to qualify for the Games. The 17-year-old lightweight faces a huge battle if he is to achieve his dream of bettering his hero Muhammad Ali’s feat, who won Olympic gold at the age of [...]

Rehman is one of the country’s top journalists and columnists. His columns on political, human rights and other issues appear regularly in English newspapers and journals. He is also associated with the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. Established in 1957, the Ramon Magsaysay Award is Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize. It honours the memory [...]

While Mahesh Bhatt plans to cast Pakistani actress Meera in his supernatural thriller Nazar, Kamal Haasan wants to make a love story spanning the two countries with a Pakistani actress in the lead. The two sides seem to be coming closer than ever before through cinema. Amidst reports that Islamabad might lift the nearly 40-year-old [...]

People gather at Karachi’s Clifton Beach on Saturday evening to witness a rare blue moon, which was last observed in Pakistan in 2001. adnan ali

Shehzad Roy won the Viewers’ Choice Award for the highly-contested best male singer category in a ceremony held on 24th of June in Lahore. Beating heavyweights Ali Azmat (Junoon), Ali Zafar, Najam Shiraz, and Fakhir – each a tough rival in his own right – Shehzad Roy bagged the award on this pleasant summer evening. [...]

Nursing bandaged, frostbitten feet, Edurne Pasaban has just joined the ranks of the international mountaineering circuit’s elite. On Monday, the slim 30-year-old from Spain became only the sixth woman to reach the the peak of K2, the world’s second highest mountain. The other five are all dead. They either died during the descent, like Britain’s [...]

JUST when talks about increasing cultural exchange between India and Pakistan is picking up pace, a Vadodara girl visited the neighbouring country to take part in a week-long leadership interaction meet with the youths of Karachi. And the sparkle in Nausheen Rahimi’s eyes, as she talks about the visit, assures she will not forget the [...]

On her first day of school in America, Subeia Ahmed sat front and center in the Framingham High School classroom, armed with an English dictionary and a neat row of freshly sharpened pencils. The 15-year-old was determined to succeed, but faced a far more difficult transition than most freshmen. She, along with her mother and [...]

Rubab Raza, from Lahore, goes to school but has still found time to compete in many international swimming matches. She has won two silver medals and one bronze in the ninth South Asian games held in Islamabad this year. The dynamic teenager has taken part in championships in India and Spain and hopes to win [...]