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This is no peacenik’s enthusiasm. Facts speak for themselves. Last month, the Indian high commission issued over 10,000 visas to Pakistanis coming to India. On an average, the Pakistani high commission in New Delhi issues 8,000 visas every month. Over 350 Pakistanis have descended on the city to attend a four-day convention beginning Friday evening [...]

A 12-member South Korean team of archaeologists has discovered more than 200 remains, including one stupa of the Buddha civilisation here in Jaulian near Taxila. The Jaulian monastery is located atop the hill some 300 feet high, about 6 kms north-east of the Taxila Museum. After these remarkable discoveries, the Jaulian-II is confirmed as preceding [...]

The excavations carried out at Mehrgarh have proved that the site represents a highly developed civilization that existed there until around 8,000 years ago, according to a French archaeologist. The mission has been doing exploratory work in Balochistan for nearly three-and-a-half decades. He said that Mehrgarh and its associated sites provided irrevocable evidence of considerable [...]

It is only a bus, but it gives a tired-looking peace process a burst of life. AT LAST, what looks like a breakthrough in the long quest for peace by India and Pakistan. Optimists believe that the opening of the roads linking the two halves of Kashmir could be the bond that keeps the peace. [...]

The families of Wajahat Ahmed and Tayaba Sharif are from Pakistan, but Tayaba is a young woman reared in a traditional home in Saudi Arabia. In 1997, Wajahat came to Arizona from Karachi, Pakistan, to study electrical engineering at Arizona State University. In the fall of 2002, he traveled to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, during the [...]

Karachi – 39-k block 6 – P.E.C.H.S. – Sometimes you will see a white light glowing at night.? Also people have reported seeing a very pale women wearing a white dress walk around for about a minute then disappear at about 3:00 in the morning, it has also been said that this lady had been [...]

Defying a chilly night, a bitter drizzle and the reprimands of the mullahs, Pakistanis broke loose this weekend in a boisterous annual rite of spring: Grown men lost sight of everything but chasing kites in the sky, children stayed up until dawn, women reveled on roofs, dressed in the color of mustard blossoms. Even the [...]

Preparations for Basant reached their zenith in Lahore on Friday, as hundreds of thousands of people from outstation and abroad have reached here for the 24-hour festivities beginning on Saturday night. Shops selling kites and twine were drawing great rush of people, who bought the required stocks despite the high prices. There was a great [...]

Work on ferry service between Karachi and Muscat is in progress and the service will be started in the near future. He said Karachi-Mumbai ferry service could be started with the help of private sector after the success of the ongoing dialogue between India and Pakistan. “We can launch Karachi-Muscat ferry service till the time [...]

Five million people are expected to throng Lahore next weekend for Basant, the spring festival of Hindu origin that has become Muslim-majority Pakistan’s most riotous street party. Glamorous stars of Lollywood (as the local film industry is known), wealthy business families and tens of thousands of the city’s poor will cram on to rooftops to [...]