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The Pakistani-American community Saturday celebrated the opening of a new Pakistani Consulate in Chicago. Jehangir Karamat, Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States, and Mayor Daley were on hand to inaugurate the offices at 333 N. Michigan. The consulate will serve Pakistanis in six Midwestern states, home to 60,000 to 100,000 Pakistanis, said Consul Aitzaz Ahmed. [...]

Heavy snowfall on Islamabad’s Margalla Hills, Abbottabad, Northern Areas and Azad Kashmir kept people indoors. Traffic remained suspended in some areas of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and the Northern Areas (NA), while flights to NAs were also disrupted due to rains and snowfall. Scattered rain was had been forecast in Balochistan on Sunday, [...]

The Sindh Wildlife Department is launching a massive rescue and relocation operation on Friday for the Indus dolphins that strayed into different canals during monsoon. According to sources, at least 12 such dolphins have been located after getting stranded in different canals originating from Sukkur Barrage. According to sources, the dolphins usually stray into various [...]

Work on building five multi-purpose, international-standard indoor gymnasiums, each especially designed for boxing, is now almost simultaneously in progress across the country after the ground- breaking of last such project in Karachi on Monday. Brig Arif Mahmud Siddiqui, Director General, Pakistan Sports Board, performed the ground-breaking of Indoor Gymnasium at PSB Coaching Centre, Karachi. The [...]

Pakistan it seems is taking a keen interest in boosting tourism in the country. After the government’s decision to host the much hyped Taxila week in March and April this year, Pakistan is all set to host the Lahore Basant Festival 2005. “The Lahore Basant Festival 2005 will start from February 3 and will continue [...]

Punjab is planning to hold a two-day ‘Kite on Height’ festival at the Fort Munro in spring this year to attract tourists to the only hill station of South Punjab. The event, according to TDCP, would transform into ‘Kite on Height at Night’ after the daylight gala. Big lights will be installed to facilitate kite-flyers [...]

Pakistan’s largest sea festival will be held on the Clifton beach from Jan 7 to 9. It said that the theme of the Sindh Sea Festival will be “Save the Environment”. The festival is a project of the government of Sindh in collaboration with the Pakistan Navy. A grand firework would also be the part [...]

The ‘Joint Indo-Pak Peace and Goodwill’ delegation submitted a petition to the government demanding the construction of memorials at both the Pakistan and India borders to honour the people killed during the partition. According to the petition, millions of people suffered losses on both sides of the border during the partition. Thousands of Hindu, Muslim [...]

Most parts of the country received heavy to light rain, accompanied by chilly winds which brought temperature considerably down. Some parts of the country also received heavy to normal snowfall. Different parts of Northern Areas and Balochistan received snowfall up to one foot on Friday, a weather expert in Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) told Dawn. [...]

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 [...]