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Birds that migrate from Siberia to Pakistan and India during September to November have started arriving here and the NWFP Wildlife department has started organizing communities along river Kabul and Indus to contain hunting. Birds have started arriving in Pakistan as the winter season started in Siberia (Russia) and this activity will gain momentum if [...]

Love triumphed over diplomatic rivalry yesterday as Pakistan granted citizenship to an Indian woman so she could live with her Pakistani husband. The announcement to grant citizenship to Hafsa Khan came as President Pervaiz Musharraf met Manmohan Singh, the Indian prime minister, in New York. “Despite legal limitations, this was done in the best interests [...]

It is called Little Karachi and is fast turning into the Norwegian capital’s hottest place to live and hang out. Situated just east of the city centre, the Groenland area has become a thriving part of the city with international shops, restaurants and cafes – and a distinctly subcontinental flavour. “If we lived here, we [...]

Plans to expand the Lahore Museum over an 11-kanal-area, construct several new galleries, establish a research department, install the latest security, temperature-control and ticketing systems were announced by the museum director, Gulzar Mashhadi, on Wednesday. The new galleries in the museum will include a section called the City Museum, to portray cultural items from Lahore, [...]

The Punjab Tourism Department (PTD) on the special directives of the provincial chief minister will develop a 12-bed tourist resort-cum-motel at Wagah border to promote tourism and attract foreign and local tourists. Unfolding the plans for the promotion of tourism in the province, Punjab Tourism Minister Mian Muhammad Aslam Iqbal in an exclusive interview with [...]

The ‘golden mile’ in the country’s financial capital glitters Pakistan’s economy, says one top officials of the Central Board of Revenue (CBR) about the road, which also houses the country’s most popular electronic media, the GEO TV, and the biggest publishing house, the Jang Group of Newspapers. “Some 90 per cent of financial and business [...]

FOR centuries, Heera Mandi in Lahore nurtured some outstanding performing artistes, including the famous Noorejahan, Khurshid, Shamshad Begum, Mumtaz Shanti and many others. Most of the early film actresses for pre-Partition Lahore cinema came from the kothas of Heera Mandi. The art of music in Punjab was confined to the streets of the courtesans with [...]

As Indian and Pakistani diplomats meet to push forward peace, their border guards play out a jingoistic ritual of confrontation to the delight of thousands of onlookers from both sides. The carefully choreographed display of hostility takes place every evening at a flag-lowering ceremony on both sides of the rivals’ only border crossing. Loudspeakers blare [...]

Pakistani chefs use the same robust spices, chillies, turmeric, coriander, cumin and garam masala. And tandoori cooking and Mughlai food are intrinsic to their culture too. So can our much-loved, much-loathed neighbours claim their own culinary identity? Absolutely, say chefs visiting from across the border for an ongoing food festival in Mumbai. “The usage is [...]

The city will taste south Indian food under a “culinary diplomacy” move as three Indian chefs have arrived in the city to take part in a food festival. The festival, Solidarity with a Southern Twist, will continue from September 4 to 17 at Pearl Continental Hotel. This is a return visit from Uppal Orchid, an [...]