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Berkleemusic.com, the online extension school of Berklee College of Music, today announced the recipients of the world’s first-ever online music scholarship program. After reviewing applications and demos from talented musicians worldwide, five gifted musicians and future music industry leaders were selected that exhibited significant promise, achievement, and inspired life stories. Each recipient will receive a [...]

Pakistan’s women ministry has launched a new programme with the support of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) for the education and training in political processes of female leaders and representatives of local bodies across the country. “The Women’s Political School [WPS] project will help in institutionalising the process of training of women political leaders, taking [...]

Musharaf Hai, chairman of Unilever Pakistan has made it to Fortune Magazine’s 2004 ranking of the 50 most powerful women in business. Hai, who is ranked at number 46 on the list, is the only woman from Pakistan to make it to the popular ranking. ‘The most prominent businesswoman in a country where women usually [...]

Insiyah Nomanbhoy, 17, a Pakistani-American teenager studying at Castilleja Girl’s High School (A-levels), in Palo Alto, CA, USA, was recently chosen by her school and Save The Children, an International Charitable Organization, to be a teen representative on their ’2004 Women’s Delegation to Ethiopia and Uganda.’ In March 2004, Insiyah and her fellow students at [...]

UNLIKE MOST in the fashion designer fraternity who dress to “look” their profession, Nilofer Shahid comes across as a surprise. A pleasant one indeed. Dressed in a simple white kurta-pajama matched with a blue stole, this Lahore-based designer does not feel the need to visually announce that she is riding the high tide. But riding [...]

Pakistan Saturday staged its first ever women’s soccer match to mark the FIFA (International Football Federation) Fair Play Day which officials said would help boost women’s sports in this Muslim country. The Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) organised the match and coach Tariq Lutfi told AFP it would go a long way in promoting women’s sports [...]

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 [...]

Indian film actress Kareena Kapoor has signed Javed Sheikh’s upcoming film ‘Khulay Asman Kay Nichay’ (KAKN) in Mumbai. Pakistani film actress Sana will be co-starring with Ms Kapoor, Lollywood sources told Daily Times on Thursday. Javed, who is currently filming in India, said that he would definitely be signing an Indian actress for KAKN but [...]

In 1983, a ‘princess’ married a ‘woodcutter’. She was 24 and he, 35. Most of her family refused to attend the wedding in Lahore. Her father’s family, the Pirs of Shergarh, were Syeds, proud descendants of the Prophet of Islam. Her mother’s family, the Alis, were Pakistan’s biggest industrialists. Whereas, his family were Punjabi Khatris, [...]

Mehr Khan Williams, a Pakistani national, has been appointed as UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Commission. Khan Williams has worked for the United Nations since 1976. She has held senior management positions in New York, Florence and Bangkok with UNICEF and has also served as Acting Director of the United Nations Information Centre [...]