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Yash Chopra’s forthcoming film aims to bridge the differences between people in India and Pakistan through a touching love story between an Indian pilot and a Pakistani girl. Even though a major part of the movie has been completed for quite some time now, Chopra had not revealed its title. But now it is confirmed [...]

SUMAIRA ZAHOOR has seldom had the experience of running in front of more than a few hundred spectators during an impressive career at the national and South Asian level. On Tuesday night she ran in front of more than 50,000 people at a place that is currently at the centre of the world’s attention – [...]

The Caritas Pakistan, a non-governmental organisation, has built a playground for blind girls in Youhanabad. Abdul Rauf Rohilla, district governor of the Rotary Club Midtown, inaugurated the playground on Sunday. He praised Caritas Pakistan for helping the blind and pledged that the Rotary Club was always ready to cooperate with Caritas…

An American university has included illustrations of the first Pakistani female cartoonist, Nigar Nazar, in its two books, a press release here Saturday said. The Career Center of the University of Oregon, USA, in a letter have expressed their appreciation and gratitude to Nigar Nazar of Gogi fame, for her valuable contribution in illustrating their [...]

A writer [who] belongs to the remote Northern Areas has been awarded ‘best book writing award’ for her book on the people and culture of Baltistan. Uzma Saleem, has been selected for the award by the National Book Foundation Islamabad for her book titled “Bay Say Bachary, Bay Say Baltistan”…

Talks are abuzz that lissome Katrina Kaif has consented to act in a film that will be directed by a Pakistani filmmaker. Reports say that Javed Raza of Pakistan has signed Katrina and another Indian male actor to play the leading roles in his film which is titled as Koi Pyar Na Karey…

An exhibition of artistic work of budding artists of Fine Arts Department of Fatima Jinnah Women University was inaugurated here at the University premises by Vice-Chancellor Dr Najma Najam.The art pieces contained calligraphic work, professional drawings and things made of handmade paper all of which were the result of a series of summer workshops conducted [...]

The Sindh Women Development Department has established the Women Crisis Centre, first of its kind in the country, to provide assistance to the women exposed to domestic and other sorts of violence of serious nature. The centre was formally inaugurated here on Tuesday. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the [...]

Hina Khan, a student of Mass Communication at Kinnaird College for Women, will represent Pakistan at an international conference organised by Harvard University. The conference will be held in Shanghai from August 18 to 21. Ms Hina will present a paper on ‘Population Planning’.

The only woman in Pakistan’s Olympic track and field team for Athens has ruled out targeting a medal and has instead set herself the humble ambition of not finishing last. “I know the star-studded line-up in the 1,500 meters leaves me nowhere in the medal race but for me the main thing is that I [...]