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If Bollywood is taking efforts to cement the friendship between India and Pakistan, Lollywood is not far behind. In his attempt to enhance the business and friendship between two nations, Javed Raza, known as Pakistan’s showman; has roped in Bollywood hottie Neha Dhupia for an item number in his Pak film, Kabhi Pyar Na Karna.

Lahore College for Women University (LCWU) hopes to strike a blow for gender equality with its new course in gender and development studies and by starting Pakistan’s first FM radio station run by women. She said the course is being taught by qualified teachers and a Canadian professor is expected to join the university soon. [...]

The issue driving forward the fair was clearly etched out in the slogan; “Visible Products, Invisible hands.” It sought to make visible poverty-stricken women across Pakistan, who turn to the traditional arts of their area-usually passed down from mother to daughter over generations-to increase their household income. But because these women are manacled by 3 [...]

Mehro Abbas and Zile Huma started their job last week and are serving on route number 33 of the bus service. Four more girls are under training and will soon begin working. The company plans on recruiting a total of 60 girls. Abbas and Huma, both aged 20, are not only confident about the job, [...]

The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) academy has been all-male for more than 55 years – but now it is going through major change. Women are now allowed to enrol on its aerospace engineering and fighter pilot programmes and are doing rather well. Male cadets are having to come to terms with the fact that masculinity [...]

In a chic downtown lobby across the street from the Old Executive Office Building, Saadia Musa answers phones, orders sandwiches and lets in the FedEx guy. And she does it all from Karachi, Pakistan. Saadia Musa, on a big screen in the District, works from Pakistan as a receptionist for the Resource Group, a call-center [...]

Shazia’s finger, which has been mysteriously churning out needles and operated upon five times for 8 needles to be taken out so far, didn’t show any sign of the new one cropping up, when X-rayed after two days of the last operation, while her mystified family members attribute this to the outcome of successful counter-measures [...]

Where there is a will there is a way, no matter whether you are a male or a female like the forecourt manager of a petrol pump at Aabpara. In a male-dominated society, Rubina is one of those fortunate females who have the full support of her husband to go out and work in an [...]

The Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) credential is for technology professionals who have the skills to successfully implement a Microsoft product or technology as part of a business solution. At just 9 years old, Arfa Karim Randhawa , of Faisalabad, Pakistan, is one of the youngest MCPs in the world. She recently received her credentials from [...]

Sheikha Mohammad Hamoud Alhamdi, a 21-year-old from UAE, who has married a local of Karak and considers Pakistanis loving and caring, is learning Pashto to share Arabic folktales and stories with her in-laws. Ms Alhamdi is hopeful she would get a Pakistani citizenship like two Indian girls before her, a few months ago. “I am [...]