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Wide roads like the magnificent Lahore-Islamabad motorway, broad avenues like the ones in Islamabad and modern houses with state-of-the-art furnishings as at Mirpur showed Pakistan in a good light. The encounter opened my eyes to the misconceptions Pakistanis and Indians had about each other, though they had many things in common. When I narrated this [...]

It has long been a source of debate why there are so few Asian players in English football and none at the top level — until now. Zesh Rehman, whose parents are from Pakistan, is the first British Asian to command a regular place in the top flight. The Fulham defender broke into Chris Coleman’s [...]

The fourth Kara Film Festival opens on Friday with feature films, documentaries and short films lined up for showing at the Pakistan Institute of International Affairs Auditorium. A number of delegates and international film-makers are in town to attend the 10-day festival that was formally initiated with Thursday’s opening ceremony at the Hindu Gymkhana with [...]

Khamosh Pani, a Pakistani film based on partition, will be released in eight cities in India Friday making it the first film from the neighboring country to bescreened here, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported Thursday. The film has been screened 41 times through mobile screening inboth rural and urban Pakistan and was currently [...]

The president of the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP), Syed Ali Raza, has confirmed that the bank will open a branch in India. “The trade volume between the two countries would definitely grow with the opening of our branch in India,” he said Talking to journalists after signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with another [...]

Spain’s men’s field hockey team shunned the offer of air travel to instead cross the picturesque Wagah border between India and Pakistan and enjoy a cup of tea with the commanding officer of the Pakistan Rangers frontier guards. Spain coach Maurits Hendricks, whose team had just completed two matches against India and was traveling to [...]

All the rooms and pavilions of the Mohatta Palace Museum buzzed with activity as a major exhibition showcasing the history of Karachi got under way on Wednesday. Organized by the Mohatta Palace Museum in collaboration with the Dawn Group of Newspapers, the 90-day exhibition is titled Jewel in the crown: Karachi under the Raj 1843-1947. [...]

NetSol will design, develop and implement a fully-integrated MTMIS solution, facilitating business processes, enabling information sharing, and streamlining all inter and intra-department communications. The MTMIS will be managed by the Vehicle Registration Authority, along with the local police and constituent districts, including local and provincial police, environmental protection authorities, Highway Safety and Penalty System Management, [...]

Indian and Pakistani youth pitted their debating skills against each other here Thursday with the growing camaraderie between their countries reflected in the cross-current of ideas and verbal exchanges that were without rancour. The Pakistani team, comprising three students from different colleges, beat the Indians in the first India-Pakistan Seminar Debate organised by Miranda House [...]

AMIR Khan glanced at his dad and then his manager as he sought the right words for the answer to the question that could shape the rest of his life. Four years from now he could be an Olympic gold medallist or a multi-millionaire. Which would he prefer? We were sitting in a suite at [...]