Page 107

There was an exhibition of photographs titled ‘Borders and Beyond’ at the Shakir Ali Museum on Monday organised by the Swiss embassy in collaboration with the Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA). Tim Enderlin, the Swiss chief of embassy affairs, said that the aim of the exhibition was to portray some aspects of borders and [...]

Following a rare initiative involving an international health agency, an airline and the administration of a hospital in Karachi, a kidney was flown in from Europe and transplanted into an 18-year-old Pakistani, Uzma, in the early hours of Sunday. A patient of end-stage renal disease, Uzma had been on dialysis for the last more than [...]

China has promised to send 65 new freight wagons to the Pakistan Railways (PR) on November 26 while Germany is providing the PR with state-of-the-art track sensing technology, sources told Daily Times on Monday. The new lot of wagons is part of a shipment of 400 freight wagons to Pakistan from China under an earlier [...]

The archaeology department’s preservation and restoration team has discovered eight antiquities consisting fragments including the sculpture of future Buddha, god Indra and his bodyguard dating back to the first century AD. The antiquities had been discovered during the preservation work at the ancient and world famous archaeological site of the Gandhara civilisation locally known as [...]

Pakistan’s business leaders expect the Karachi stock market to rise today, driven by the decision of Shaukat Aziz, prime minister, to end ahead of schedule the country’s loan programme with the International Monetary Fund. “The begging bowl has been broken forever,” said Mr Aziz on Friday evening as he announced that Pakistan had declined the [...]

In an era characterised by credit card culture, debit cards are gaining popularity, among all sorts of bank account holders. In the western countries, the debit card was already quite popular. However, in the East also, the use of debit cards is on increase. The simple reason why the use of debit card is increasing [...]

The city of Nawabs is hosting Pakistani food festival to give with the Lucknawis a taste of the sumptuous Lahori spread. Began on Friday, the “Zaika-e-Pakistan” aims at familiarising the people of Lucknow with the delicacies of Pakistan. Pakistani chefs would fly down especially to Lucknow Pakistan to prepare the vegetarian and non-vegetarian delicacies. Pakistani [...]

The renowned ‘Orfeon Chamber Choir’ from Ankara, Turkey, gave a charismatic performance at the Turkish embassy auditorium on Thursday evening to mark the 66th anniversary of the directive issued by Quaid-i-Azam to observe November 18 as ‘Kemal Day’ throughout the subcontinent. The performance started a little late because of the delayed arrival of Foreign Minister [...]

I am a physically handicapped person because of my legs but facing all odds of life with courage and dignity. When I was of 2 years of age, I got a leg injury. I was not born physically handicapped. Some thing went wrong during my 12 years long treatment. After that I could not recover. [...]

Mukhtar Yusaf knows about patience. For 18 years he has worked as a waiter, explaining menus and specials to customers night after night. He is from Pakistan, where patience is a way of life, especially when it comes to cooking. “There are no shortcuts to flavor,” Yusaf says, brandishing a wooden ladle in his small, [...]