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The Goethe Institut will screen seven feature films on its newly opened premises over a month. The film festival will begin on Thursday. The movies will be screened on Thursdays and Mondays at 7pm. According to a brochure issued by the German cultural centre, the first film to be screened is titled Halbe Treppe (Grill [...]

AWAIS Javed (22) fought with his parents. Mohammad Hanif (22) has put his plans of taking the civil services exam on hold. Rana Waqas Ahmed (22) juggles his lectures in physiotherapy with rehearsals. All this for theatre—and peace between India and Pakistan. Twenty-one students from various educational institutions in Lahore are in Mumbai—for the first [...]

Pakistanis living in Riyadh celebrated Eid Al-Fitr in a traditional way, despite the changes in lifestyle brought about by modern trends. Most Pakistani expatriates preferred to wear traditional dresses, colorful bangles and henna patterns during the celebration. Scores of men, young and old, were seen chewing betel quids, picnicking in the desert and holding gossip [...]

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education have named Akbar S. Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies and professor of international relations at American University, the 2004 District of Columbia Professor of the Year. Mr Ahmed is the former high commissioner of Pakistan to [...]

Worcestershire county cricket club have signed fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar for the 2005 season subject to official clearance from the Pakistan Cricket Board. In a statement on its official website on Wednesday the second division club said Shoaib would be available from July 1. “Shoaib is a world class strike bowler in both forms of [...]

Pakistan’s Ministry for Information Technology has published draft legislation creating a new foreign data protection regime, which will help European and US companies when outsourcing to the country, according to a report by Islamabad News. EU law in particular restricts businesses transferring data to countries with weak privacy protection, and with the Ministry apparently expecting [...]

Metallurgical Construction Company of China (MCC) will launch expansion project of its Saindak copper-gold mining project located in Pakistan. The MCC resumed production in Saindak project in August 2003 after a 7-year hiatus. Total investment of this expansion project will probably reach USD 22 mln, and the project is still operated by MCC Resource Development [...]

For the last couple of years, Chinese firms had been attracting the largest crowds at the India International Trade Fair (IITF). Being a partner country this year, China brought in the largest business delegation, comprising almost 100 companies. But going by the sparse crowds at the Chinese pavilion, India’s fascination with the dragon seems to [...]

IN LESS than three months, Thomas Watters has mastered 38 letters of the Urdu alphabet, twisted his tongue around unfamiliar vocabulary and learnt to write in script. The first-year pupil at Shawlands Academy in Glasgow is one of several non-Asian children in his class who have chosen to study a language that is not part [...]

With the start of a free intellectual exchange between India and Pakistan, Indian readers now have the chance to read books on Pakistan’s history, economy, laws, culture, music and even fiction. While Indian books have always been available in our neighbouring country, the exchange was, till now, never mutual due to Pakistan’s restrictive trade policy. [...]