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Pakistan’s cricketers arrived in India on Wednesday for their first visit in more than five years for a ground-breaking one-day international with political overtones. The two teams will meet on Saturday at Calcutta’s Eden Gardens in front of a capacity crowd of 120,000 to celebrate the Indian cricket board’s 75th anniversary. The last test there [...]

PAKISTAN, impressed with the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC), has invited Malaysian companies to take part in the development of a US$50 million (US$1 = RM3.80) intelligent city project in Islamabad. Pakistan’s Board of Investment (BOI) investment counsellor Datuk Salim Fateh Din said Islamabad is developing a 6ha site into an intelligent city like Cyberjaya, but [...]

The two-week exhibition of water colour paintings titled ‘Street Scenes of Karachi and Sufis of Sindh’ by renowned Karachi-based painter Sarfraz Musawir opened at the Nomad Art Gallery on Tuesday. Thirty-two deftly drafted and aesthetically pleasing works depicting different landscapes of the famous streets and squares of Karachi, most of them drenched in rain water, [...]

A US-based energy firm plans to invest $1.2 billion in Pakistan’s wind power generation sector in Sindh province, the Ministry of Finance said in a statement. Chief Executive Officer of Access Energy Group International (AGI) of the United States, Shahid Naeem met with Minister of State for Finance Omar Ayub Khan here on Monday and [...]

The International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) has forecasted all-time-high world cotton production in 2004-05 of 111 million bales, amending its previous estimation of 102 million bales and estimating China as the top cotton producing nation with Pakistan taking fourth position. The US-based ICAC stated this in its recent report received here by local traders and [...]

The famous heroine of Punjabi films Sheeba Bhakri is ready to spread the message of harmony across the border in Pakistan through a Pakistani Punjabi film ‘Badda Choudhury’. After registering her name as a successful actress in both Punjabi and Hindi films, Sheeba Bhakri is going to enter into the Pakistani film world opposite the [...]

Twenty-one year old Pakistani actress Meera is making her Bollywood debut in Soni Razdan ‘s suspense thriller Nazar . Meera is shooting for the film in Goa nowadays. Meera, fondly referred as ‘Madhuri Dixit of Pakistan’, has taken her first step into Hindi film industry. She frankly admits that she was always fond of Hindustani [...]

The private sector airline Airblue’s Commercial Director, S. Nasir Ali – said the airline, is expanding its network by adding Peshawar to its route’s network. Airblue was launched on June 18 this year with its high-tech A320 aircraft, flying domestic sectors to Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore. Nasir said the airline started with a fully computerised [...]

Begum Salma Ahmed’s own grit and her determination to get the women out of their shells, especially in the sub-continent, truly sets her apart from many women of her generation. Based in Karachi, Begum Salma Ahmed one of the first woman industrialists of Pakistan, she is the founder-president of Pakistan Association of Women Entrepreneurs (PAWE) [...]

The leading kids’ entertainment channel of international repute, ‘Cartoon Network’ has been launched in Pakistan, whereas Strategic Alliances has been appointed by the channel to handle its advertising sales in the country, a news report said Friday. The Network has set-up a dedicated beam for Pakistan, airing its premium quality programmes featuring cartoon stars like [...]