Page 117

Pakistan’s top tennis star, Aisamul Haq maintaining his dream run won the ITF Futures Tennis Championship toppling second seed German Sebastian Fitz in a three set thriller, 2-6, 7-6 (7), 6-3 at the hard courts of National Tennis Centre here in Lagos, Nigeria Tuesday. This is a historic and landmark victory for Aisam as he [...]

Musharaf Hai, chairman of Unilever Pakistan has made it to Fortune Magazine’s 2004 ranking of the 50 most powerful women in business. Hai, who is ranked at number 46 on the list, is the only woman from Pakistan to make it to the popular ranking. ‘The most prominent businesswoman in a country where women usually [...]

Insiyah Nomanbhoy, 17, a Pakistani-American teenager studying at Castilleja Girl’s High School (A-levels), in Palo Alto, CA, USA, was recently chosen by her school and Save The Children, an International Charitable Organization, to be a teen representative on their ’2004 Women’s Delegation to Ethiopia and Uganda.’ In March 2004, Insiyah and her fellow students at [...]

A unique exhibition of calligraphy in ceramics and pottery by well known artist, Dabir Ahmed, was inaugurated at ‘The Art Gallery’ on Monday evening. Dabir, who graduated from the National College of Arts (NCA) in 1966 and then adopted a teaching career at the same institution from 1976 till the time he retired as the [...]

Pakistan’s tennis prodigy Aisamul Haq Qureshi breezed into the final of the ITF Futures International Tennis Championship in Lagos, Nigeria, after scoring a brilliant victory over South African Davis Cupper Raven Klaasen, said a facsimile message received here Monday. Aisam lost the first set 1-6 under hot and humid conditions. It was a real bad [...]

When Gino Marotta, the famous Italian artist, confesses that his unrestrainable curiosity makes him unable to resist the calls of new opportunities which arise from any new material or mental stimulus, his artwork, which was put to exposition at the Amin Gulgee Gallery on Saturday, endorses his confession vividly. And Laura Fioretta, Cultural AttachÈ at [...]

Pakistani motorcycle riders are smiling as never before as Chinese models are compelling local manufacturers to drop prices. “The rise in the sale of low-priced Chinese motorbikes, both imported and locally assembled, has forced leading motorcycle companies to reduce their prices,” The News reported Sunday. Prices of locally made motorcycles range from Rs.37,000 to Rs.41,000, [...]

Pakistan beat India by three strokes to win the team international event of the 44th National Amateur golf championship, registering their fifth consecutive victory against arch rivals in the international meets, here at Lahore Gymkhana course on Saturday. Pakistan posted a score of 430 after adding 221 to previous days score of 209 to beat [...]

Pakistan Railways (PR) has decided to start a new passenger train called Millat Express on the Faisalabad-Karachi route on November 7 (21st Ramzan). The train will be the fastest in the country, running at 120km/h, and will slash the travel time between the two cities by almost two hours. PR sources told Daily Times that [...]

About 150 diplomats, politicians, artists, and others paid tribute at a concert by Pakistani musicians to Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was slain in the city by Islamic militants. Pearl was kidnapped and beheaded in Karachi in 2002 while researching a story on Islamic militancy. Pakistani vocalist Farooq Ahmed, accompanied by guitarist Amir [...]