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How Karachi scores over Mumbai: The airport is better, the roads are pothole-free, and the people are warm, gracious and more polite, say the Vaziranis. ”We want to share (with you all) just how warm the people of Pakistan are,” gushes Mala Vazirani (47) who along with husband Suresh runs Transasia Bio-Medical, a Saki Naka-based [...]

An exhibition of photographs and iron pictures by Chinese artists will open at the Shakir Ali Museum on Monday in connection with the 55th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. The exhibition will be organised by the Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA) in collaboration with the Chinese Embassy. Some iron [...]

Over the past five years, investor confidence levels, aided by the quick pace of reforms in Pakistan, have risen steadily and local IT market spend figures soared to $500m annually. It was in 2003 that a group of senior professionals in corporate Pakistan decided to invest in technology, a market that had grown over 300% [...]

Toromont Industries Ltd. said today its Cimco Refrigeration division has been awarded two recreational equipment orders worth about $4 million in total — one in China and the other in Pakistan. Cimco has also won a contract for the first artificial ice rink in Pakistan. The indoor rink is being built on the fifth floor [...]

It is after almost a decade that Naeem Pasha has decided to exhibit some of the works he had been engaged with over the period of time and he had decided to do so at ‘The Art Gallery’ of Mubeena Zubairi. The exhibition will open on Friday (October 1) with a formal opening at 5:30pm. [...]

Abdul Razzaq and Shahid Afridi produced brilliant all-round performances Thursday to earn Pakistan an easy 144-run win over a young Zimbabwe in their opening limited-overs international of the three-country series. Razzaq struck an unbeaten 107 while Afridi hit a whirlwind 58 off 26 balls to help Pakistan raise a strong total of 292 for seven [...]

A delegation of [Indian] scientists led by Dr Darshan Singh visited University of Agriculture in Faisalabad, Pakistan, from September 21-26 to attend the international conference on Entomological Sciences and International Workshop on Cotton. The other delegates included Dr G S Deol, head, Department of Entomology; Dr Amrik Singh Sohi, Dr V K Dilawari, Dr Gursharan [...]

“I studied up to intermediate level. Karachi is my birthplace. My father was a trader dealing in general electrical goods. I am married with three sons and a daughter. Presently my children are getting primary level education.” “As I was not interested in any private job so after intermediate I took dealership of fans of [...]

The University of Karachi will establish its own museum of science, natural history and art on campus for the benefit of university students and visitors, said the university vice-chancellor on Tuesday. Speaking at the launching ceremony of computerized record of the zoology museum of the university, vice-chancellor Dr Pirzada Qasim, said that museums had not [...]

A 32-year-old Pakistani woman diagnosed as suffering from the brain tumour has benefited from Apollo Hospital’s newly launched New Delhi-Lahore telemedicine link by getting expert advice from radiation oncologists. The crucial link, a boon for patients and caregivers, looking for the best medical opinions, was inaugurated in Lahore today by Ms Anne Marie Moncure, Managing [...]