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As the heads of India and Pakistan prepare for a meeting in New York that is expected to boost peace talks, a wedding show back home is propelling people-to-people contact — often cited by analysts as the bulwark of any permanent peace deal. In its sixth year, Bridal Asia is more an India-Pakistan bonhomie forum [...]

Saudi Arabia is to provide jobs to more than twenty thousand Pakistani Doctors to strengthen all fields of its health sector. The announcement was made in a joint news conference addressed by Saudi Health Minister and his Pakistani counterpart in Islamabad on Tuesday. The Saudi Mminister emphasised to strengthen cooperation in different areas of health [...]

NetSol Technologies, a developer of proprietary software applications and provider of information technology (IT) services, today announced its wholly-owned subsidiary, NetSol (Pvt) Ltd., has been awarded a new contract by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). Under the terms of the contract, which would bring immediate and significant revenues, NetSol will undertake several major software [...]

The project â€" to be developed on a build, own and operate-basis for 20 years â€" is estimated for completion within 18 months. The wind-powered power plant will be located in the Bin Qasim, outskirts of Karachi. ‘The Government of Pakistan intends to purchase the 50 MW of power to be generated from the power [...]

The fast emerging economic tiger, Thailand, has offered to develop Pakistan’s silk industry which, according to former foreign minister Prachuab Chaiyasan, would add silky shine to the country’s economy. Thailand had offered dozens of proposals to Pakistan to further boost the economy and raise the standard of living of the people of the two countries, [...]

Ufone, a leading [Pakistani] cellular GSM operator, on Monday signed the single largest expansion contract in Pakistan’s cellular history, with Nortel Networks for the extension of its network in 2004-05. Under the contract valued at over $125 million, Nortel will expand Ufone’s Global System for Mobile (GSM) and General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) networks to [...]

An exhibition titled ‘Ode to Lahore in Colour’ featuring pastel works and drawings by Aboo opened here at Croweaters Gallery on Monday. Over 20 works are on display at the show. Among these, ‘Summer heat,’ in pencil, ‘Spring time,’ in pastel and ‘Long and winding path of N Sharif Park’, were exceptionally dazzling. The artworks [...]

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has given over 42,000 free of cost phone connections in Karachi during its two-week long ‘Bilkul Muft’ Scheme. On September 2, the state-owned telecom giant launched its ‘Bilkul Muft’ Scheme under which the phone utility waived a Rs750 fee for demand note for two weeks to install free of cost [...]

Sunday in leafy Edgbaston was less tranquil than usual yesterday. The first rays of the September sun were barely filtering through the trees when the bugles and whistles, drums and airhorns, which day long were to fill the air with the noise of a million bees, began. By the end, as Pakistan steered their way [...]

The Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology will hold a three-day all Pakistan software, multimedia, quiz and speed programming competition (Soft com 2004) from Sept 23 to 25. A spokesman for the institute told reporters on Sunday that Softcom 2004 would provide opportunities to contestants to exhibit their skills in the field [...]