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Three proposed garment city projects in Lahore, Karachi, and Faisalabad will be functional in the next 15 months, says commerce secretary Tasnim Noorani. Those who attended the meeting included 13 leading garment manufacturers from Faisalabad. The meeting discussed matters relating to the formation of a company to handle the execution of the Faisalabad Garment City [...]

An exhibition of photographs opened at the National College of Arts Zahoorul Ikhlaq Gallery on Saturday. Over 50 photographs were on display and were divided into three categories – digital photography, basic photography and fashion photography. The subjects of the photographs ranged from portraits, buildings, musical instruments and faces to kids. Speaking on the occasion, [...]

Shell card enables customers to refuel their vehicles round-the-clock from selected Shell stations through out the country. Based on a unique PIN number system, the transactions are completely safe and no one can execute any transactions without correct code…

The city will taste south Indian food under a “culinary diplomacy” move as three Indian chefs have arrived in the city to take part in a food festival. The festival, Solidarity with a Southern Twist, will continue from September 4 to 17 at Pearl Continental Hotel. This is a return visit from Uppal Orchid, an [...]

Once again the cars filled with their families came to San Francisco for the Aug. 14 event from surrounding cities, including Live Oak, Yuba City, Woodland, Davis, Sacramento, Lodi, Stockton, and even as far as Fresno. Add to that the Pakistani ‘locals’ from Silicon Valley and the rest of the Bay and there you had [...]

In order to commercialize the research being conducted in the various universities, research labs, institutes and research centers in Pakistan, Higher Education Commission (HEC) is setting up National Technology Incubators (NTIs) in the country, says Chairman HEC, while chairing the meeting of ‘Technology Incubators in Pakistan’, here today. This would accelerate the process of technology [...]

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited’s (PTCL) offer of free connections is expected to crop some Rs 250 million to Rs 300 million off the state-owned company’s bottom line by the end of current financial year. Business managers at the company have calculated that over 400,000 connections would be provided in the week-long campaign which started Thursday. [...]

Indian and Pakistani peace activists converged on their countries’ main border crossing on Friday to mark 10 years of campaigning for improved relations between the South Asian neighbours. “The credit for friendship (moves) between Pakistan and India goes to our forum,” said Ram Das, chairman of the Indian chapter of the Pakistan India People’s Forum [...]

The facility would also enable the mobile users to keep their contacts intact even after they change the operator. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has decided to introduce mobile number portability (MNP) to enable cellular mobile subscribers to retain their mobile phone numbers when they change mobile operators. An official of PTA said that the [...]

This is for the first time ever that the common man in Pakistan will have the opportunity to directly be scouted into Bollywood. Wannabees has been presented by Saha Dubai Eggs and is supported by Panasonic and Arabian Automobiles, Altima cars in association with Hum FM and Red Square. As an Indo – Pak venture, [...]