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Considering Pakistan as a major textile player with specific reference to the upcoming WTO regime, the participants evinced keen interest in the deliberations and information given by the Vice Chairman. Abid Javed Akbar, the Vice Chairman of the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB), during his visit to the Magic Marketplace and the ASAP Show informed the [...]

The Unesco’s regional advisor for culture in Asia and the Pacific announced on Thursday the Baltit Fort of Karimabad in the Hunza region has been honoured with the Award of Excellence in the Unesco 2004 Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for culture heritage conservation. The awards were announced in Bangkok on September 1. The Baltit Fort was [...]

The Pakistanis are coming. And in droves to India. The singers were always there from Pakistan — flitting in and out of the country, cutting an album and zooming off to the other side. But off late, there are people from different professions and interests coming to India to see their counterparts. For instance, a [...]

Keeping in view the importance and the immediate requirement of the country in the field of avionics, establishment of an institute of avionics and aerospace was the need of the hour… The institute will help solve the research and development problems of private and public sector institutions, he observed. The project will be helpful in [...]

The Provincial Education Department has been instructed to submit a feasibility report to introduce journalism at college level in the Punjab province. He told the gathering that he himself had studied as well as taught at the PU Mass Communication Department and remarked that journalism was an art. He also observed that education of journalism [...]

The Punjab Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) plans to introduce mountaineering and hiking clubs at schools and colleges. The department will publish material about tourism facilities in Pakistan, especially in Punjab. The source said although mountaineering and hiking existed in some universities, colleges and schools, the chief minister wanted such clubs in every school and college [...]

Telenor Pakistan and its network infrastructure provider Siemens Information and Communication Mobile have chosen Tecnomen to supply its Voice Mail System (VMS) and Multimedia Messaging Service Centre (MMSC). Delivery will take place this month. The Pakistan market is ripe with potential. As of the end of March of this year, the total mobile phone subscriber [...]

The London Metropolitan University (LMU) plans to open a full-fledged campus in Lahore. Punjab Education Minister Mian Imran Masood has constituted a special committee to finalise approve for the project. The committee was formed after LMU executives’ met with the minister at his office on Wednesday. Mr Masood told reporters that the establishment of an [...]

The National College of Arts (NCA) will open admissions for its upcoming film and TV department next month after a meeting of the academic committee, sources told Daily Times on Wednesday.The sources said that activities related to the film and TV department had started with two Iranian filmmakers expected to visit the NCA soon to [...]

The Global Spirit Airlines will soon inaugurate the air services between Islamabad and Manchester. The airline will operate under the UK Civil Aviation regulations and is initially planning to operate twice weekly from Manchester to Islamabad. The Chairman of the Airlines Tasejad Jeffery said that they were just awaiting the final paperwork from the Pakistani [...]