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Expatriate communities make the Kingdom a home away from home for a comfortable and peaceful living. There are several places which are better known for their expatriate concentration and therefore by their nicknames. One such place is a typical Pakistani city in the heart of Riyadh. The place, popularly known as ‘Islamabad’, is centrally located [...]

Indian cricket took a leaf out of their Olympic colleagues. Flat, uninspiring and hopelessly outclassed, they lost the opening Videocon Cup game to Pakistan by a mile. India bowled like misers for 30 overs and like millionaires for three overs. Then they batted like millionaires for three overs and miserably for the rest. It was [...]

Do not underestimate the importance of this match. Assuming that India and Pakistan don’t meet again in the final of this event, the next time they take each other on will be on September 19, in what will virtually be the quarter-final of the ICC Champions Trophy. Inzamam will then go into that game with [...]

Close on the heels of the bus and train service, the Indian publishing sector is now establishing links with Pakistan. Vanguard Books, Pakistan’s leading publishing house run by editor-publisher Najam Sethi, enters distribution agreement with Foundation Books of India. For the first time, books from Pakistan will find place in Indian educational institutions through Indian [...]

The Punjab Chief Minister has announced the construction of an IMAX Theater and a theme park covering a 92-kanal area opposite Gaddafi Stadium to provide better recreational facilities to the people. The CM was presiding over a meeting held to review IMAX Theatre and other recreational projects on Saturday …

A district and sessions court heard a bail application through a video linkup with Lahore Camp Jail for the first time in Pakistan on Saturday. The defence and prosecution lawyers argued from the jail while District and Sessions Judge Abdus Salam Khawar watched them in his courtroom. Video cameras, television sets and modems were installed [...]

The Punjab Archaeology Department (PAD) has planned night cultural shows at Shalamar Gardens and the Lahore Fort and these two heritage buildings will now remain illuminated throughout the night, PAD Director General Farzana Qureshi told Daily Times on Friday. She said floodlights were being put up for security reasons also. The PAD director general said [...]

Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said that a helicopter service will be introduced in the Lahore region for transporting people injured during natural calamities and other accidents. He made the announcement at a meeting in the Mayo Hospital here on Saturday…

The federal government, she said, had decided that special children were eligible to appear in civil services competitions whereas two per cent quota had already been reserved for them…

American scientists have urged India and Pakistan to set up a joint science center at the Siachen Glaciers that will greatly help both the countries economically. They strongly believed that if the two nations pull out troops and replace the military forces in the region with scientists and engineers (from India and Pakistan) “who would [...]