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Fashion designers studying at various fashion institutes around the world participate in the competition each year. The 23rd such competition was held in Paris and Louvre on December 15 last year. A promising Pakistani fashion designer, Hassan Ashraf Butt studying at the Pakistan School of Fashion Design (PSFD), won the ‘Country Prize’ at a fashion [...]

His group was banned from performing in Pakistan from 1996 to 1999 after referring to government corruption in a song and protesting Pakistan’s and India’s nuclear testing. One of Salman Ahmad’s earliest gigs was a talent show at King Edward Medical College in Lahore, Pakistan, where he was studying to be a doctor. Moments after [...]

A visit to Khori garden is every book lover’s dream come true. Its narrow lane is lined with bookshops that offer books of all shapes and sizes. Situated in a congested business area of the city – the Bolton Market, Khori garden is a treat to visit. Some shopkeepers of the area believe that it [...]

The new ultra-fast cable will multiply the existing data transfer rate and was expected to ultimately reach 1.25 terabytes per second, equivalent to conducting more than 15 million calls simultaneously. When running at full capacity, the data transfer rate would be equivalent to more than a million internet users simultaneously having real-time access to a [...]

Karachi, Pakistan’s commercial capital, has only one sitar maker, and he is afraid that after his death, there will be no one to carry on the legacy. Zafar says that sitar making has become such a rarity that it alone cannot help him sustain and in the day he has to work as an assistant [...]

Sardarpur Jhandeer Town continues to attract people for its admirable peculiarities. Of all the achievements the town has made over the years, the Jhandeer Library stands out as a source of knowledge… It is the biggest privately-run library in terms of the number of books, which exceeds 130,000, in Urdu, English Punjabi and Seraiki on [...]

Forced marriage is the ugly flip side of arranged marriage, a widespread and valued tradition in South Asia. In arranged marriages, parents typically help their son or daughter choose a suitable partner — often along lines of class, education, or wealth — but leave the ultimate decision to the child. Forced marriage, however, has no [...]

Designed, developed and illustrated with a meticulous care, the software enables every one to read and understand Shah’s poetry accurately. Two young sisters – Nusrat Khowaja and Naveed Khowaja – have designed and developed first ever illustrated software on Shah Latif’s poetry. The software provides a single platform for reading and translation of Shah’s magnum [...]

Domestic tourists have always been able to enjoy the spectacular scenery and hospitality of the people of Pakistani Kashmir. A string of guest houses, most run by state agencies, grew up for the trickle of visitors from the lowlands but most were destroyed in the quake. The earthquake not only opened the region up to [...]

Standard & Poor’s revised its foreign currency credit rating on Pakistan to positive from stable on December 28, citing improvements in external debt indicators. The ratings agency affirmed its current ‘B+’ foreign currency and ‘BB’ local currency long-term and its ‘B’ short-term sovereign ratings assigned to Pakistan. “Sharp declines in the government’s external debt indicators [...]