Page 155

The annual growth of the manufacturing and industrial sector has significantly increased by 130 % during 2003-04 against the target of 7 % fixed for the last fiscal. According to sources the government had fixed manufacturing growth target of 7 % for the last fiscal but the country has not only achieved the target but [...]

This is reference to the article by Richard Bulliet “Worry about Pakistan, not Iran.” Having lived in and loved both Pakistan and Iran, I can safely say that some of the writers assertions were based on blatant untruths, concocted deliberately to defame Pakistan. It seems to me that the only political pawn for people like [...]

The scars around her eyes were visible even before the young Pakistani woman lifted her veil, showing TV viewers the burns suffered when her husband doused her with kerosene and set her on fire. Such a spectacle until recently would have been too shocking for Pakistani television. But two private cable-TV channels — one beamed [...]

Nursing bandaged, frostbitten feet, Edurne Pasaban has just joined the ranks of the international mountaineering circuit’s elite. On Monday, the slim 30-year-old from Spain became only the sixth woman to reach the the peak of K2, the world’s second highest mountain. The other five are all dead. They either died during the descent, like Britain’s [...]

Tom Slone sees the South Asian nation of Pakistan as a virtually untapped opportunity, not a risky place to locate his fledgling Fort Worth company’s only outsourcing call center, which he quietly did last summer. “Pakistan is a hidden gem, a hidden jewel,” enthused Slone, 62, chairman of Touchstone Communications, which he co-founded after working [...]

Even though no new ground was broken on the festering Jammu and Kashmir dispute, India and Pakistan took some steps on Monday to inject confidence in each other and resolved to take the peace process forward ‘in an atmosphere free from terrorism and violence”. The confidence-building measures included immediate restoration of the strengths of their [...]

Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer is given a free hand by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), he believes his team will acquire the status of world-beaters in next to no time. Talking to reporters here a day after Pakistan defeated India by 60 runs, Woolmer was quite emphatic in saying that had it not been [...]

It’s not quite as high as Mount Everest, but it’s been about three times as dangerous to conquer. And on Monday, an Italian marked the 50th anniversary of his grandfather’s first successful climb of K-2 by summiting the mountain. Italians Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni first scaled K-2, the world’s second-highest mountain, on July 31, [...]

It may be a first for the city of Jersey. A Pakistani was sworn in as the area’s deputy mayor on Monday. Agha Afzal, who was sworn in at the city hall, took his oath of office on the Holy Quran…

JUST when talks about increasing cultural exchange between India and Pakistan is picking up pace, a Vadodara girl visited the neighbouring country to take part in a week-long leadership interaction meet with the youths of Karachi. And the sparkle in Nausheen Rahimi’s eyes, as she talks about the visit, assures she will not forget the [...]