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Perhaps the least surprised person in Canada after last month’s federal election was Wajid Khan. Polls had the Liberals and Conservatives locked in a dead heat. So did Khan’s experienced Liberal handlers in Mississauga-Streetsville, who feared he might even lose to his veteran Conservative opponent. But the 58-year-old political rookie barely broke a sweat as [...]

A newly formed group called “Buniyad” (Foundation) along with the KaraFilm Society put together “Karachi Kamera,” a viewing of “Short Films from Pakistan” in San Francisco. Included in this June 25 program at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco was an interesting beginning film, which asked a number of (non-South Asian) people on the [...]

Pakistan’s fashion models are slowly managing to crawl on to international catwalks and into overseas magazines. But hidden behind the kohl-rimmed eyes and the perfectly plastered smiles are women who are paying a heavy price for stepping into designer stilettos.

Finnish mobile phone company Nokia says it has signed a deal with Norwegian firm Telenor to set up and run a mobile telephone network in Pakistan. The company said the network would be operational by the first half of next year, and would initially cover northern and central Punjab.

Central Board of Revenue is setting up a web-based centralized complaint center for redressing complaints of taxpayers…

UK-based company, Deighton International has been awarded the contract to develop and operate Pakistan’s first theme park. The City District Government of Karachi chose the leisure and tourism planning, development and operation specialist over other shortlisted tenders from the US and the Middle East. Costing more than US$200m (£108m), the Karachi Beach theme park will [...]

ITCN Asia, a three-day International Exhibition & Conference will be held from August 9 to 11, 2004 at Karachi Expo Centre for the fourth consecutive year which is being organized by Ministry of Investment and Privatization in collaboration with Ministry of IT & Telecom; Government of Sindh, City District Government Karachi; Commerce Net, Singapore; Jamal’s [...]

Pakistan has been formally accepted as a member of a key Asian security forum after India dropped its opposition. The 24-member Asean Regional Forum (ARF), which includes all the world’s major powers, is holding its annual meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia. Delhi dropped its objections after Islamabad agreed not to raise bilateral issues in the forum. [...]

Many would scoff at the idea of launching an “e-museum” in Pakistan, where national museums are constantly derided for their low numbers of visitors. “They have got to be kidding,” says artist Qaiser Khan. “Just how many hits do you think they’re going to get?” The e-museum, the first of its kind in Pakistan, hopes [...]

“Earlier this year, Sony Pictures got in touch with us and said they wanted to include one of our Urdu songs,” band member Faisal Kapadia told IANS. “This happened when we had just signed a deal for an album with Sony Music in India, which is the official licensee of Columbia Records that released the [...]