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Pakistan’s arch-rivals India along with Sri Lanka and possibly Bangladesh will take part in the tournament in Karachi from December 26 to January 4. Cricket has been drawing a growing female fan base in India, while across the border the women’s sport got a shot in the arm earlier this year when it was placed [...]

Pakistan has been declared a visa-free country for a week for members of all relief and rescue teams coming to Pakistan to help the earthquake victims. Officials here said persons planning to come to Pakistan to take part in the relief operation in any form need not worry about visa. The facility is available both [...]

Pakistan’s efforts to recover from the worst natural disaster in its 69-year history is expected to eventually boost its slowing economy and support its currency and stocks. Pakistan’s economic infrastructure of ports, airports, dams, factories, telecommunications, financial system, power plants and refineries has largely been spared, Financial markets were quick to recover from an initial [...]

The Rotary Club of Bukit Bintang has come up with a novel way to raise money for The Star South Asia Quake Fund – giving the public an opportunity to take pictures of several reigning national beauty queens. Miss Malaysia Chinatown International 2005 Winnie Chan and second runner-up April Yong will kick off the fund-raising [...]

A one-day event moderated by historian Ayesha Jalal and entitled ‘Creative voices from Pakistan: a political context’ is it to take place today (Monday) in New York. The event is part of a three panel series, jointly held in association with Aldrich Museum and Yale University. Informed and inspired by the current exhibition, ‘Karkhana,’ which [...]

England’s cricketers will press ahead with their tour of Pakistan later this month despite the earthquake that killed 30,000 people in the country last Saturday. The PCB and ECB are also discussing ways in which the tour can contribute to the relief effort which is already underway. England are scheduled to play three Tests and [...]

It should be the quietest time of year at the slimming clinic in the bustling city of Rawalpindi, Pakistan, but days before Muslims begin their holy fasting month, business is booming. “We have devised special Ramadan packages,” says the centre’s medical advisor Farzana Sadiq. A vendor selling cream and pistachio-filled sweets made specially for the [...]

The inclusion of poems by seven renowned poets of Pakistan in an anthology of poems ‘Men of Our Times’ edited by Fred Moramarco and AI Zolynas and published by Georgia University Press brings a unique recognition to the contemporary stature of Pakistan’s literary scenario. The five English poets from Pakistan included in the anthology are: [...]

Pakistan’s economy is capable of absorbing the devastation caused by Saturday’s magnitude 7.6 earthquake, the strongest in a century, because remote areas were the worst-affected. Pakistan expects growth of 7 percent this year as the government continues its effort to attract investment through privatization and liberalization. Pakistan’s benchmark Karachi Stock Exchange has gained 32 percent [...]

Henna producers have popstars like Madonna and Sting to thank for making the tradition a part of America’s mainstream culture. But for Muslims, the dye, which is a pigment made from a plant native to the Middle East and especially Pakistan, has been an age-old tradition dating back centuries, when women used henna for ritual [...]