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Feroze Khan believes his future was already determined when his homeless mother gave birth to him on a car porch. More than half a century later, he has launched Pakistan’s first home-grown automobile – Revo from his Adam Motor Company Ltd. The compact, five-door 800cc model has made a splash on the roads of Karachi [...]

North Nazimabad Town enjoys the reputation of being the most literate town of the country, as out of its 700,000 population more than 90 percent are educated and compared with other towns of Karachi it is well developed. In the early Sixties when Karachi was the capital of Pakistan, North Nazimabad was initially selected for [...]

The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has achieved the status of fastest growing IT organisation by virtue of adopting most modern technology and managed to find significant a place among top 50 e-passport technology supplier companies of the world. There are 32 companies from Europe, 11 from USA, four from UK, one from Japan [...]

The Pakistan chapter of the UK-based international NGO, Oxfam, has recently begun broadcasting a radio series aimed at raising public awareness of honour killings. Oxfam aims to reduce social acceptance of such killings through a six-year campaign aiming at significantly reducing the number of women killed under the banner of ‘honour’. The twenty-minute programme series, [...]

By nominating renowned Sindhi writer and intellectual Sobho Gayan Chandani for Kamal-e-Funn Award 2004, the Pakistan Academy of Letters has taken the initiative to recognise the lifetime literary achievement of a regional language writer for the first time and set an example of promoting the spirit of literary harmony between all regional languages of Pakistan. [...]

It will be a close encounter of a new kind. Women police officials will soon join their male colleagues at important intersections in the capital to deal with traffic problems faced by motorists. It will be the first ever experiment in the country to authorise women police officials to run the traffic rule show. When [...]

An eight-member team from Pakistan will take part in the World Cyber Games (WCG) for the very first time. 72 countries are participating in the event to be held in Singapore in November this year. Mamoor said the preliminary rounds for the selection of the Pakistan team would be conducted in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. [...]

Poetry dominated the Adabi Chaupal held under the aegis of Arbab-i-Adab on Thursday as only one short story came up for discussion. The short story read out by Rahman Nishat was about a fugitive who assumed the role of a malang. The organizers of the literary sitting and the compere, poets Pervin Javed and Nasim [...]

A partially sighted student from Pakistan studying at the University of Bristol has been crowned ‘International Student of the Year 2005′ by the British Council. Muzzamil Lakhani, 22, was selected from twelve finalists to receive the top Gold Award and £2,000 in prize money. His severe visual impairment meant he was unable to walk even [...]

Karachi is probably the youngest of its kind on the world’s cosmopolitan map with a history of not more than 200 years, but it has its own myths although its cultural and ethnic configuration has entirely changed. A sizable part of the two localities that begins from Sarrafa Bazaar (jewellery market) in the east and [...]