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Food, not ambience, is the focus at Lasani, though there are red kilims — traditional woven rugs on the walls, and a few pieces of handicraft decorating the place. Jilani, a graduate in business management from the University of Los Angeles in the US, intends to provide ‘quality Mughlai food, superb taste and good service’. [...]

They call it the “game of kings” but surely only the most courageous sovereign would dare to brave the annual polo tournament in Pakistan’s northern mountains. Every year the teams from Gilgit and Chitral meet mid-way at Shandur, a spectacular natural arena ringed by snow-sprinkled peaks that is the world’s highest polo ground. The best [...]

Pakistan is rich in minerals and offers: Ruby, emerald, tourmaline, garnet (pyrope, almandine, rhodolite, demantoid, spessartite, and hessonite), topaz, peridot, aquamarine, spinel, pargasite, diopside, moonstone, serpentine jade, epidote, pink beryl (morganite), purple beryl, sphene, zoisite, lapis lazuli, turquoise, kunzite and almost all known varieties of quartz. One encouraging sign is that efforts are underway to [...]

The four-day expedition will take place in the third week of August and will cover some northern areas of Pakistan. Pakistan is endowed with a collection of high mountains having 720 peaks above 6,000 metres with 162 peaks above 7,000 metres and five above 8,000 metres, including the second tallest mountain — Chogori — the [...]

The hospitality and friendship exhibited by the villagers of Dhaliwal was unbelievable. We were treated like royalty. So many children gathered around us that I became a street magician and amused them by showing them tricks with coins and balls that I always carry in my pocket. We were greatly touched by the regard and [...]

Abbasi—whose earlier releases paint him as a swinging modernist in the John Scofield mode—was born in Karachi, Pakistan. Snake Charmer, the band, pays tribute to its leader’s roots in several different ways. The South Asian influences are reflected in more than Abbasi’s occasional use of the electric sitar: his wife, Ontario-raised Kiran Ahluwalia, brings her [...]

From being heralded as Asia’s biggest rock act that redefined Sufi rock, Junoon has come a long way. The band that was applauded by U2′s Bono for their efforts at propagating world peace, is finally taking a break, what with all its members concentrating on their solo careers. Salman Ahmed shifted base to USA as [...]

The sale of mineral water has registered on average 200 percent annual growth in the past five years in Pakistan, where the middle class is also in a rush to join the corporate style of living which still provides 60 percent revenue to water selling companies and encourages them to maximise commercialisation of drinking water. [...]

Pakistan is scrambling to cope with a dramatic increase in demand for cars that has driven waiting periods for new buyers to as long as five months. From today the government is to slash import duties on used cars, with returning Pakistani expatriates benefitting from a reduction in duty of up to 48 per cent [...]

IF national pride has anything to do with it soccer could become the rising sporting phenomena in Pakistan. Fans all over the country are celebrating their unfancied national side’s narrow win in the first ever soccer ‘test’ against India. India started clear favourites in the three match series. They are ranked 125th in the world [...]