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The Discovery Times Channel’s Sharmeen Obaid, 27, was awarded the prize for international reporting for “Reinventing the Taliban,” a 46-minute documentary about the MMA, a Pakistan-based group similar to the Taliban whose power is growing. The $10,000 prizes go to journalists under the age of 35 and are the largest all-media general-reporting awards in the [...]

Kashi, The ancient city in Xinjiang province on the Old Silk Road yesterday established a border trade market with Pakistan to facilitate business activities between the two sides. The market, covering an area of 1,700 square metres, is located on the Hunqrap Pass near the China-Pakistan border. In partnership with Pakistan, the border trade market [...]

“The only things I knew about Pakistan before I came here were bombing and shooting,” said Japanese tourist Aya Tsutatani over a sumptuous dinner of local delicacies. Their perceptions changed after they joined a group of 11 Japanese tourists visiting the country’s breathtaking northern areas, where four mountain ranges including the Himalaya collide. The figures [...]

Pakistan has increased by 80 per cent the funds it gives the Ministry of Science and Technology each year to spend within the framework of the country’s Public Sector Development Programme. Another US$18.5 million will be used to fund 24 new projects. The plans include setting up laboratories to monitor water quality in 117 districts, [...]

Hycarbex American Energy Inc (Hycarbex Inc), operator of Yasin Block No 2768-7, has made a significant gas discovery just 9 km from Shikarpur in Sindh. Haseeb Well No 1 was drilled to a depth of 1507 metres and, as a result of testing, substantial quality of gas flowed from Sui Main Limestone formation of Eocene [...]

While most college-bound students reach out to their university of choice, for Nomeeta Zaheer of Malden, the University of Massachusetts came to her – with a hefty cash prize in tow. “I got a call one day, and they told me that since I was the top-ranked student at Bunker Hill Community College, I was [...]

Local authorities in Karachi city have started updating records of old buildings and bungalows of Karachi in order to help visitors from neighbouring India to locate their houses which they had abandoned during the partition in 1947. This was revealed by officials in the city district government of Karachi. The idea found root after city [...]

Pakistan’s hottest rock act Junoon will be part of the musical efforts at relieving the poorest countries of the yoke of debts. A huge musical rally ‘Live 8′ has been planned prior to that on July 2 to convince world leaders to end poverty in Africa. Artistes such as Madonna, Mariah Carey and U2 will [...]

A distillery in Pakistan is canvassing suggestions for a name for the Islamic country’s first 18-year-old single malt whisky. Staff at the Murree brewery and distillery in Rawalpindi insist the spirit will be “very smooth and very palatable”. “We already produce malts that are three, eight and 12 years old, and are confident that this [...]

Born in Pakistan in 1966, Mr. Aslam came to England as a teenager when his father, a poet, filmmaker and communist, fled to escape political persecution after Gen. Zia’s takeover. The family landed in a working-class section of Huddersfield in northern England, a provincial backwater, uncelebrated and unsung, a place that might be described as [...]