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When it comes to Pakistan, the image belies the reality, and seeing is believing. From the shadows of a misplaced image has emerged an innovative strategy that seems to do the trick. This might just be the right kind of break the country’s software industry needs from its rather lackluster past. Pakistan is fast becoming [...]

Soon after Dr. Jamil Ahmed stood before TV cameras two weeks ago and told how his brain-injured patient had snapped out of a stupor lasting almost 10 years, the telephone calls and e-mails started pouring in. Everybody wants a word with Ahmed, 43, who’s just three years removed from his residency training in Boston after [...]

Pakistan’s privatisation commission embarked on the most ambitious month in its history when it opened the seals on bids at the weekend for the privatisation of Pak Arab Fertilizer company, the largest fertiliser complex in the country. This marked the start of a hectic period in which Pakistan hopes to raise Rps100bn ($1.68bn, €1.33bn, £910m) [...]

Lahore will shortly have a sprawling new town to be developed by an Abu Dhabi based construction firm across the river Ravi in the northwest of the city… a freshwater lake would also be part of the project, the model of which was being prepared at the Nandipur research centre…

The students at the National College of Arts‘ (NCA) Film and TV Department have made short documentaries on noted personalities of the Walled City as their first assignment at the new department. The department, the only one of its kind in Pakistan, was established in January this year and enrolled 16 students selected from all [...]

Pakistani bombshell Meera says she’s improved Indo-Pak ties. Meera, who says she’s 23, regards herself as a ”token of love, friendship and peace between the two countries.” India, has given her so much love that ”I cried for three hours in Kanpur recently where they gave me the Aman-e-Carvan award,” she says. Declaring herself to [...]

Korah Baghat, a 27-year-old resident of a remote village in Cholistan, describes Lahore as a ‘wonderland’. ‘The folks of this city are wonderful people. They shook hands with me, embraced me, sat with me on the ground, shared food and water with me in one pot,’ “The people don’t buy vegetables from us. They prefer [...]

The path to Pakistan’s full dialogue partnership with Asean is beginning to clear up with four member countries visited by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz the past week expressing support to the bid. Asean also has dialogue partners that include China, Japan, South Korea, Russia, the United States, Australia, Canada, the European Union, India, New Zealand. [...]

A 19-year old Pakistani student, Owais M Idris, has been declared the youngest-ever graduate of the University of Michigan Flint, USA. Owais Idris who hails from Karachi, was prominent among 476 fellow graduates at a graduation ceremony held at Perani Arena. Idris was born in Pakistan and later moved to Canada before his father, Mohammad [...]

Mehro Abbas and Zile Huma started their job last week and are serving on route number 33 of the bus service. Four more girls are under training and will soon begin working. The company plans on recruiting a total of 60 girls. Abbas and Huma, both aged 20, are not only confident about the job, [...]