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What happens when the cultures of two countries like Pakistan and America collide? A marriage. The movie, which Zee claims is the first made by a Pakistani-American, centers on arranged marriages, a common practice in South Asia, in which parents pick the wedding partners of their children. In doing so, Zee takes a serious topic, [...]

Gleaming glass and steel mobile phone company offices have sprung up beside run-down tenements in the major cities. A new smart set splashes out its growing income in swanky restaurants and boutiques. The boom is helping to expand the middle class, who are buying cars, houses, refrigerators and air-conditioners through liberalized consumer financing, extended at [...]

The next but not the least was the agreement on establishing a “Confucius Institute” between National University of Modern Languages (NUML) and China’s National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (NOTCFL). Under the agreement Chinese language will be taught in this Institute using a variety of methods including multimedia and the Internet. Teachers [...]

The blustering bonhomie on both sides of the Radcliff line notwithstanding the friendly hand being extended by Ms Huma Parveen, a Pakistani national, to her Indian jail inmates in learning cutting and tailoring has never caught the attention of media. Though women barracks are crowded, the jail authorities have accommodated all 125 women convicts and [...]

The Mekran Coastal Highway, which zigzags from Karachi up to Gwadar along the Arabian Sea and through the hinterland of southern Balochistan, has opened vast vistas of tourism, business and economy in the future economic haven of the country, tour operators said on Saturday. Regarding the surge in number of commuters on Karachi Gwadar route [...]

The General Presidency of Youth Welfare has fielded a Pakistani expatriate in the war against terrorism. His style of spreading the message is simple. He moves around in military fatigues to symbolize his campaign against terror. Armed with messages of support from top government officials and escorted by police, Bakhsh becomes an instant draw wherever [...]

The three girl musicians in the ensemble were coincidentally trained at the same Hachettepe University in Ankara. Although, the piano placed at the auditorium had recently arrived, Sanem played it with masterly interpretation of Chopin’s ballad that was a reflection of the ‘groans, sufferance and outpouring of despair and shock’, reverberating to the great musician’s [...]

Four years ago Aliya Ashid made her way from Pakistan to Bhopal. Her journey across the border was stemmed in a single objective – her passion for music. For this visually challenged girl Dhrupad music was the only guiding light and her hosts, a Jain family, became her guides in the journey. For this girl [...]

The ladies, who work on a volunteer basis for Rah-e-Amal, organised a celebration to commemorate the completion of seven years of a school that had small beginnings but now has two hundred children studying here so that they may improve the quality of life for themselves and their families. Music and song; dance and drama [...]

Ukraine will set up 300 MW coal-fired power plant in Pakistan’s Sindh region at a cost of $600 million. The Sindh Coal Development Authority has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Ukraine’s Ukrinterenergo, The News daily reported Thursday. Under the MoU, the state-owned Ukrinterenergo will transfer technology to Fateh Group of Pakistan to set [...]