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The first group of 31 passengers arrived from Pakistan’s side of the province at 2 p.m., walking across a 220-foot steel bridge, where they were mobbed by Indian officials and soldiers bearing gifts, sweets and garlands of marigolds. One of the Kashmiri passengers knelt to kiss the asphalt. Some wept. The bus service established the [...]

The Dubai-headquartered Geo TV, flagship channel of the Pakistan-based Jang group of media companies, has decided to shift from a single channel entity to being a full fledged network. On the agenda, is the launch of ten channels dealing in all genres. The ten being general entertainment, news, youth, lifestyle, music, kids, sports, movies, and [...]

Pakistani rice is expected to enter into Chinese market by June 2005 as the two countries signed a protocol and exporters see the Asian country as largest single buyer of the Pakistani varieties, which could double country’s rice export figures. China, world’s biggest consumer of rice, agreed to buy rice from Pakistan following consent to [...]

The festival is being organised by the Delhi government, central culture ministry, Municipal Corporation of Delhi and NGO Seher. In the list of performers from Pakistan are Sufi maestro Iqbal Bahu, a descendant of Sufi saint Sultan Bahu, Krishna Lal Bheel, Fareed Ayaz Al Hussaini and the Sufiana qawwali brothers. The prominent Indian artistes include [...]

Pakistan cricket team’s most celebrated fan, Abdul Jalil, won hearts through his message of love at the steel city that is preparing to host the third India-Pakistan One Day International (ODI) Saturday. A resident of Sialkot, Jalil first came to India March 7 for the first Test match at Mohali. He went on to cheer [...]

Declaring Karachi and Chicago twin cities was something that was being contemplated for a long time and was initiated in 2000, but was not implemented. The proposal to bring Karachi in line with international cities were put forward by President Musharraf during his visit to Chicago Pakistani-Americans are on the staff of several Chicago hospitals [...]

The Agro Tractors (Pvt) Ltd (ATL) has signed an agreement with John Deere, the US-based world leader in agriculture industry, for assembling and progressive manufacturing of tractors in Pakistan. ‘The tractors would be state of the art and technologically more advanced in every department than locally produced models offered in Pakistan,’ said Gibran Khan and [...]

Usman Sarfraz, a resident of Lahore has gone ahead and done just that. He has purchased a car registration number, LZL-1, for Rs 400,000 at an auction organised by the Excise and Taxation Department. The department auctioned popular car registration numbers, 1 to 9, 10 to 99, 100, 111, 222, 333, 444, 555, 666, 777, [...]

So when friends and family lavished him with compliments about his culinary skills and suggested he and wife Rukshana open up a restaurant, the Pakistan-born Corona resident decided he would do just that. The couple married 21 years ago in Pakistan, a union arranged by family, as was the custom. Khalid was born in Multan [...]

Computer Associates (CA), an international management software company on Tuesday announced its plan to set up business in Pakistan as part of its regional expansion strategy. Country manager of CA for Pakistan Saeid Marashi, addressing a press conference at local hotel said that the CA would establish a liaison office for its operations in Pakistan. [...]