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A 34-year old Pakistani living in San Francisco has just completed a feature film that is now ready for release. Hassan Zee, who is 34 years old and an optometrist by profession, will become the first Pakistani to have completed and released a full-length feature film in America when his Night of Henna comes to [...]

The Lahore Museum will borrow artefacts from the Lahore Fort to display at its new Sikh section. The donations include miniature paintings from the Sikh period, featuring the Guler, Kangra and Pahari schools of thoughts and a Quran presented by Raja Ranjeet Singh to one of his ministers. A large collection of coins has also [...]

Pakistan’s main tax collection agency, the Central Board of Revenue, yesterday launched an ambitious four-year reform plan costing $150m (£80m), more than two thirds of which is to be funded by the World Bank. Pakistan has only 1.1m taxpayers from a population of 150m. Analysts say people avoid paying taxes for fear of harassment by [...]

Initial production from Petronas Carigali (Pakistan) Ltd’s joint venture plant at Ghotki, near Sukkur, was 15 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscfd) and would be increased to 70 mmscfd within the next two months, Petronas said in a statement on April 5. It said Petronas Carigali Pakistan was the operator of the Rehmat Field [...]

The man chosen to drive the first bus linking divided Kashmir says his selection for the job was a blessing from God and he is thrilled to be playing a part in history. Raja Pervez Khan, from Azad Kashmir, says he has no long-lost relatives on the Indian side, but he is proud to be [...]

The event served a traditional Pakistani dinner that included chicken curry, a rice dish called ‘palao,’ kabobs and ‘kheer,’ a dessert. Students said they attended the event to enjoy culture with their friends and also to make new friends. The event also featured an audience-participation game in which couples guessed their spouses’ answers to questions. [...]

FOR the first time since independence Pakistan is to have its own car. The country’s only home grown automotive firm, the Adam Motor Company, say the first vehicle will be unveiled in early April and until then the car’s name is a secret. It has however been tested both at Adam’s Port Qasim plant and [...]

A Pakistani newspaper vendor in Paris with a unique selling style has won a book deal to have his life story published. Ali Akbar, who sells copies of Le Monde on the streets of the French capital’s fashionable St Germain des Pres district, arrived in the country as an illegal immigrant more than 30 years [...]

Flying from Delhi to Lahore after a first stop in India, I was surprised to see the plane full of mostly older people, both Indian and Pakistani. They were speaking excitedly in Urdu and Hindi, and in their unifying language, English, about plans to visit long-lost relatives, attend weddings and do business. “Tourism brings emotional [...]

The Pakistani Ambassador to the UAE Syed Qaiser Hussain recently attended a signing ceremony for the establishment of the USD54m National University of Pakistan in Dubai which will be located at the Dubai Academic City. Within five years the campus expects to house 3,500 students, reported Gulf News.