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Printing ink, etching ink, metallic powder, acrylic paints, hand-made papers are some of the techniques Saadia Zaman use to produce her beautiful calligraphy. Her passion for Islamic calligraphy and her attention to details form the basis of her beautiful art. Saadia has produced a lot of work by commission for corporate headquarters, hotels, resorts and [...]

Though this is her first solo exhibition in Islamabad, Asma exhibited her works for the first time while being stationed in Saudi Arabia in 2000. Asma told ‘The News’ that it was a memorable experience for her as she displayed her paintings at an exhibition organised on the behest of the Crown Prince to display [...]

”Way back in 1972, I spent six months in Mumbai, often sleeping on the footpath,” says Mohammed Farooq Memon Fariya. The burly 52-year-old is the nazim or town administrator of Saddar in Karachi. For six months, Fariya roamed the streets, ate roadside food from Pydhonie stalls and did odd jobs. Finally, Fariya got permission to [...]

The rally was held to raise money for students in Pakistan. When Col. Joe Sokol, 75th Air Base Wing vice commander, who recently returned from a deployment there, learned about their education problems, he knew who he could turn to get the students the help they needed. “The students were very happy,” he said. “The [...]

For the first time Pakistan’s foreign trade is expected to hit $33 billion mark in the current financial year. In comparison with financial year 2003-04 the foreign trade of the country in 2004-05 is likely to expand by 5.3 billion dollars. In 2003-04 the total foreign trade of Pakistan amounted to 27.91 billion dollars. Unprecedented [...]

Arfa Karim of Multan has made the nation proud by becoming the youngest ‘Microsoft Certified Professional’ (MCP) in the country, at the age of nine years, and one of only a few certified professionals in the world who are below the age of ten years. The talented child was recently honoured for her proud achievements [...]

The cultural troupe prefaced their performance with a dance based on a song by the national poet of Bangladesh, Kazi Nazrul Islam. They also performed folk dances and sang songs. Gazi Abdul Hakim mesmerized the audience with a brilliant flute recital. Using three types of flute, he played Raag Bhopali and a couple of folk [...]

A novel hailed as finding “shimmering love” among the bigotries and injustices of the Asian area of an English town yesterday won a share of a £16,000 international literary prize. Maps for Lost Lovers, which took Nadeem Aslam 11 years to write, was declared in San Francisco as joint winner of the annual Kiriyama award, [...]

These lessons are based on the experiences of a Texas firm that built its own call center facility in Islamabad, Pakistan. In early 2005, this Fort Worth company’s offshore facility became the first call center to make a profit in Pakistan. Touchstone saw that if they were to be successful, then they needed to create [...]

Twenty20 cricket is all set to venture into Asia for the first time when Leicestershire County Cricket Club plays a Pakistan Cricket Board XI on April 1 in Lahore. Leicestershire, who recently completed a tour of India, are slated to contest in a three-day match in Lahore, a one-day match in Sheikhupura, and a Twenty20 [...]