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Getting from Norway to Pakistan is not easy. You could just call, of course, but it might be more fun to drive. Telenor, the Oslo-based telecommunications company, decided to do both in introducing a cellphone service in Pakistan last week: To promote the occasion, it used a television commercial that looks more like a sped-up [...]

Team- A, plans to open a range of Mothercare stores in all major cities of Pakistan, including Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Faisalabad and Sailkot. The first store is scheduled to open in Karachi next month. The conducive investment atmosphere with changing political situation is providing level playing field to do the business in this part of [...]

ALLIANCE Francaise de Lahore (French Centre), Qatar Airways and Nestle are organising a concert of swing jazz with the renowned jazz group Trio Natchav Saturday (today) at Alliance Française. The group Natchav Trio was formed around the swing jazz. Charles Guilbaud on the double bass joined the two guitarists Gerald Toumelin and David Vergnaud to [...]

The Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Pakistan’s Telecom sector has surpassed $1 billion mark during the last eight months of current financial year to clinch the second coveted position after oil and gas sector in this respect. Presently, five mobile companies, four foreign and one state-run, are in operation in the country, while even this [...]

Sabiha Sumar is happy to see her Pakistani film released in North America, but even if it became a Hollywood blockbuster, that wouldn’t be as important to her as seeing it screened in the villages of her home country. In our media-jacked culture, it’s almost impossible to imagine that an entire generation of Pakistanis has, [...]

When Haji Abdul Qudoos first arrived in Bahrain in 1959, he earned just BD60 a month working in a bank. Now he is an established businessman, who believes the key to his success has been a combination of hard work and a commitment to the community and charitable activities. Mr Qudoos was the first Pakistani [...]

The festival has been organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature Pakistan in collaboration with the Forum of Environment Journalist Pakistan and TVE Asia Pacific. It was attended by a large number of people, especially students, who keenly watched the thought-provoking environmental films, both in English and Urdu. Based on theme “Vision of Nature” [...]

Malaysia plans to recruit 100,000 male Pakistanis to relieve an acute labour shortage caused by a crackdown that sent hundreds of thousands of illegal workers fleeing, reports said. The government’s decision came amid fears that the labour crunch, which led to industry losses running into hundreds of millions of dollars, could further aggravate a slowdown [...]

Zainul Wahab is a renowned scholar on various archaeological sites and historical periods, particularly of Greek culture in the NWFP. He has not only established the Mardan Museum in 1990 but also worked on various sites, including Alexander’s route, excavation at Gangoder (Hund), and establishment of the Alexander Monument at Hund (Swabi). He recovered extremely [...]

The first jeep rally was begun in Cholistan on Wednesday participated by 76 jeep drivers. The jeep rally in the desert was being launched to introduce Pakistani drivers with the international driving standards, organizers said. People from all walks of life participating in the rally, as hundreds of sports’ lovers arrived here to watch the [...]