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A year-old peace process has shown real warmth between people of both countries, made cross-border travel easier and raised hopes of permanent peace. More and more families on both sides are looking for love across the barriers. Under the arrangement, brides and grooms in Pakistan, or Pakistani nationals living elsewhere in the world, can post [...]

One of the distinguishing characteristics of any software firm is the choice of business models. NetSol has extended its market reach into nine countries. China and the U.K. are the newest locations. Their newest product is a “bank in a box” suite called inBanking that is being launched in a phased manner. It is built [...]

The BBC World Service has launched a major marketing campaign to support its Urdu programming in Pakistan. The BBC Urdu team will also be visiting ten towns across Pakistan to discuss issues related to its social and current affairs programming, such as its flagship item Sairbeen.

Pakistan launched its first national women’s cricket championship, with organisers hoping the event will inspire up-and-coming female cricketers in the conservative Muslim country. Teams from Lahore, Karachi, Rawalpindi, Multan, Quetta, Hyderabad, Peshawar and Faisalabad are taking part. Four teams will qualify for a so-called super league, with the top two teams contesting the final on [...]

The French literary event of the spring promises to be not the tortured musings of some silk-shirted philosopher but the memoirs of this 52-year-old Pakistani who came to France as an illegal immigrant and is now a hero of the Latin Quarter. Akbar travelled through Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Romania and Sweden before disembarking [...]

The car took 25 minutes for the warm-up and after that thousands of spectators present on both sides of the main Boulevard Gulberg witnessed a spectacle, which they only have seen on a TV screen before. The loud nose of the sports car not only made the spectators to close their ears but the prominent [...]

With her husband out of town, Janet Constantinou decided on the fly to attend a lunch at the home of a friend’s friend. She walked through the crowd of strangers laughing, talking passionately and gesturing boldly, and found herself before a table of plates brimming with Pakistani curries and rice, and heaps of thin brown [...]

Over 300 scientists and mathematical experts from all over the world are expected to participate in the second three-day ‘World Conference on 21st Century Mathematics’ to be held in the city from March 4. Higher Education Commission chairman Dr Attaur Rehman will inaugurate the conference being organized by the School of Mathematical Sciences (SMS) of [...]

PAKISTAN hockey officials have unveiled a blueprint to revive their country’s fortunes, having not won a major tournament since the 1994 World Cup. Pakistan, three-time Olympic and four-time world champion, has remained empty-handed for 11 years since winning the World Cup and the Champions Trophy in the same year. Kirmani said the new plan, which [...]

Vic Ahmed learned how to run a business at the school of hard-knocks: Lahore, Pakistan. The “serial entrepreneur” started his first company right out of college. Born into a family of lawyers, engineers and doctors, Ahmed grew up in a country the size of Texas that is populated with about 140 million people. Ahmed worked [...]