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The artist is indeed a lyrical colourist and blends her colours in a very surrealistic fashion. There’s a profusion of orange in her works, reflective of the setting sun and its dying embers as the day disappears into eternity. Her colours carry a spiritual significance. She shapes her letters in the Kufic style, with geometrical [...]

Also in the news today… 35 Indian publishers to Lahore Book Fair Canadian Co To Invest US$500 MLN To Set-Up Wind Farm In Pakistan Instaphone further reduces SMS charges in Pakistan Norway Firm to Build Over 100 Satellite Offices in Pakistan Cisco, Gul Ahmed install first IP telephony network in Pakistan

Two motorcycles collide, Ben Hur style, spilling four lads out across the roadway, slick with gray water. They pick themselves up, brush off their clothes, pull fenders and other peripherals back into place, then speed away. Not one harsh word is exchanged. Nor is there a single helmet among the lot of them. Welcome to [...]

The five-member team of the Debating Society of Pakistan (DPS) took third place in the World Schools Debating Championships (WSDC) 2005. Teams from 31 countries contested the tournament. Australia stood first while England came second. The Pakistani team also achieved first position in a regional tournament held in Canada. This is the first time after [...]

First ever Pakistani car is all set to roll out for commercial sale in the last week of March or first week of April this year with more than 70 per cent indigenised parts. Initially, it was driven from Karachi to Ormara in 43 degree Celsius, then from Karachi to Peshawar once via Lahore and [...]

The first solo exhibition of young sculptor-cum-painter, Abdul Jabbar Gul, opened here at Nomad Gallery on Tuesday. As many as 30 wooden sculptures, 20 paintings , some in oil on canvas and a few on colour wash, have been put on display. Some of his art pieces have serene quality such as the sculpture named [...]

Also an actor, Tevana is currently on a promotional tour across the South Asian Sub-Continent and the Middle East and the single launched it’s airplay there today, coinciding with Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. John McCain’s visit to the region, on City FM 89, Pakistan’s first radio station primarily focused on Western and English music. [...]

Over 300 members of the Cornell and Ithaca community attended “My Big Fat Pakistani Wedding,” an event sponsored by the Pakistani Students Association (PSA). PSA president Saleem Malkana ’06 said he hoped that presenting a mock wedding, complete with dinner, dancing and a professional mehndi artist, would be “the best way” to portray Pakistani culture. [...]

Rahman Baba is the Pashtuns’ most revered poet. Pashtun culture has suffered over the past few years with its link to the Taleban and Osama bin Laden. But that image may soon be revised with the efforts of two English teachers, Robert Sampson and Momin Khan Jaja, based in Pakistan’s North-Western Frontier Province. Working tirelessly [...]

The biggest women’s colleges of India and Pakistan have started a student exchange programme aimed at boosting ties among a new generation after decades of hostility between the two countries. The Lady Sriram College (LSR) in New Delhi and Lahore’s Kinnaird College have joined hands to give students learning journalism and mass communication a chance [...]