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A new three part mini-series to hit British newsagents last Tuesday, features Ali as a trendy teenager with Sofia, his bride-to-be, as a partner in crime. As a British Asian, Ali finds in difficult to relate to his families traditions and customs. However he feels much better when he finds that Sofia, who he is [...]

Mansoora’s ongoing conceptual photographic video projects, ‘The Black Burqa: 9/11′, ‘Afghan Burqa: Begging for Peace’ and ‘Bound/Unbound’ depict the current global landscape. The artist uses the projects to take apart stereotypes. These are not comfortable works and are fraught with unanswered questions, said Saleema Hashmi, a former National College of Arts principal. Mansoora, who was [...]

Outsourcing business in the country through IT-enabled services has crossed over $10 million mark with rapid growth of call centres and operators are optimistic to touch $20 million figures by the fiscal end. Country’s IT industry made comeback last year – first time after 9/11 incident – when the software export touched $32.22 million, which [...]

The excavations carried out at Mehrgarh have proved that the site represents a highly developed civilization that existed there until around 8,000 years ago, according to a French archaeologist. The mission has been doing exploratory work in Balochistan for nearly three-and-a-half decades. He said that Mehrgarh and its associated sites provided irrevocable evidence of considerable [...]

Total car production increased by 23 percent during the first seven months of current fiscal year to 64,203 units as compared to 52,267 units during the same period last year. Whereas sales of cars recorded a surge of 26 percent to reach 65,803 units in July-January 2004-05 as compared to 52,302 units during the corresponding [...]

It is only a bus, but it gives a tired-looking peace process a burst of life. AT LAST, what looks like a breakthrough in the long quest for peace by India and Pakistan. Optimists believe that the opening of the roads linking the two halves of Kashmir could be the bond that keeps the peace. [...]

Fast-moving Pakistan has stolen a march on India in civil aviation by announcing the deployment of the world’s longest range commercial airplane, the Boeing 777-200LR Worldliner, which can fly non-stop from the United States to virtually any city in Asia. The plane was unveiled on Tuesday at the Boeing plant in Everett, Washington, before a [...]

Airblue has become the first private sector airline in Pakistan to start operation on socio-economic routes with commencement of Karachi-Nawabshah-Karachi flights from February 26. The Air Blue is also introducing Karachi-Quetta-Karachi route from February 28. With flights to these two destinations, the airline domestic network will stand expanded to six as it is already operating [...]

Starting today, an exhibition called Beyond Borders: Art of Pakistan, will be on display at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai. The NGMA along with the Young President’s Organisation has brought together more than 150 works that comprises sculptures, installations, paintings and video art. Artist Naiza Khan, one of the artists who is [...]

The huge share volume figure reflects that the market has pulled itself out from the state of uncertainty on the strength of all-round buying, leaving far behind the lean period when the single session volume has dropped to all-time low of 15.141m shares on Sept 3, 2001. The index finally finished around 7,508.80 points as [...]