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Bridgettes stole the limelight in women trials to select the team to represent Pakistan in the BFAME Zonal Bridge Championship to be held in Bangladesh later this year.Bridgettes, comprising Rehana Saigol, Zeenat Azwer, Samia Rasheed, Sheerin Bokhari, Abeda Ali and Shahnaz Peerzada, earned the right of representing Pakistan by winning the trials which concluded here [...]

While Iranian coach Safee has taken eleven karatikaz to Iran on a training tour, four coaches – Sengli from China, Tarik Lutfee from Egypt and Won and Soe, both from South Korea – are hectically administering the training of the athletes for the mega event. Pakistan are scheduled to participate in 11 of the 15 [...]

The appetite for reality TV in Pakistan is growing with networks like Geo TV and PTV both joining the party in recent weeks, the latter with a format acquired from UK indie Zeal Television. Zeal’s Dubai office is in production on the advertiser-sponsored talent show Sunsilk 21st Century Woman (13×60′), a primetime series being coproduced [...]

Karachi – 39-k block 6 – P.E.C.H.S. – Sometimes you will see a white light glowing at night.? Also people have reported seeing a very pale women wearing a white dress walk around for about a minute then disappear at about 3:00 in the morning, it has also been said that this lady had been [...]

The course of true love never did run smooth, and between sub-continental siblings, India and Pakistan, the bard’s words never rang truer. Buffalo, you ask, with that slightly curled lip. Not if you are in Haryana or Punjab (on either side of the border), where the true worth of such animals is well appreciated. Doubtless, [...]

The book, edited by James Spain, is packed with some interesting historical facts and the authors struggle to help his countrymen attain a respectable position among the comity of free nations by dispelling their conviction that their “fate on earth is predestined to commonplace existence”. He writes: “Nowadays, the Quaid-i-Azam has been raised to the [...]

The exhibition has been organised by the British Council in collaboration with Kodak Ltd. The aim of the workshop is to introduce digital photography to photojournalists in the process of learning the art of digital photography. A total of 41 images selected to from the digital photography exhibition were put on display at the gallery. [...]

Why all the attention for the 27-year-old British-born Pakistani comic? The answer is obvious once you meet her. The world’s premier Muslim comedienne, Britain’s Shazia Mirza, is making her Berkshire debut performing her stand-up act “The Last Temptation of Mirza,” which highlights her unique experience as an observant Muslim woman and comic. Presented by the [...]

Pakistan has been made a full member – 87th – of the International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) and invited to attend its next world conference scheduled to be held on July 5 at Merida, Mexico. Six students of O and A levels and FA/FSc selected from about 1,000 students from all over the country will participate [...]

The World Organisation of Martial Arts (WOMA)-Pakistan executive council organised a two-day martial arts training seminar here last week, in collaboration with the Pakistan Nagamin Martial Arts Organisation and Pakistan Taekwondo Council. Grand Master Zahoor Baig Rehmani, 10th Dan Soke, explained and demonstrated the core concept of inhaling and exhaling of breathing and yelling techniques [...]