Sindh Begins Massive Indus Dolphins Rescue
The Sindh Wildlife Department is launching a massive rescue and relocation operation on Friday for the Indus dolphins that strayed into different canals during monsoon. According to sources, at least 12 such dolphins have been located after getting stranded in different canals originating from Sukkur Barrage. According to sources, the dolphins usually stray into various [...]
Continue reading »Pakistan Enters Rugby Arena
Pakistan completed its first national rugby championships yesterday amid hopes that the sport will get a boost in the country over the next few years. “It is a proud moment for us,” said Aamir Raza, secretary of the Rugby Union of Pakistan, after six teams contested the week-long championship. “We hope that after getting International [...]
Continue reading »Pakistani Doctor Performs First Disc Replacement in America
Bajwa returns to the operating room today at Wilson to implant the artificial disc, known as Charite, in a fourth patient who traveled around the world for the procedure. The patient is a native of Bajwa’s homeland, Pakistan. There, the Southern New York Neurosurgical Group physician has become somewhat of a medical celebrity. After a [...]
Continue reading »Pakistani Owned British Airline Set to Fly
The Jeffrey International Group of UK has announced commercial air operation for Pakistan. The first maiden flight of Global Spirit Airlines will land in Islamabad on July 6, 2005. Global Spirit Airlines will be one of two western airlines to Pakistan and the first ever-British Pakistani airline created, he said. It will also be the [...]
Continue reading »Pakistan Mutual Funds Soaring to New Heights
A three-year bull run in the Pakistani stock market has encouraged local asset managers to launch the first batch of capital guaranteed mutual funds to draw retail investors. United Asset Management Co., a unit of United Bank Ltd., the country’s fourth biggest bank, plans to launch a closed-end three-year fund in the first half of [...]
Continue reading »First Private Wireless Telephone Service Launched
Pakistan entered into a new phase of modern telecommunication technology with the operation of wireless local loop telephone service (WLL) in the private sector. He said that with the introduction of WLL service, the disparity between the Urban and Rural areas will no more be there and fade out in the next 2-3 years. However, [...]
Continue reading »Over a Thousand Register for Lahore Marathon
Over 1300 competitors including some world-class athletes from abroad have been registered to participate in the Standard Chartered Lahore Marathon to be held here on January 30. The marathon, duly recognised and supported by AIMS (the international body of marathons), is to become an annual event in the historic city of Lahore. ‘The marathon will [...]
Continue reading »Businesses Ready For Biggest Ever Event in Karachi
Pakistan is organising the first ever mega event to showcase Pakistani products for global markets from February 2-5 in Karachi. The Expo Pakistan-2005 will be the largest-ever international commercial event in Pakistan with the goal to exhibit products of five to six hundred exporters of Pakistani goods and services. Over one thousand exporters, importers, investors, [...]
Continue reading »Work Starts on Five World-Standard Gymnasiums in Karachi
Work on building five multi-purpose, international-standard indoor gymnasiums, each especially designed for boxing, is now almost simultaneously in progress across the country after the ground- breaking of last such project in Karachi on Monday. Brig Arif Mahmud Siddiqui, Director General, Pakistan Sports Board, performed the ground-breaking of Indoor Gymnasium at PSB Coaching Centre, Karachi. The [...]
Continue reading »Bankers Spicing Up Pakistan’s Domestic Cricket
The vision is lofty – to make domestic cricket a popular spectator sport in Pakistan. Plenty of right noises were made at the press conference: mission statements, re-branding, and consumer-reaction models were bandied about with the same liberal abandon Pakistani bowlers display towards no-balls. Regional teams have been renamed – Peshawar become the Panthers, Hyderabad [...]
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