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After bus diplomacy, it is bonding time for B-schools across the border. And with a cricketing icon of the subcontinent throwing his weight behind the initiative, the endeavour can only pick up pace. To explore Pakistan beyond the campus, the team trooped into the famed Food Street and Anarkali of Lahore and visited some historical [...]

The Vancouver-based junior oil and gas explorer said Wednesday it had signed a memorandum of agreement with Pakistan’s national oil company to develop the Toot field in Punjab Province, near the capital city of Islamabad. The Toot area is one of the oldest oil producing regions in Pakistan with the first well drilled in 1964.

The number of cellular phone subscribers has reached 7.9 million by December 2004 with 5.14 per cent teledensity, surpassing current fixed line teledensity which is 3.13 per cent. They said there were only 0.2 million mobile phone subscribers across the country in 1999, but with the introduction of various measures in cellular sector by PTA, [...]

Indicating a thaw in bilateral relations, Pakistan participated for the first time in the 92-year-old Indian Science Congress, being held in Ahmedabad. The four-member Pakistani delegation will be presenting three papers in the congress, Dr Anwar Nasim, chairman of the Pakistan’s National Commission on Biotechnology and a member of the delegation, told reporters in Ahmedabad…

The Sindh culture department would establish a “Sindh Village” depicting the culture of the province, he said, adding that the visitors could witness different workers of traditional handicrafts working practically in this Sindh Village. In Agriculture Village different crops, plants, flowers and other things related to agriculture and horticulture would be presented. The Pakistan Navy [...]

Thesis displays by fourth year students from the Fine Arts, Design and Architecture departments of the National College of Arts (NCA) concluded on Tuesday. The college was a hub of activity as students, their relatives, teachers and other art connoisseurs turned up in great numbers for the last day of the show.

The U.S. administration has earmarked 75 million dollars under the Full Bright Scholarship Scheme exclusively for the Pakistani students to get state-of-the art exposure and higher educational credentials at the renowned universities of the United States in the field of advanced science and technical education. The ambassador further said that US would further provide the [...]

Dispelling a common perception that women in Pakistan are not professionally employed and are restricted by their religious beliefs, a Pakistan-based lawyer today said more and more women are active in various fields. Nearly 40,000 women are working across Pakistan as councillors alone and there are women in every field including law and banking with [...]

Bhatti oversees a residential program to help recently released prisoners adjust to life outside prison. The program lasts 10 months and currently has 13 residents, but over the last four years it’s had about 190 participants, all of them male. During the first five months in the program, residents promise not to take jobs, but [...]

This would be a unique opportunity of interaction for talented students and young scientists of the country with 40 Nobel laureates and about 600 fellow participants from over 30 countries in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Medicine. The facility would be provided only to Pakistani nationals, studying or working in public and private [...]