Page 94

An exhibition of sculptures titled ‘Ordinary Souls’ by Karachi based artist Abdul Jabbar Gul opened at Ijaz Gallery on Monday. More than a hundred art pieces were put on display, with prices ranging from Rs 5,000 to 0.2 million. The artist said that using takhtis was his way of recollecting childhood memories by highlighting political [...]

The first major change to the domestic programme is that the regional teams have been given new nametags —Karachi Whites is now Karachi Dolphins, Karachi Blues is Karachi Zebras, Multan is Multan Tigers, Lahore Lions, Faisalabad Falcons, Sialkot Stallions, Hyderabad Hawks etc. “The sponsorship will extend to a lot of things like TV coverage, prize [...]

The News staffer and young journalist Zulfiqar Shah has won European Commission’s prestigious ‘Lorenzo Natali Prize’ for the year 2004. His feature story on honour killings ‘Till Death Do Us Part’ published in November 2003 has been ranked one of the best three articles of Asia Pacific region by a Paris-based Grand Jury. The Prize [...]

Leading humour poets focussed on the uniform issue of President Pervez Musharraf at a mushaira organized by the Pakistan Telecommunication Company on Saturday night in a local hotel. The mushaira was called “Mizah eleven”. Prof Inayat Ali Khan Tonki’s verses on the subject made the audience break into peals of uncontrollable laughter. His other verses [...]

For Zen Allah Khan from Pakistan, winning two Lexus vehicles still remains a shock, despite his participation six to seven times a year. ‘I have participated in the DSF raffles since its inception in 1996, but somehow never really expected to win. It was quite a wonderful experience, and one of the best things that [...]

Lok Virsa has launched the first volume of the ‘Cultural Encyclopaedia of Pakistan’ focusing on the country’s heritage, ethnology and folklore, said Uxi Mufti, executive director of Lok Virsa, on Sunday. The first volume ‘Northern Areas – Karakurrum, Himalayas and Hindukush’ written in Urdu was the maiden step towards the 12-volume, the rest of which [...]

Pakistan’s largest sea festival will be held on the Clifton beach from Jan 7 to 9. It said that the theme of the Sindh Sea Festival will be “Save the Environment”. The festival is a project of the government of Sindh in collaboration with the Pakistan Navy. A grand firework would also be the part [...]

The ‘Joint Indo-Pak Peace and Goodwill’ delegation submitted a petition to the government demanding the construction of memorials at both the Pakistan and India borders to honour the people killed during the partition. According to the petition, millions of people suffered losses on both sides of the border during the partition. Thousands of Hindu, Muslim [...]

Diversified KUB Malaysia Bhd, through its joint venture company, Progas Pakistan Limited, Monday announced the inauguration of the first phase of its US$40 million Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) project and the commencement of the construction of Progas’ fully integrated LPG Terminal in Port Qasim, Karachi. Progas is a fully integrated LPG company in Pakistan and [...]

Procter & Gamble Co. said Thursday that total shipments of its Karachi water-purification product to survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunami would eclipse the combined total provided in half a dozen worldwide disasters in the past 12 months. A packet, which contains iron sulfate and chlorine as its active ingredients, is dumped into 10 liters [...]