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The All About Lifestyles exhibition concluded at the Fortress Stadium on Sunday night after attracting crowds for two days. Arranged by the Dawn Group of Newspapers, the All About Lifestyles was the first-ever exhibition to be held at the newly-built Exhibition Centre at the Fortress Stadium. More than 120 exhibitors had set up their stalls [...]

A crowd of about 400 girls and boys went wild chanting the band’s name as the charismatic pair from Pakistan led them to the land of musical bliss. This was the scene on Thursday evening at the Gargi College fest, where Strings gave a rousing performance. As soon as the concert began, the barricades were [...]

This three-day motor show, exhibiting local as well as foreign manufactured vehicles will remain open for the general public on December 18 and 19, who could enter into the premises by showing their driving licenses. The show providing an opportunity to automobile industry in the country to exhibit their latest products and mop up the [...]

The Annemarie-Schimmel-Haus, a non government organisation, in collaboration with Goethe- Institute in Karachi and the Lahore Arts Council organised a concert titled ‘Woodwind Chamber Music Concert’ at the Cultural Complex on Friday. Orsolino Quintet, a musicians’ band comprising Walter Auer, Anne Marckardt, Jochen Tschabrun, Jan Wessely and Marion Reinhard, performed in the concert. Orsolino Quintet, [...]

Pakistan won silver medal in Third World Pankration Athlima (kick boxing and karate) Team Championship held at Community Recreation Center, Sydney, Australia last month. Three Pakistanis – Sarfraz Hussain, Hashim Khan and Muhammad Ayub Awan – also earned bronze medals in individual competitions of the championship. Hosts Australia clinched gold medal, while losing semi-finalists Greece [...]

Our view of the world around us is often shaped by the latest technology, like the cameras that bring us around-the-clock news about the turbulence in south Asia. A group of Pakistani artists, however, are bucking the trend by using a centuries-old medium to interpret current events in often daring ways that challenge perceptions filtered [...]

Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf opened a coastal highway on Thursday linking the main industrial city of Karachi with a deep-sea port being built with Chinese help in the country’s south. People in Baluchistan, Pakistan’s largest but poorest province, have for years complained that governments have ignored its development. The road is expected to open up [...]

Pakistan received an amount of $1609.76 million as workers’ remittances during the first five months of the current fiscal year from July to November 2004, as against $1488.08 million received in the corresponding period of the last fiscal year, registering an increase of $121.68 million or 8.18 per cent. During last month, workers remitted an [...]

Farrukh Ashraf repaired the shoes with 2½-inch heels worn by the precision dance troupe, which finished a 37-performance run of “Radio City Christmas Spectacular” here last week. “The work was not that hard; it’s just so many of them at one time,” Ashraf said recently while gluing rubber-sole protectors to 24 pairs of T-strap leather [...]

Pakistan and India are likely to establish an optic fiber phone link soon to improve telecommunications between the two countries, a Pakistani news channel reported Tuesday. Management control of the company will also be transferred to the buyer of the stake. In the past, Singapore’s SingTel, Egypt’s Orascom Telecom and other Middle Eastern telecom operators [...]