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Pakistan To Establish Its First Laptop Assembly Plant

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will have its first ever laptop assembling plant soon which would strengthen the country’s indigenous capacity in laptop manufacturing and assembling, and also create job opportunities for skilled youth. The decision was taken during the third meeting for the implementation of the Prime Minister Youth Laptop Scheme held here on Tuesday under the […]


Eco-Jihad: Planting Trees For Paradise

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ISLAMABAD: In the mid-90s, when the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Pakistan was conducting projects related to environmental rehabilitation and natural resource management in Kohistan and parts of Balochistan, the organisation faced opposition from local communities. “The society in those areas was very religious and sceptical of our work, so we tried to […]


Celebrating Pakistan’s Architectural Heritage — A Photographic Journey

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LAHORE: Pakistan is a country rich with diverse cultures and people – persons who have lent it its immense wealth of history, art and architecture. However, not many, even within the country appreciate or acknowledge this celebration of diversity manifested in ancient monuments all over Pakistan. Fiaz Jamal’s solo exhibition at the Al Hamra Arts […]


Islamic Calligraphy Attracts Visitors To Lok Virsa

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ISLAMABAD: An exhibition of traditional Islamic calligraphy “Mesmerising colours of peace and tradition” by eminent artist Muhammad Azeem Iqbal and others opened here at Shakarparian under the aegis of the National Institute of Folk & Traditional Heritage (Lok Virsa). The inaugural ceremony was taken place at the Pakistan National Museum of Ethnology, popularly known as […]


Geo’s Dr Amir An Asset For Pak Nation: Naat Reciters

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KARACHI: The world known Na’at reciters Imran Shaikh Attari and Hafiz Ahmed Reza Qadri have described Geo’s Dr Amir Liaqat Hussain as an asset for the Pakistani nation. They have prayed to Almighty Allah that the Muslims may be allowed to draw inspiration from him for the days to come.Imran Shaikh Attari mentioned his special […]


Dust To Dust

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KARACHI: Quresh Pur spoke Urdu as if he was stringing his sentences together reading from the Farhang-i-Asifiya. Eloquence was his middle name. But it was not a matter of conscious articulation; his eloquence was rooted in erudition. He was a voracious reader. He knew his Gulistaan, Bostaan like the back of his hand and had […]


The Adoption Taboo

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THE babies had apparently been found on a trash heap. The ensuing saga of the television show on which she was given away is well-known. It made news not only in Pakistan but everywhere; CNN did a story and the BBC filmed a segment. The story of the giving away of baby girls, like a […]