I have lived in Oxford for a little over two years now, and lived in the UK for about 6 years now. In this series of articles I will try to explain to my readers in Pakistan what life is like in the UK, and of course in the lovely city of Oxford. I will [...]

A couple of days ago the Lahore Bar Association managed todo what no other bar association has been able to do so far; they lowered theirbar. They decided to ban all products by a company called SHEZAN from beingserved at court premises because apparently according to them SHEZAN is Ahmadiowned. Now you would think that [...]

Warid announces its Tijarat portal/service which allows people of the same interest to sell/buy online different products or services like property, cars, bikes, mobile phones, join book clubs or even buy tickets for concerts or live events. Warid Tijarat allows warid users to buy/sell at the ease of the palm of there hands using services [...]

By Surojit Gupta for The Times of India Trade ties between India and Pakistan are expected to get a boost as New Delhi reaches out to the business community across the border, starting Monday to assure them about the positive impact of normal trade ties. Commerce minister Anand Sharma will undertake a rare journey to [...]

Following is a light rendezvous with the Director of one of the oldest libraries in Lahore, Dyal Singh Library. The general trend of reading books is fast declining with the advent of ‘internet’ and other modern gadgetry. The focus from ‘book reading’ is being shifted to ‘reading stuff on the internet’. Where a lot of [...]

Today a news article in Dawn revealed the shocking case of female students and staff members forced to offer sexual favours in return for grades and demands of their immediate superiors. I do not believe that this news is “shocking” because such cases are a rarity. In fact I believe that such cases probably proliferate throughout educational [...]

I am ever so glad no one died in the Lahore mall fire on Friday. If they did there would be mourning in a full PTI manner with prayers and rememberance for the deceased, which is SUCH a waste of time; people have nothing better to do that say prayers for the departed. If we [...]

Telenor, a Norwegian operator, operating for providing cellular telecommunication service in Pakistan has filed cases against its long standing partners i.e. NSN (Finland based company) and Huawei Technologies (China based company). It has revealed that two cases have been filed against NSN in the last week of January, 2012 which was fixed for hearing before [...]

For a while now there has been a discussion about the rolethat the media plays. Throughout that discussion it has always been said thatthe media is unbiased and it is doing its duty of bringing hard facts toviewers spread all across Pakistan. The assumption has been that nomatter who owned the media outlet it would [...]

LAHORE: As Pakistan strives to promote a ‘soft image’ of the country despite being mired in terrorism, the Punjab government took an innovative step in this direction by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Google for promoting the province’s rich heritage on the internet. A statement issued by the public relations arm of the Government [...]

Asim Iqbal Islamabad, February 6: The appointment of former judge of Lahore High Court, Rana Arshad Khan,cas Chief Judge of Supreme Appellate Court Giglgit-Baltistan has been challenged in yhr Supreme Court of Pakistan. The petitioner, Dr Ghulam Abbas, in his constitutional petition has prayed to the apex court to issue stay order agaist the appointment and restrain [...]

By Hamza Usman An inevitable question Pakistanis always ask me is, “what are you?” Often, I’ve wondered the same question. Besides ‘Pakistani,’ I don’t know what else to say.  I’m not Balochi or Sindhi. I can’t speak Punjabi. In my house, besides English, Urdu is the only other language spoken. When people ask me what [...]

A warm cup of tea, a gentle cool breeze grazing past your skin, the pitter patter of raindrops beginning to land on your window from the dazzling clouds that seem to change color every time you look at them. That’s a normal day in Islamabad. Construction began in the 1960’s with Islamabad now being ranked [...]

I’m sure many of you would have recently heard about the ‘Pakistani Council of Defense’, which has suddenly emerged out of nowhere, holding rallies in Lahore, Multan and soon will be doing another show in Karachi. So What’s All the fuss about ? Even I’m not too sure about that, but this council seems to [...]