February 2012
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Snowfest: Festival to attract tourists to the... →
To draw tourists to Malam Jabba, the biggest and most popular ski resort in the country, the Pakistan Army has organised a week-long Swat Snow Festival.
This year, the snow festival “Ski and Smile in Swat” will include other snow-related activities like paragliding and a competition for children for a wider appeal.
“The sole objective of the festival is to attract tourists for winter...
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Interact: Your favourite city in Pakistan?
This time we want to know what is your favourite city in Pakistan, and preferably the thing you love the most about it!
Let us know :)
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18 year old Pakistani develops SMS-based social...
The SMS-based social networking service enables users to gather local and international information on their phones, free of cost, without using the internet.
IT-savvy Shahzad has been into developing programmes and websites ever since he was in grade six. This hobby transformed into passion and helped him achieve a lot at a very young age.
Smile SMS – the first of its kind service...
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Durdana Ansari: Changing face →
First ever Pakistani Woman for Order of British Empire honor in UK
Tribune: Journalist Durdana Ansari was spearheading a successful Muslim women’s charity project in obscurity until she was awarded OBE (Order of the British Empire), according to ruislip.uxbridgegazette.co.uk.an. OBE is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom to honour individuals with...
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Student Biryani Goes Global
KARACHI: Consistent taste and “word of mouth” is what has taken Student Biryani, a brand of Café Student, from a small roadside vendor to one of Pakistan’s fastest growing franchise networks. The Karachi-based food outlet – after attracting notable traffic in Dubai – now wants to test North American and European markets; extend its Gulf network through global franchising. Established by Haji...
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Economic uplift as self-discovery →
Niaz Murtaza
Starting small, Pakistan could initially help entrepreneurs climb the technological ladder within existing export sectors where it is currently restricted to low-end products, e.g. textiles; then help domestically cost-efficient sectors, e.g. petrochemicals, become export-competitive; and then finally tackle other challenging sectors.
Pakistani governments have shown some finesse...
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naghmanchaudry asked: who is the motorcycling lady and what is the latest news on her situation.
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The Urdu Professor of Uzbekistan →
TASHKENT: In the middle of Central Asia, a professor has studied and taught Urdu for over half a century.
Professor Dr Tash Mirza is as passionate about the language now as he was in 1961, when he completed his doctorate in Urdu from Moscow University. His studies have taken him as far as Delhi, though his home for almost all his life has been Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.
Mirza...
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The Election Commission has decided to give voting... →
The landmark decision would enable 3.7 million overseas Pakistanis to participate in elections. The voting mechanism would be decided later in another meeting.—DawnNews
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Microsoft certified Pakistani wonder kid makes... →
After Arfa Karim now another Pakistani wonder boy has made world record after creating Microsoft and Google certified seven computer operating systems in the suburb of Abbotabad. This teen computer genius of Pakistan, 14-year old student Sikandar Mehmood Baloch, lives in Bilal Town situated in the suburb of Abbotabad. Sikandar not only become certified expert of 107 computer engineering...
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In pictures: Karachi whale shark
For a BBC News item click here.
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mehlodius asked: Please, would you dedicate something to "Ghalib Khalil" who has sadly passed away tragically in a car accident at 17 years of age? He was known on Tumblr as "hopingpakistan" and was also the founder of "Rescue Pakistan Youth Foundation". May Allah SWT give his family sabr (Aameen).
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Whiz kid: After 4 world records, 14-year-old to... →
After breaking four world records, 14-year-old whiz kid from Dera Ismail Khan, Babar Iqbal is now set to present his first research paper at the 8th IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology.
Iqbal will present a paper on digital forensic science, the field that covers the recovery and investigation of data from digital devices and is often used to aid computer...
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“Pakistan becomes the first team since 1907 to win a test match after being...”
– Yay! Go Pakistan!
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