It all started with the Pakistan Cricket Board opening up the sale of a limited number of tickets for the one-day cricket matches between India and Pakistan in March, 2004...
The moment we saw that news report, my wife Ipsita and I knew we had to do this...
Depicting Lahore in images is an old practice and its early patterns could be found in the miniature paintings of the Mughal era...
During the 19th century, the British colonial painters such as James Duffield Hardinge (1798-1863), Henry Ambrose Oldfield (1822-1871), and Alfred Frederick Pollock Harcourt (1836-1910) became obsessed with the architecture, street culture, couture and diversity of professions, which first they depicted...
Alam Road in Gulberg, it was in the company of my wife’s friend and colleague Ra’ana, and we had gone specifically to listen to the song and music of her son Jimmy Khan...
He was talented, gifted and good-looking, and did he strum away happily...
The divisional administration’s policy to involve the National College of Arts (NCA), University of Engineering and Technology (UET), the Walled City of Lahore Authority (WCLA), Parks and Horticulture Authority and others in planning, designing and executing small pilot schemes for the city’s beautification in view of its natural, cultural, heritage and historical values is a right step in the right direction...
Currently, various...
Pakistan set to showcase its security capabilities to the cricketing world for the third time in eight months on Sunday as it hosts Sri Lanka in a Twenty20 international at Lahore's heavily guarded Gaddafi Stadium...
Security plans for the third Twenty20 match between Pakistan and Sri Lanka have been finalised, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Operations Lahore Haider Ashraf told DawnNews on Saturday...
KARACHI: Multan, Bahawalpur and Lahore emerged as only winners as the remaining five fixtures in the opening round of the PCB-Pepsi Cricket Stars Under-19 Tournament were draw on Friday...
Lahore inflicted a seven-wicket defeat on Sialkot in their Pool ‘A’ match at the Shah Faisal Cricket Ground in the Punjab metropolis with Ahmer Jalil claiming four wickets in each innings...
We have been frequenting the eatery ‘Kim’s’ from the days it was Hilton Lahore...
My very first visit to this place was with a senior journalist colleague, Nawab Safiruddin Ahmad Barlas, the Nawab of Loharu; a genuine Nawab if there was ever one in Lahore, and honest to the very core...
The Forum brought in speakers and audiences from around the globe (from both public and private sector) and discussed how cities will shape our future, how they can attract the best talent, and most importantly, how cities can solve problems which even countries cannot...
One similar initiative is the Sister Cities Cooperation, a form of collaboration that serves as a hub for exchanging institutional knowledge and best practices to...
IFlying cars And salad bars Finger phones And kishmish scones Are not the 'in' things in Lahore There's more Of history to the city Look at the digitised tomb of Jehangir And silicon sheen to Anarkali's grave Look at the virtual state of the Shalamar Don't go in there, don't, be brave History is a palm device Less virtue, more viceKarachi, still youthful And unfaithful To its beloved The dogged Arabian Sea A fantasy Of arid zones and fertile...
ISLAMABAD: The alleyways of Lahore’s walled city with their crafts bazaars and centuries old houses with intricately carved overhanging windows and balconies have long fascinated artists...
But what often draws visual artists and photographs to this ancient city are the colourful characters who inhabit its streets...
LAHORE: Moving scenes were witnessed at the public hospitals where a large number of people were desperately trying to locate their loved ones after the Ferozepur Road terrorist attack on Monday...
A majority (28) of those injured, including two women, were shifted to the Lahore General Hospital (LGH) where the condition of three of them was stated to be serious...
Women's Action Forum's (WAF) founding member Lala Rukh passed away at the age of 69 in Lahore on Friday...
Born on June 29, Lala Rukh was diagnosed with cancer last month and passed away at her home in Lahore where she lived with her sister...
LAHORE, it seems, is content to defy all the calls that urge it to contribute to the grand exercise in progress to unmask a legend...
It sits serenely in quiet contrast to the hustle and bustle of Islamabad, which is witnessing a flurry of activity...
ISLAMABAD: Under the new property valuation formula, notified by the Federal Board of Revenue for 12 major cities, the value of residential plots in Lahore and Peshawar is the highest in a maximum number of areas...
The new property tables, which came into effect on July 31, 2016, will be used for the calculation of federal taxes — capital gains tax (CGT), withholding tax and section 111 of the Income Tax Ordinance 2001...
KARACHI: Following the huge success of the inaugural edition of Pakistan Super League (PSL) in February this year, its chairman Najam Sethi is confident about doing even better in its second edition in 2017, which he says will be a substantially improved one in terms of international signings, profits and several other aspects...
In an exclusive interview with Dawn, Sethi said Pakistan cricket fans have every reason to be excited...