Laraib Atta, who happens to be the daughter of renowned folk singer Attaullah Khan Esakhailvi, has been quietly making her way in Hollywood as a visual effects artist...
com: Could you tell me about your childhood in Pakistan? Where did you live and study, and what were your interests growing up as a child?Laraib Atta: I was born and raised in Lahore, where I studied at the Beaconhouse School, Liberty Campus...
Vayani has become the first Pakistani woman to be elected in the Bar Presentation Committee at Lincoln’s Inn for four years where she will represent Pakistan...
Speaking to Dawn on Friday, two days after the results of the elections were announced, a very happy Barrister Vayani explained that the Lincoln’s Inn Bar Representative Committee was the only category allowed for candidates from all over the world including the United...
PTI dissident Noor Alam Khan and PPP leaders Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, Faisal Karim Kundi and Nadeem Afzal Chan were involved in a fight with an unidentified elderly at a hotel in Islamabad on Tuesday...
Noor Alam Khan is one of several PTI dissidents who last month were found staying at the Sindh House in Islamabad and who had said they would vote against party chairman Imran Khan in the vote of no-confidence against him...
The US embassy in Islamabad on Sunday prohibited its staff from visiting the city’s Marriott Hotel due to concerns of a “possible attack”...
A security alert issued by the embassy said the US government was “aware of information that unknown individuals are possibly plotting to attack Americans at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad sometime during the holidays”...
ISLAMABAD: In an exercise to determine the amount of money pouring into real estate investments in the federal capital, the Federal Board of Revenue has struck upon a surprisingly high number...
After Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Peshawar topped the list of cities sending money into real estate investments to the federal capital, followed by Karachi and Lahore...
ISLAMABAD: The Municipal Corporation of Islamabad (MCI) is collecting 200pc increased property tax in contradiction to a court decision and without legal backing...
Islamabad High Court (IHC) Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani in December last year set aside the notification of 200pc increase in property tax in the federal capital and directed the MCI to go for a public hearing before notifying any hike in the property tax...
WASHINGTON: Pakistan has received three bids for a building which once housed the defence section of the country’s embassy in the US capital...
Earlier this month, Pakistan embassy officials told Dawn that one of the country’s three diplomatic properties in Washington — a building on the prestigious R Street NW — was up for sale...
KARACHI: When it comes to hotel room booking, Wi-fi is a deal-breaker with 68 per cent of visitors asking for this amenity, followed by 24pc looking for swimming pools and 8pc searching for air-conditioned rooms, according to a report released by hotel booking website Jovago...
Speaking at the launch of the report, Jovago Managing Director Nadine Malik said Pakistan’s hospitality industry is set to grow in the years to come and the...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday strongly condemned the terrorist attack and hostage-taking at Radisson-Blu Hotel at Bamako in Mali...
At least 22 people were killed during the nine-hour siege of the hotel on Friday...
ISLAMABAD: A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court on Monday asked the government to verify the allegation by a private petitioner that a hotel was being constructed in the US embassy compound...
Petitioner Zafarullah Khan, a lawyer and chairman of Watan Party, had approached the apex court in 2009 with the request to stop the government from providing additional land for the expansion of the embassy, which already occupied 38 acres in...
TEHRAN: Iran's official IRNA news agency is reporting that four young Saudi pilgrims have died in Iran as a result of an accidental mass poisoning in their hotel...
A hotel in Makkah, where around 2 million Muslims have gathered to perform Haj, was evacuated on Monday after a fire broke out, the Saudi Civil Defence Directorate said...
Civil defence spokesman Major Nayef Al-Sharif said no casualties were reported following the fire, which was sparked by a faulty air conditioning unit on the eighth floor of a hotel in the Azaziyah district of Makkah...
ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary panel was informed on Wednesday that the Pakistan International Airlines has no plans to sell the Roosevelt Hotel in New York...
When Mr Mahmood said there were reports that the PIA was going to sell its Roosevelt Hotel in New York, the acting PIA chairman said that there was no such plan...
A first information report (FIR) has been registered against five men accused of assaulting a girl at a hotel in Defence Housing Authority (DHA) in Karachi, police officials said on Monday...
According to the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Karachi South Javed Akbar Riaz, the incident took place on October 29 at a four-star hotel where the girl went with a friend...
Police on Monday recovered bodies of a man and woman, who had allegedly been shot dead, from a hotel room in Bahawalpur, DawnNews reported...
The victims, identified as Mohammad Owais and Anoosha — both in their early 20s — had checked into Shine Star hotel in Bahawalpur at 10...