The instant you walk through the BVS school’s entrance gate, you realise there’s something delightfully anachronistic about the place. There are trees as aged as the stonework, towering over the boundary wall facing Abdullah Haroon Road (formerly known as Victoria Road). The building is Spartan yet eye-catching in character – like a Greek god. You lift your head to appreciate the façade and read ‘Bai Virbaiji Soparivala Parsi High School Established in 1859’. A little below it is inscribed the date of its construction, ‘1905’.  Read more... (759 words, 1 image, estimated 3:02 mins reading time)

Faculty of Arts,University of Sindh is organizing 1st National Open Essay Writing Competition Commemorating the 2nd Martyrdom Anniversary of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto.

The competition will be governed by the rules listed below:  Read more... (238 words, 1 image, estimated 57 secs reading time)

• The essay is open to all residents of Pakistan.

The raging sugar crisis which has led to unprecedented prices in the retail market has been blamed on a variety of factors. Everything from a shortage of sugar cane to high international prices has come under fire. There has been a hectic trading of blame between sugar cane growers, mill owners, government departments and ministries. Despite the fresh production of 3.6 million tons of sugar and availability of sufficient stocks, the hoarders and market manipulators are trying to create artificial shortage of the commodity in order to boost its prices at the local markets.  Read more... (684 words, 1 image, estimated 2:44 mins reading time)

Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan and City Nazim Mustafa Kamal inaugurated the first multi-storey car parking plaza built by the city government in the Saddar, Karachi today. Saddar has been the most crowded and busy area of Karachi which desperately needs a project like this. Work on the construction of the parking plaza began in 2006 and it was completed at a cost of Rs650 million.  Read more... (244 words, 1 image, estimated 59 secs reading time)

A research team of the Taxila Institute of Asian Civilizations of Quaid-i-Azam University has started a survey and documentation of archaeological sites and historical monuments in the district of Rawalpindi and Islamabad territory.  Read more... (675 words, 1 image, estimated 2:42 mins reading time)

Tony Blair will launch a radically new global education programme, Face to Faith, that engages secondary school students of different faiths across the world in learning directly with, from and about each other – The City`s School in Bhit Shah, Sindh, has been selected to be in the first wave of this exciting new project involving schools in ten countries on four continents.  Read more... (455 words, 1 image, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

The Ajrak is an essential part of the apparel of a Sindhi person. Men use it as a turban, a cummerbund and wound it around the shoulders. Women use it as a dupatta and chaddar, as a shawl and sometimes as a makeshift swing for children. The Ajrak is usually about 2.5-3meters. It is patterned in intense jewel like colors. The dominant colors are rich crimson and a deep indigo. A little bit of white and black is also used to give definition to the geometric patterns.  Read more... (371 words, 2 images, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Pakistan is a rich cultural place with lots of interesting handi crafts which one can only see in Pakistan like a “Rille”. This work is modernize in garment industry by the name of “Applique” but it surel y isn’t as neat and classic as the traditional hand made rille. It takes weeks and even months to make a single piece such an art.  Read more... (137 words, 1 image, estimated 33 secs reading time)