Drama Serial Humsafar has seen an unprecedented success for Hum TV. Since past few years, television audiences have forgotten what it was like to be glued to a TV set when the show is on air and to wait for the day to come when the show will be broadcast. It does not take much time to realize what has made the drama series so popular. The paramount reason is simple and that it is a complete cast and crew of drama, where everyone has done their part of the work really well. Already people are fans of the story as it is based on Farhat Ishtiaq’s novel of the same name.

Intel Pakistan marked the end of its national science competition by announcing the winners of the Intel National Science Fair, who will go on to represent Pakistan at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2012, to be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

The grand winners of the Intel National Science Fair are; ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Shiza Ghulab, Mahnoor Hassan and Bushra Shahed from Institute of Computer and Management Sciences, Peshawar. The individual winners are; Musa Rahim Khan from Agha Khan Higher Secondary School, Chitral and Syed Shahzeb Hussain from Army Public School and College, Command and Staff College, Quetta.

I love bananas and I love Nutella, and combining the two leads to sheer magic. While it is very difficult to imagine improving on Nutella, when you combine it with fresh cream, butter, and icing sugar, and then spread this frosting atop a moist cake chock full of bananas and walnuts, the blend of flavours is simply mouth-watering.

For UAE National Day on December 2, I was invited to a barbeque hosted by a friend. I knew I wanted to bake a cake for the occasion but couldn’t decide which kind until I opened the freezer to find a handful of frozen brown bananas just waiting to be baked to perfection.

There remains no doubt in the fact that the political and economic future of Pakistan lies with the current youth. But is our government doing anything productive to ensure that the youth commits itself to the future of Pakistan?

When it comes to the elite, the masses have always played the blame game, complaining that students attend universities abroad and then decide to find jobs and settle there. The effect, better known as the ‘brain drain’ is perhaps one of the bigger reasons why we have illiterate politicians sitting in the senate and failing macro-economic policies creating an only bigger income disparity between the rich and the poor. However, sometimes when one puts himself/herself in the shoes of such others, one comes across the fact that such decisions to pursue careers abroad are rather forced.

PTCL will invest Rs. 100 billion in Pakistan in next five years, said Mr. Walid Irshaid in an interview with Business Recorder. He said that source of funding can be debt to equity combination, while the investment will be focused on variety of areas with in the company including expansion.

Mr. Irshaid said that PTCL was a state run monopoly telephone company before privatization, while new management is trying to transit the organization to make it become “The Telecom company of Pakistan” with integrated solutions.