Creative Industry

Nabila Hafiz Islamabad: Pakistan Furniture Council (PFC) Chief Executive Officer Mian Kashif Ashfaq on Thursday said that the promotion of handicrafts can help alleviate abject poverty and earn badly needed foreign exchange for the…

News Desk RAWALPINDI: The Punjab Arts Council (PAC) on Wednesday organized folk dance, singing and theatre performances to promote new talent. The PAC press release said on Wednesday that the winners of the provincial-level “Punjab Talent…

Wraa Noor ISLAMABAD: The culture of Pakistan emanates diversity and exuberance in all forms, be it music, arts, films, and food cuisines. The Chinese Silk Road Belt and Road Arts Centre in Langfang Hebei province seems quite impressed by…

Jehangir Khan Tareen MULTAN: Pakistan is a land blessed with four seasons but this year we directly landed from winter into summer without having spring and its allied charms. The shift was abrupt and traumatically shocking, especially…

News Desk ISLAMABAD: Some 37 entrepreneurial champions from the rural areas of Pakistan have been honoured at the 14thCiti Micro-entrepreneurship Award (CMA) ceremony, jointly hosted by the Citi Foundation and Pakistan Poverty…

APP PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly was told that the Department of Social Welfare and Special Education launched as many as 125 handicraft centres, under a scheme, in the annual development program in 2014-15, with a total of…

APP Islamabad: The government has allocated Rs 550 million for the National Heritage &  Culture Division under Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP). According to the details here on Friday, Rs 15.400 had been earmarked for…

News Desk ISLAMABAD: The people in Canada were treated to a colourful display of Pakistan’s traditional truck art in downtown Ottawa, where a wall on the main street was painted live by a team of artists from Pakistan. On the…

ISLAMABAD: APP: Shazia Sikander, a Pakistan-born miniature artist, has won Fukuoka Prize in Arts and Culture for introducing innovation in the traditional art forms using the latest digital technology of miniature painting, which follows…

Shakila Jalil Rawalpindi: Shirakat, a non-profit organization, with the financial support of donor organizations empowered as many as 419 women and 81 men to develop and become agricultural entrepreneurs. This success was accomplished…