Wasim Sajjad

1 week ago | arab.news | Fatimah Amjad |Wasim Sajjad |Ismail Dilawar |Falak Khan

ISLAMABAD: US Republican Congressman Jack Bergman has called for cooperation with Islamabad in the critical minerals and industrial development sectors, aiming to build a strategic partnership that “provides value not only to Pakistan but to the entire world.” The United States has identified a list of “critical minerals” like aluminum, lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements that it has deemed essential for its economy, national security, and technological advancements.

1 week ago | arabnews.pk | Wasim Sajjad

Torkham, Pakistan: Muhammad Rasool stood waiting at the Torkham border crossing in northwestern Pakistan earlier this month, set to return to his homeland of Afghanistan after 45 years with only a few belongings on his back. The journey is not one Rasool, an Afghan refugee, is making by choice.

3 weeks ago | arab.news | Naimat Khan |Muhammad Ibrahim |Wasim Sajjad

SHIKARPUR, Sindh: Few table spreads in Pakistan are complete without a jar of pickles, their tangy, spicy, and complex flavors adding punch to main dishes like lentils, curries and rice. One city in Pakistan has become synonymous with the production of achar, or pickles as they are called in Urdu.

3 weeks ago | arabnews.pk | Wasim Sajjad

PESHAWAR: In the days leading up to the Eid Al-Fitr holiday, Rafi Ullah Safi is especially busy at his shop in Peshawar city’s historic Qissa Khwani Bazaar as customers arrive from across the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and beyond to order his Degi Chargha: a steamed chicken roast prepared in a secret marinade of 21 spices.

3 weeks ago | arab.news | Wasim Sajjad |Fatimah Amjad |Rehmat Mehsud |Buraq Shabbir

PESHAWAR: In the Namak Mandi Bazaar in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, cheese makers have been having a day as customers pour in daily to place orders for the Eid Al-Fitr holiday. In the northwestern regions of the country, particularly the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, cheese is often given to friends and family as Eid gifts or used at home to prepare fried cheese or paneer curries and tikkas for loved ones who visit over the holiday.