Tag: Manchester
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British student finds lost sketches 4,000 miles away in Lahore
A British student of fashion and arts lost her collection of sketches but miraculously found all her work, thousands of miles away, in Pakistan. BBC reports that 20-year-old Grace Hart was worried that she would not get into the university where she applied for admission when her mother accidentally discarded her portfolio required for her…
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PIA plane flies with only one passenger on board
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flew its plane from Islamabad to Manchester with only one passenger on board. According to reports, the plane which had a capacity of 371 passengers carried only one passenger to the destination. While Geo News has reported that the flight took off from Islamabad, journalist Murtaza Ali Shah said that the…
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PM says Manchester will envy Faisalabad’s progress one day
As he announced a programme to facilitate industrialisation in Faisalabad, Prime Minister Imran Khan said he hoped one day Manchester would say that Faisalabad has overtaken it in terms of industrial progress. Addressing a ceremony attended by the businessmen on Wednesday, the PM said: “If Faisalabad, once known as Pakistan’s Manchester, had kept up its…
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Virgin Atlantic airline to launch direct flights between UK and Pakistan
Virgin Atlantic airline is all set to operate flights between the UK and Pakistan from December this year. According to details, it will launch three new routes: London Heathrow to Lahore; London Heathrow to Islamabad; and Manchester to Islamabad. Flights will go on sale in September. In a statement, Virgin’s chief commercial officer Juha Jarvinen…