United Nations Pakistan - Virtual Library
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Virtual Reference Desk
Virtual
News Room: National and International Dailies as well as
online UN as well as general news sources
Phone
Books and Directories : Selected yellow pages and
online address /phone books
Maps
and Atlases Some selected sources of world, country and city
maps
Country
Profiles : Economic and social indicators,
political situation and other information about countries of
world
Writer's
Corner: A small collection of web dictionaries,
encyclopedia, thesauri and writing aids.
Everyday
Reference Tools: Time, weather, currency exchange, geographic
& travel information
Pakistan
Information Online: Phobe books, business directories
travel and general information about Pakistan.
Virtual
News Room
United
Nations Daily News:
UN News: Coverage of Daily Events: The site contains:
Un Journal,
Daily High lights, UN Press Releases,
Fact sheets and Newsletters, Briefings
and Office of the spokesman for secretary General.
Pakistan
National Dailies:
News headlines and
brief summaries of news stories of the following national dailies
are available online. Full access to full-text newspapers
available on paid subscription.
International
Newspapers
The following
links provide partial access to leading international dailies.
Full access requires registration or paid subscription.
News
Links on Web
Worldwide list
of online Newspapers : This link provides an
alphabetical list by names of newspapers available online
on the Internet.Newspapers of
the world on Internet : This site contains hypertext
links to the newspapers accessible on the World Wide Web.
Interactive search by names of continents pulls an
alphabetical list of countries of that continent.
Hypertext links of major national newspapers are given
under each country.
CNN Interactive News : Enjoy
reading current news stories , weather reports , weather
forecasts and other information on your favorite topics
from CNN International's Website.
AJR Newslink : The best
newspaper link on the Internet providing access to
world's newspapers and more.
Phone Books, Addresses and
Directories
Jamal's Yellow Pages of Pakistan: Provides address, phone
numbers and business details of Pakistani businesses.
WED World e-mail Directory: 18.000.000 email addresses
140.000.000 business and phone addresses
This site is
dedicated to finding people and locating businesses and
organizations. Here you'll find everything : email
software, email list servers, many worldwide email
databases, business, telephone and fax directories and a
comprehensive online World Email
Directory search engine
Area Code Lookup: Look up area code for any
city in the US or Canada.
ACR's International Calling
Codes -
alphabetical directory of country and city telephone codes.
Maps and Atlases
Warning! Maps are large graphic files and may
take a while to load / download.
City.Net Maps: An impressive collection of
maps; of cities, landmarks, tours, travel routes and regions all
over the world. Well-organized, searchable and easy to download.
Cities around the world: Click the name of a city
to show a zoom-able image centered on that city.
Map Machine: a National Geographic site
for world maps.
World City Maps: Maps of major cities of
the world produced by US Department of State.
Country Profiles
and other information
Chiefs of states and
Cabinet members of the world:
Library of Congress
Country Studies
This
site contains the social, political and economic conditions,
facts about population, education, agriculture, industry, health
and other indicators of socio - economic development.
World Fact Book - 1996
View
the CIA's famous reference book by the same name. Provides useful
facts and figures with good background information on each
country's history, culture and politico - economic
infrastructure.
Economic and Political
conditions of countries
Click a country on a world map to see socio-economic, cultural,
political, financial, trade and business information.
Country Profiles
This
link refers to the regions/countries with specific data at hand.
The regional page gives an overview of the countries in the
region with their capitals and other main data and tables with
all the provinces, states, etc. of a country and a list of major
cities.
Writer's Corner
Encyclopedia:
Britannica Limited Search: Britannica Sample Search
allows you to search the entire database of Britannica Online and
review search results (article or section titles) relevant to
your query. Full access to the articles is available to
subscribers only. A subscription (or free trial subscription)
would allow full access to all of the Britannica databases.
Dictionaries:
Hypertext Webster
Interface: Type the word for which you want the
definition, in the search window. Then click to select either
exact or approximate match and press "Look up
definition" button.
Roget's Internet Thesaurus: A catalog of
English words and phrases that can be accessed by keyword
searching or by browsing an outline which groups words by
similarity of meanings.
Roget's Thesaurus: A gopher
site for interactive searches for terms
Bartlett's Quotations: A collection
of passages, phrases and proverbs, traced to their sources in
literature.
Common Errors in
English: Simple, entertaining explanations of
common errors in English.
Marriam - Webster's Dictionary: Type in your word or
phrase and press ENTER/RETURN.
Acronyms and
Abbreviations Server: *A searchable index.
Free Online Dictionary
of Computing:
Internet Glossary: North-West
Direct Glossary of Internet terms.
Web Lingo Glossary: Internet
terms, descriptions, Internet lingo glossary. Online help for
Internet beginners
Writing
Aids:
The King's English: An essential
reference tool for writers. Guides on vocabulary, syntax,
punctuation, grammar and much more.
Able Writer: A rhetoric
and handbook: Describes an English composition
handbook that treats pre-writing outlining, English grammar,
Usage, Word choice, Spelling, Punctuation, and methods of writing
research papers.
"As the Publisher
said to the Editor...": A collection of articles on how to write
and publish articles and journals. To access articles from As
the Publisher said to the Editor, you will need the acrobat
"portable document format" reader which is
available free from Adobe Systems.
Everyday Reference Tools
UNDP
Pakistan Handbook: A general local information guidebook
prepared by UNDP - Islamabad, for foreigners on United Nations
staff , arrived new in Pakistan.
Foreign
Currency Exchange:
Currency Exchange Rates
(UNDP).
All countries updated monthly.
Currency Conversions: The web's most popular
currency site featuring OANDA's 164 Currency Converter, offering
current and historic exchange rates since 1990.
Universal Currency Converter: Allows you
to perform interactive foreign exchange rate conversion on the
Internet. Type the amount of source currency and select the
source and destination currencies. The converter will display the
results.
Dates,
Times, Weathers:
Today's Calendar: Date and Time Page.
Complete calendar information about today.
One World Globe
Calendar: Countries, Festivals, Holidays and
Celebrations of countries, cultures and nations around the World.
The World Clock: Current
local times around the world. This page is automatically reloaded
every 5 minutes.
Local Times Around the
World:.
Local times and Greenwich Mean Time/Universal Coordinated Time in
cities around the world.
Yahoo Weather: A list of continents and
regions takes you to individual countries and cities for current
day weather conditions as well as a four-day forecast. You can
enter your city / state name for direct search too.
INTELLIcast: World
Weather. Four day forecast for cities of the world.
World Weather: See
temperatures and weather information of world's regions and major
cities. Also gives 5 day weather forecasts of world's regions,
countries and major cities.
International
Travel / Relocation Information :
Relocation Salary
Calculator: Enter your current salary figure and
names of two cities to find out the equivalent amount required at
the destination city to maintain the same standard of living.
Distance Calculator: Direct line
distance server. Find the distance between any two cities of the
world and see the two places on the map.
The AT&T Business
Traveler: Dialling Guide: This website
contains country codes, city codes, and other helpful information
for international dialing and faxing.
CDC Travel Information:. Geographic, Health
Recommendations, Disease Outbreaks, Reference Material for
International Travel.
Lonely Planet Online: Down to earth travel
guides.
Pakistan Information Online
United
Nations Information
- UN PAKISTAN PAGE
- Regional Governance
Page
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- General
Information
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- The Official Pakistan Page
- Pakistan WWW
Virtual Library
- Javed's PAKISTAN
Page
Directories
- Pakistan Trade and
Export Directory
- PTC Authorised
Yellow Pages of Pakistan
- Welcome to
Pakistan's Business World., Trade Index of Pakistan
- FAST YELLOW PAGES
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Travel and
Tourist Information
- Lonely Planet -
Destination Pakistan
- Tariq's Pakistan
Page
- Kamal
- The Karakoram
Highway and Beyond...
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