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 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:
Pakistani
Newspapers Online
News headlines and brief
summaries of news stories of the following national dailies are
available online with full access to full-text newspapers.
The site contains News International, Daily
Nation, The Daily Dawn, The Friday Times, Daily Millat, Frontier
Post, Business Recorder, Daily HotNews, Urooj, The Internet News
Network, Hi Pakistan, Asia 2000's Pakistan, PakNews, Pakistan Link,
Information Times, Urdu TImes, Pak Home Digest, Aghaz
International Newspapers
The following links provide partial access
to leading international dailies. Full access requires registration
or paid subscription.
News Links on Web
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
United Nations
Information
- UN
PAKISTAN PAGE
- Regional
Governance Page
- General Information
- 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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