diff --git a/resources/recipes/chowk.recipe b/resources/recipes/chowk.recipe
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+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
+
+class ChowkRecipe(BasicNewsRecipe):
+    __license__  = 'GPL v3'
+    __author__ = 'kwetal'
+    language = 'en_IN'
+    version = 1
+
+    title = u'Chowk'
+    publisher = u'chowk.com'
+    category = u'Opinion, South Asia'
+    description = u'Ideas & Identities of South Asia'
+
+    use_embedded_content = False
+    remove_empty_feeds = True
+    oldest_article = 30
+    max_articles_per_feed = 100
+
+    #no_stylesheets = True
+    remove_javascript = True
+    encoding = 'utf-8'
+
+    feeds = []
+    feeds.append(('Chowk Articles', 'http://www.chowk.com/rss'))
+
+    keep_only_tags = []
+    keep_only_tags.append(dict(name = 'div', attrs = {'id': 'content'}))
+
+    conversion_options = {'comments': description, 'tags': category, 'language': 'en',
+                          'publisher': publisher}
+
+    extra_css = '''
+                body{font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,geneva,sans-serif;}
+                a {text-decoration: none; color: blue;}
+                div.pgtitle {font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;}
+                div.wname, div.date {font-size: x-small; color: #696969;}
+                div.wname {margin-top: 1em;}
+                div.date {margin-bottom: 1em;}
+                div.title {font-weight: bold;}
+                '''
+
+
+    def print_version(self, url):
+        main, sep, id = url.rpartition('/')
+
+        return main + '/print/' + id
diff --git a/resources/recipes/dawn.recipe b/resources/recipes/dawn.recipe
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+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
+from calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import Tag
+
+class DawnRecipe(BasicNewsRecipe):
+    __license__  = 'GPL v3'
+    __author__ = 'kwetal'
+    language = 'en_PK'
+    version = 1
+
+    title = u'Dawn'
+    publisher = u'Dawn Media Group'
+    category = u'News, Pakistan'
+    description = u'Leading English Newspaper of Pakistan covering national & international news'
+
+    use_embedded_content = False
+    remove_empty_feeds = True
+    oldest_article = 2
+    max_articles_per_feed = 100
+
+    no_stylesheets = True
+    remove_javascript = True
+    encoding = 'utf-8'
+
+    # Feeds from http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/services/rss
+    feeds = []
+    feeds.append((u'Latest News', u'http://feedproxy.google.com/Dawn-All-News'))
+    feeds.append((u'Pakistan News', u'http://feeds2.feedburner.com/dawn/news/pakistan'))
+    feeds.append((u'World News', u'http://feeds2.feedburner.com/dawn/news/world'))
+    feeds.append((u'Business News', u'http://feeds2.feedburner.com/dawn/news/business'))
+    feeds.append((u'Sport News', u'http://feeds2.feedburner.com/dawn/news/sport'))
+    feeds.append((u'Cricket News', u'http://feeds2.feedburner.com/dawn/news/cricket'))
+    feeds.append((u'Sci-tech News', u'http://feeds2.feedburner.com/dawn/news/technology'))
+    feeds.append((u'Entertainment News', u'http://feeds2.feedburner.com/dawn/news/entertainment'))
+    feeds.append((u'Columnists', u'http://feeds2.feedburner.com/dawn/news/columnists'))
+    #feeds.append((u'', u''))
+
+    conversion_options = {'comments': description, 'tags': category, 'language': 'en',
+                          'publisher': publisher}
+
+    extra_css = '''
+                body{font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,geneva,sans-serif;}
+                center {font-size: xx-small; color: #666666;}
+                strong {font-size: small; font-weight: bold;}
+                span.news_headline {font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold; margin: 0em; padding: 0em}
+                span.news_byline {font-size: x-small; color: #696969; margin-top: 1em;}
+                '''
+
+    def print_version(self, url):
+        return url + '?pagedesign=Dawn_PrintlyFriendlyPage'
+
+    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
+        newBody = Tag(soup, 'body')
+
+        for cl in ['page_title', 'news_headline', 'news_byline']:
+            tag = soup.find('span', attrs = {'class': cl})
+            if tag:
+                # They like their <br> tags; I don't: does not work well on small screens.
+                if tag['class'] == 'news_byline':
+                    for br in tag.findAll('br'):
+                        br.extract()
+
+                newBody.append(tag)
+
+        table = soup.find('table', attrs = {'id': 'body table'})
+        if table:
+            for td in table.findAll('td', attrs = {'class': 'news_story'}):
+                for tag in td.findAll(True):
+                    if tag.has_key('id') and tag['id'] == 'banner-img_slide':
+                        tag.extract()
+                    elif tag.has_key('style'):
+                        del tag['style']
+                    elif tag.name == 'script':
+                        tag.extract()
+
+                # They like their <br> tags; I don't: does not work well on small screens.
+                center = td.find('center')
+                if center:
+                    for br in center.findNextSiblings('br'):
+                        br.extract()
+                    for br in center.findPreviousSiblings('br'):
+                        br.extract()
+
+                for attr in ['align', 'valign']:
+                    if td.has_key(attr):
+                        del td[attr]
+
+                td.name = 'div'
+                newBody.append(td)
+
+            soup.body.replaceWith(newBody)
+
+            return soup
diff --git a/resources/recipes/thenews.recipe b/resources/recipes/thenews.recipe
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+++ b/resources/recipes/thenews.recipe
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+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
+
+class TheNewsRecipe(BasicNewsRecipe):
+    __license__  = 'GPL v3'
+    __author__ = 'kwetal'
+    language = 'en_PK'
+    version = 1
+
+    title = u'The News'
+    publisher = u'Jang Group'
+    category = u'News, Pakistan'
+    description = u'English Newspaper from Pakistan'
+
+    use_embedded_content = False
+    remove_empty_feeds = True
+    oldest_article = 2
+    max_articles_per_feed = 100
+
+    no_stylesheets = True
+    remove_javascript = True
+    encoding = 'iso-8859-1'
+
+    remove_tags = []
+    remove_tags.append(dict(name = 'img', attrs = {'src': 'images/thenews.gif'}))
+    remove_tags.append(dict(name = 'img', attrs = {'src': 'images/shim.gif'}))
+
+    # Feeds from http://thenews.com.pk/rss.asp
+    feeds = []
+    feeds.append((u'Latest Stories', u'http://www.thenews.com.pk/rss/thenews_updates.xml'))
+    feeds.append((u'Top Stories', u'http://www.thenews.com.pk/rss/thenews_topstories.xml'))
+    feeds.append((u'World News', u'http://www.thenews.com.pk/rss/thenews_world.xml'))
+    feeds.append((u'National News', u'http://www.thenews.com.pk/rss/thenews_national.xml'))
+    feeds.append((u'Business News', u'http://www.thenews.com.pk/rss/thenews_business.xml'))
+    feeds.append((u'Karachi News', u'http://www.thenews.com.pk/rss/thenews_karachi.xml'))
+    feeds.append((u'Lahore News', u'http://www.thenews.com.pk/rss/thenews_lahore.xml'))
+    feeds.append((u'Islamabad News', u'http://www.thenews.com.pk/rss/thenews_islamabad.xml'))
+    feeds.append((u'Peshawar News', u'http://www.thenews.com.pk/rss/thenews_peshawar.xml'))
+    feeds.append((u'Editorial', u'http://www.thenews.com.pk/rss/thenews_editorial.xml'))
+    feeds.append((u'Opinion', u'http://www.thenews.com.pk/rss/thenews_opinion.xml'))
+    feeds.append((u'Sports News', u'http://www.thenews.com.pk/rss/thenews_sports.xml'))
+    feeds.append((u'Newspost', u'http://www.thenews.com.pk/rss/thenews_newspost.xml'))
+
+    conversion_options = {'comments': description, 'tags': category, 'language': 'en',
+                          'publisher': publisher, 'linearize_tables': True}
+
+    extra_css = '''
+                body{font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,geneva,sans-serif;}
+                .heading_txt {font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;}
+                .small_txt {text-align: left;}
+                .dateline {font-size: x-small; color: #696969; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em}
+                '''
+
+
+    def print_version(self, url):
+        ignore, sep, main = url.rpartition('/')
+
+        if main.startswith('updates.asp'):
+            return url.replace('updates.asp', 'print.asp')
+        elif main.startswith('top_story_detail.asp'):
+            return url.replace('top_story_detail.asp', 'print3.asp')
+        elif main.startswith('daily_detail.asp'):
+            return url.replace('daily_detail.asp', 'print1.asp')
+        else:
+            return None
+
+    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
+        for tr in soup.findAll('tr', attrs = {'bgcolor': True}):
+            del tr['bgcolor']
+
+        td = soup.find('td', attrs = {'class': 'small_txt', 'height': '20'})
+        if td:
+            del td['height']
+            td['class'] = 'dateline'
+
+        return soup
+
+
+
diff --git a/src/calibre/utils/localization.py b/src/calibre/utils/localization.py
index 64dadb89e4..14b7b32c8c 100644
--- a/src/calibre/utils/localization.py
+++ b/src/calibre/utils/localization.py
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ _extra_lang_codes = {
         'en_IN' : _('English (IND)'),
         'en_TH' : _('English (TH)'),
         'en_CY' : _('English (CY)'),
+        'en_PK' : _('English (PK)'),
         'de_AT' : _('German (AT)'),
         'nl'    : _('Dutch (NL)'),
         'nl_BE' : _('Dutch (BE)'),