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Pakistan’s leading Sufi singer Abida Parveen performs in city for first time 51-year-old songstress has no room for Sufi-addicted Bollywood producers right now. The 51-year-old singer is no stranger to Delhi, spreading a new light with her music at Humayun’s Tomb once the sun has set, but this is her first time in Mumbai. How [...]

Who would want to watch a programme about Luton and particularly about Luton’s Pakistani community? Poor unloved Luton was recently voted “Britain’s crappiest town” and its media image veers from cheap ‘n’ cheerful Luton Airport to reports of police raids. So when writer and broadcaster Sarfraz Manzoor was commissioned to make a documentary film about [...]

There is a vast market for Pushto films in Afghanistan. This was stated by office-bearers of the Pushto Filmmakers Association at a news conference here on Sunday. People now liked action films with good music and powerful script, he said. Arshad Khan said that good photography and outdoor locations were also helping to popularise Pushto [...]

When Qudsia Sethi was 11, she was invited to a swimming party. Her parents were hesitant but gave her permission to go. She wouldn’t be allowed to wear a bathing suit, however. That would be strictly against her Muslim upbringing, her father told her. Instead, she would wear something akin to a stretchy jumpsuit that [...]

Illuminare Entertainment to release the first ever Pakistani-American produced film “Night of Henna” (“The Wedding Night”). Produced by Phenomenon Films, “Night of Henna” is about a beautiful Pakistani woman who must choose between her true love and that of an arranged marriage by her family. It’s a young woman’s struggle to be free and to [...]

Set in 1979, the film captures Pakistan as Islamic militancy was just finding its footing. The Russians were about to invade Afghanistan. The shah was deposed in Iran. Clerics and fundamentalist college teachers were rabble-rousing the young all over the region.And Ayesha (Kiron Kher) would love to protect her son, Saleem (Aamir Ali Malik), from [...]

Zafar Gill, a boxer from WAPDA, has got his name registered in the Guinness Book of World Records by lifting 51.7 kilogrammes by one ear on May 26, 2004. He broke the earlier record of China’s Li Jian Hua who lifted a column of bricks weighing 50 kilogrammes by one ear for 9.3 seconds on [...]

Defying a chilly night, a bitter drizzle and the reprimands of the mullahs, Pakistanis broke loose this weekend in a boisterous annual rite of spring: Grown men lost sight of everything but chasing kites in the sky, children stayed up until dawn, women reveled on roofs, dressed in the color of mustard blossoms. Even the [...]

Called “Help!”, the concert held in Bombay, was broadcast on several news and entertainment television channels, including Geo TV. Indian film legend Amitabh Bachchan, superstars Shahrukh Khan and Aamir Khan and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai made appeals for donations. Pakistani stars present included leading film stars Meera, Rafqat Ali Khan and Waris Baig Mirza, [...]

Preparations for Basant reached their zenith in Lahore on Friday, as hundreds of thousands of people from outstation and abroad have reached here for the 24-hour festivities beginning on Saturday night. Shops selling kites and twine were drawing great rush of people, who bought the required stocks despite the high prices. There was a great [...]