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One recent Sunday evening at midnight in a town near here, Kohsar Riaz sat down eagerly in her favorite living room chair for her weekly dose of ARY One World network’s “Drama Hour” and was instantly engrossed in the depressing tale of a hijra (cross-dresser) disowned by family and friends, desperate for acceptance and hopelessly [...]

An American university has included illustrations of the first Pakistani female cartoonist, Nigar Nazar, in its two books, a press release here Saturday said. The Career Center of the University of Oregon, USA, in a letter have expressed their appreciation and gratitude to Nigar Nazar of Gogi fame, for her valuable contribution in illustrating their [...]

The first-ever seminar on the Cyber Journalism (Internet Media) in Pakistan takes place in the Punjab metropolis today, Saturday, expectantly opening alluring vistas for this significant source of news and views dissemination to flourish in times ahead. By now, the Web journalism has, by and large, remained evicted from any type of the patronage from [...]

Talks are abuzz that lissome Katrina Kaif has consented to act in a film that will be directed by a Pakistani filmmaker. Reports say that Javed Raza of Pakistan has signed Katrina and another Indian male actor to play the leading roles in his film which is titled as Koi Pyar Na Karey…

What was billed as a press conference turned out to be a film launch that descended into pure farce here on Wednesday night Reporters received invites for a ‘Meet the Press’ for film Koi Pyar Na Karey, but the function was anything but a press briefing. The official opening of the film project took place [...]

Going by the tremendous response to the CNN Young Journalist Award (YJA) last year, which was launched to recognise quality journalism among media professionals between the age of 22 to 26 from the electronic, online and print media; CNN today announced the second edition of the awards. This year the awards will be extended to [...]

The English may be a foreign language, but it is international in its significance. It is rightly taken as the lingua franca, the common language in all parts of the world today. There is need to learn and use it in our country even though we also need to develop and adopt our own national [...]

A new game show to be hosted by an action-entertainment TV channel here promises participants would re-live the thrill and excitement of an “India-Pakistan sporting encounter”. The show, called “AXN Xtreme: India vs. Pakistan Challenge!” will make participants “prevail over extreme situations, extreme conditions and overcome extreme challenges”…

Bollywood Actress Manisha Koirala and Juhi Babbar, daughter of yesteryear actor Raj Babbar are set to appear for the first time in a Pakistani movie titled Piyas to be produced by Khalil Rana…

These channels would include PTV Gold, PTV Sports, PTV Islamic and others. He said that the agreement with the companies would be for five years. He said that 51 percent of the profit would be given to PTV Foundation and 49 percent to the company…