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A town in Punjab, which borders both India and Pakistan, has become an example of communal harmony with its heterogeneous demography. It also witnessed a historic wedding that was even televised live. The couple overcame political differences to be together. Malerkotla town lies in the prosperous north Indian state of Punjab. After Pakistan separated from [...]

Rehman is one of the country’s top journalists and columnists. His columns on political, human rights and other issues appear regularly in English newspapers and journals. He is also associated with the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. Established in 1957, the Ramon Magsaysay Award is Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize. It honours the memory [...]

While Mahesh Bhatt plans to cast Pakistani actress Meera in his supernatural thriller Nazar, Kamal Haasan wants to make a love story spanning the two countries with a Pakistani actress in the lead. The two sides seem to be coming closer than ever before through cinema. Amidst reports that Islamabad might lift the nearly 40-year-old [...]

IMAGINE Tulsi (Kyunki…), Parvati ( Kahani…) and Kashish (Kahiin To Hoga) delivering their lines in Urdu, bereft of silks and sapphires, with no background score to complement their histrionics. This is not the twilight zone of Indian television, but the Pakistani counterparts of our popular serials on the GEO TV and ARY Digital Networks channels. [...]

Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) Managing Director Arshad Khan directed PTV to televise programmes that focused on ‘neglected segments’ such as programmes for children, senior citizens and teenagers, PTV sources told Daily Times on Friday. ‘Mr Khan has issued directions to the programming section to televise programmes at timings that would be most convenient for the [...]

The government came out with a clear cut policy in the National Assembly on Friday regarding showing of Indian movies in Pakistan, saying screening of Bollywood films would help the government in collecting millions of rupees in taxes. Minister for Culture and Tourism Rais Munir Ahmed told the lower House during the question hour that [...]

The scars around her eyes were visible even before the young Pakistani woman lifted her veil, showing TV viewers the burns suffered when her husband doused her with kerosene and set her on fire. Such a spectacle until recently would have been too shocking for Pakistani television. But two private cable-TV channels — one beamed [...]

A newly formed group called “Buniyad” (Foundation) along with the KaraFilm Society put together “Karachi Kamera,” a viewing of “Short Films from Pakistan” in San Francisco. Included in this June 25 program at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco was an interesting beginning film, which asked a number of (non-South Asian) people on the [...]