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The Dubai-headquartered Geo TV, flagship channel of the Pakistan-based Jang group of media companies, has decided to shift from a single channel entity to being a full fledged network. On the agenda, is the launch of ten channels dealing in all genres. The ten being general entertainment, news, youth, lifestyle, music, kids, sports, movies, and [...]

A 34-year old Pakistani living in San Francisco has just completed a feature film that is now ready for release. Hassan Zee, who is 34 years old and an optometrist by profession, will become the first Pakistani to have completed and released a full-length feature film in America when his Night of Henna comes to [...]

A Pakistani newspaper vendor in Paris with a unique selling style has won a book deal to have his life story published. Ali Akbar, who sells copies of Le Monde on the streets of the French capital’s fashionable St Germain des Pres district, arrived in the country as an illegal immigrant more than 30 years [...]

A Pakistani theatre group is set to blitz the capital Sunday with an explosive satire that debunks cricket mania, the pretensions of the American empire and the cliches of official diplomacy. “Lines Out Of Control”, scripted by Imran Aslam and directed by Yasmin Ismail of the Karachi-based Grips Theatre Group, parodies official postures and foibles [...]

Aaj TV provides round the clock news coverage from around the world in collaboration with partner news sources in more than 100 countries. Combining news reporting with analytical strengths provided by social and political commentators in Pakistan accounts for in depth and precise current affairs shows. On the Entertainment front, industry veterans are heading the [...]

After the tremendous success of Phantom of the Opera last spring, Shah Sharahbeel is back to rock the town with his latest theatre blockbuster Moulin Rouge, a play termed the event of the year at Lahore in 2003. The play opens on Friday as the grand finale of the Margalla Festival at the same venue [...]

Sabiha Sumar is happy to see her Pakistani film released in North America, but even if it became a Hollywood blockbuster, that wouldn’t be as important to her as seeing it screened in the villages of her home country. In our media-jacked culture, it’s almost impossible to imagine that an entire generation of Pakistanis has, [...]

The festival has been organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature Pakistan in collaboration with the Forum of Environment Journalist Pakistan and TVE Asia Pacific. It was attended by a large number of people, especially students, who keenly watched the thought-provoking environmental films, both in English and Urdu. Based on theme “Vision of Nature” [...]

Theatre lovers flocked to the festival where plays are being staged on different social issues by Pakistan and Indian theatre groups. Itt, written and directed by Shahid Nadeem, was first performed in August 1988 when bonded labourers in Pakistan were engaged in a bitter struggle against politically powerful brick-klin owners. The play was based on [...]

Peshawar University has a new state-of-the-art training facility that is being used to produce a variety of radio programs for broadcast around the region. The facility, established by Internews, will also be used to conduct trainings for professional journalists from both Pakistan and Afghanistan. The center – the first of its kind in Pakistan’s North [...]