Loving Islamabad on October 21, 2019I have always loved Islamabad. A picturesque haven of bliss with a scenic backdrop of lush mountains, green valleys and beautiful planning, it was built in the 1960s to replace Karachi as the capital of Pakistan. A successful amalgamation of both urban and rural, it has developed a distinctive identity of its own with architecture […]
Lady Boss: Meher Iqbal Talk with the Dubai-based Jewellery designer, CEO of Meher Jewellery on October 20, 2019We’ve all heard about the fabulous dinners and GTs by Pakistanis living in Dubai. But when we see one of our own doing so well abroad and building a business by sheer hard work and creativity, it truly adds to it all (and we do love a success story especially when it’s a Pakistani woman). […]
Joker the Movie on October 14, 2019The movie ‘Joker’, directed by Todd Phillips, starring Joaquin Phoenix, has already collected a cool total of with $93.5 million in ticket sales over the first weekend and still going strong. Theatres were fully booked across states, I heard as family and friends vied to get seats. The movie depicts the origin story of the […]
Being Sultana Siddiqui on October 6, 2019Our correspondent sat down with Sultana Siddiqui, the President of HUM Network Limited, which is one of Asia’s largest and most successful TV networks. Known as Sultana Apa (older sister) out of respect in the industry, the media mogul initially made her mark as a producer in the state-owned channel, PTV. With hard work, she […]
Aaj Ka Random: The Photography Group on September 28, 2019September 20, 2019. The much-awaited Facebook photography group show opened at the Alliance Francaise in Karachi. The Facebook group now boasts of over 7000 members. It started from Pakistan and now covers people across the world from different walks of life. Interestingly enough, it was noted that 70 per cent of the members of the […]
Destroying Earth to reach the Moon: Kashmir under Siege on September 22, 2019The inhumane lockdown in Kashmir is now 50-days-old yet little seems to have changed. If any food item and medicine shortages abound, schools with shops closed, the Kashmiris continue to look towards the world to help them find a way out of isolation. The whole region has been converted to an open-air prison or solitary […]
En Route to Jinnah’s Pakistan on September 15, 2019With the ardent patriotic zeal that sprouts up with each gazetted national holiday portrayed by ad campaigns and arbitrary quotes in mass media which dies down soon after, I wrote this article after everything passed, so that the impact of such would although be seemingly random, would not let the conversation die down and maybe […]
Perspective: Mehwish Hayat Speaks on September 8, 2019The star has suddenly grown into an “ambassador” of social issues. Recently, very much in the news with a controversial win, we saw the sudden viral wave of Mehwish Hayat’s videos and speeches. She had suddenly blossomed into an “influencer,” what seemed like, almost overnight. One scrambled to google her persona, her social and personal […]
Reaching Summits: Samina Baig on August 24, 2019On 19th May2013 a figure was witnessed approaching the Mount Everest Summit, clad and covered with extensive climbing gear. Inside the padded clothes and masked face, one could not have made out whether it was a male or female-when Samina Baig, a 22year old mountaineer, started crying inside the mask on her face. These were […]
Leaving behind a digital foot print: Sadaffe Abid on August 17, 2019Recently seen making waves in the news as far as Social Entrepreneurship was concerned, we speak to Sadaffe Abid, the founder of CIRCLE– the Women’s Tech organisation gradually taking over Pakistan. Encouraging women from all spheres of Pakistan to invest in themselves through investing in tech concentric ventures, Sadaffe tells us about her efforts to […]