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Female Dancers Sana, Salma, Afsana Ambushed

By Sharafat • Mar 16th, 2010 • Category: Misc

A young female dancer was killed while her two sisters and two other co-performers escaped unhurt as they were waylaid on their way back from a dance party in Hindko Damaan area on the outskirts of the provincial capital early Sunday morning.
Afsana, a young dancer who used to perform at wedding [...]



Tere Bin Laden Songs Download at Official Website

By Sharafat • Mar 15th, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

‘Tere Bin Laden’ is a tounge-in-check comedy about an ambitious young news reporter from Pakistan who is desperate to migrate to the US in pursuit of the American dream. His repeated attempts to immigrate are shot down as his visa is always rejected. But when things couldn’t look worse he comes across an Osama Bin [...]



Top Twitter Client

By Sharafat • Mar 10th, 2010 • Category: Technology

We’ve written about Twitter client Sobees, which is working to create the best social media client on the market, competing with both TweetDeck and Seesmic. Today Sobees is releasing a new version of its Windows native desktop app built in .NET, complete with realtime search, a redesign and more.
The new client includes support for Facebook, [...]



Waqar Younis lands lucrative contract as Pakistan Cricket Coach

By Sharafat • Mar 7th, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

PCB chairman Ijaz Butt said on Saturday that Waqar Younis has been given a contract until December 2011 and will be paid a monthly salary of 650,000 rupees to work as Pakistan coach.
He said Wasim Akram, another former Test paceman, was also considered for the coaching job. “We had a choice in between Waqar and [...]



Pakistani Female Celebrities without Makeup; Dont be scared

By Sharafat • Mar 3rd, 2010 • Category: Entertainment


Dolce & Gabbana Shows Sheer And Retro Collection

By Sharafat • Mar 1st, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

What happened to sex in the city – Milan, that is?
Far from the body-clinging styles that gave Italian designers their sexy reputation, the preview collections for the fall winter 2010-2011 are all about dressing like a lady.
Even Dolce&Gabbana, the now grown-up enfants-terribles of sizzling fashion, have cooled down the look for next winter, presenting a [...]



The Dumbest Things Beauty Queens Have Ever Said

By Sharafat • Feb 26th, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

Explain the Confucius quote “Learning without thought is labor lost”: “Good evening, Panama. Confucius was one of whom invented confusion and that’s why, uhh… One of the most ancient, he was one of the Chinese…. Japanese who were one of the most ancient. Thank you.”
What is the most important event in our nation’s history? “In [...]



Israeli Cult Leader Faces Sex Charges

By Sharafat • Feb 16th, 2010 • Category: Misc

Some men dream of having a harem. According to police, Goel Ratzon fulfilled this dream.
Ratzon, 60, was indicted Sunday on multiple charges including rape, sodomy, enslavement and sexual abuse within the family. Ratzon, who lived with 21 “wives” and had 49 children was the leader of a cult for many years.
According to the prosecutor, the [...]



PayPal, Venrock Incubate BillFloat To Develop Innovative Payment Services

By Sharafat • Feb 15th, 2010 • Category: Technology

We got a tip recently about a startup called BillFloat, which sports a rather limited website with nothing but a logo and a call for fresh engineers. The intriguing thing about BillFloat, however, was this sentence on the placeholder website: “We are a PayPal and Venrock backed startup re-defining a $100 billion market and are [...]



Recover Punjabi Girl in 10 Days

By Sharafat • Feb 14th, 2010 • Category: Misc

The Lahore High Court Chief Justice on Wednesday directed Punjab Inspector General Police (IGP) Tariq Saleem Dogar to recover an abducted girl within ten days and produce her in court.  The CJ was hearing a suo motu notice taken on an application of one Irshad Bibi of Gujrat who complained about non-recovery of her 14-year-old [...]