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Posts Tagged ‘Islamabad’

Fiza Signature Launch

By The Partylicious • Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

Renowned model and actress Fiza Ali recently launched her very own designer label: Fiza Signature with an exhibition put together by Verve Events at Nai Rang Art Gallery, Lahore. Showcasing her Ready to Wear Spring & Summer 2010 collection, Fiza is also planning to host more exhibitions in Islamabad, Karachi, and Faisalabad to introduce people [...]



The ‘Deepak’ Philosophy!

By The Partylicious • Mar 8th, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

Some 15 years ago, Fifi Haroon tagged him as the bad boy of Pakistan’s Fashion Industry. Now, Deepak Perwani wants to shed off that image and is ready to be a nice boy. And it doesn’t stop there. He’s bored. Even though he has had a successful showcasing at Milan Fashion Week as recent as [...]



Iblees Ka Sajda

By Kaptain Mirza • Dec 28th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The awaited NRO is defeated and buried but unearthed the same old faces who would want to come back for a kill yet sometime again, if we falter. We have been for the last 62 years. The glimmer of hope that each one of us awaited finally came. Reaching there seemed easy but for how [...]



PTCL Entertainment at PTCL Buzz

By Sumaira Bajwa • Nov 17th, 2009 • Category: Misc

PTCL has become the first company in Pakistan to provide Broadband services in over 100 cities across the country, whereas before PTCL’s entry into the Broadband [...]



Under siege

By Chris Cork • Nov 14th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Visiting Islamabad even as recently as a year ago was a treat. A break from the dust of Bahawalpur, a place were I could spend hours browsing bookshops, taking leisurely lunches with friends or visiting an art gallery. In the evening, window shopping in Jinnah and Super and Kohsar or a truly scrumptious ice-cream in [...]



L’Oreal Paris - 100 Years Celebrations

By The Partylicious • Oct 28th, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

L’Oreal Paris celebrated 100 years of beauty and innovation with a fabulous show in Karachi earlier this month that was the talk of the town.
The event was jointly put together by Lotus PR & Wow Factor.



The Golden American Biscuits and SWAT - The Heaven of the Eternally Displaced Undead Souls. Eternally..??

By Kaptain Mirza • Oct 3rd, 2009 • Category: Politics

Let’s wander down the lanes of Kashmir which rocked to the tunes of the reverberating and scared mountains, whilst beneath them the earth was angered. Angered and filled with transgressions unpardonable.
Come October 8th and the fate of Kashmiris on this side was sealed away into ignoble and oblivious history. The 3 million displaced Pakistani Kashmiris, [...]



We are the ones we’ve been waiting for

By Muskan Hina • Sep 25th, 2009 • Category: Politics

There is nothing more powerful than hearing someone speak from their heart. We Pakistanis need to converge on one platform, become one voice and then with deeply felt conviction demand our rights. We need to change the way we are ruled and we need to change the way we live and we go about our [...]



Khuda Zameen Se Gaya Nahin

By Guest Blogger • Sep 14th, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

The production work on a mega drama serial on the isuue of militancy and terrorism “Khuda Zameen Se Gia Nahin” is in full swing these days. Written by renowned writer Asghar Nadeem Syed the Serial is being directed by a young director Kashif Nisar. Rich on the feelings of nationalism, sacrifice, valor and fighting spirit, [...]



US Occupation of Pakistan: Phase one is complete

By A Khokar • Sep 1st, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Pakistanis are watching it happen in the streets of Islamabad. The recurring nightmare has become a grim reality here that after watching last 8 years the horrors of the U.S. invasions and occupations of Iraq and neighbouring Afghanistan, the exterminators and executioners of “war on terror” have finally arrived in The Land of the Pure—-Pakistan. [...]