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 [...]
Akmal Shaikh’s journey from a minicab business in north London to death row in a remote part of north-west China is a labyrinthine tale involving eastern European gangsters, harebrained business schemes and a dream of international pop stardom.
It began in Kentish Town, north London, where Shaikh lived with his British wife and children. The couple [...]
My wife Zahra and I recently decided to move back to Pakistan. Many friends in London seem puzzled by our decision. That is understandable. Pakistan plays a recurring role as villain in the horror sub-industry within the news business. It is, we are constantly told, a place where car bombs go off in crowded markets, [...]
There is no doubt that this is the most difficult times for Pakistan. The administrative and the military infrastructure is under attack and the morale of the public is all time low. Democracy was hope which has diminished and people have stopped caring.
In these difficult times for the country, the leaders are safely tucked. President [...]
Sometimes, I just shook my head in bewilderment over the statements of my leaders, who seem to become so elusive and disconnected from the ground realities on their foreign trips. More or less every ruler has this syndrome and current president is no exception.
President Asif is once again on his favorite pastime of foreign trip [...]
News and rumors are popping up everywhere and there is volley of SMS and emails lamenting that the present government is selling the land of Pakistan to Americans and to the Saudians. It is being said that many airports in Pakistan including Shamsi airport, Jacobabad airport and other airports in remote areas have been handed [...]
I went to Peshawar to buy a new CD player from the Bara market. These days it’s hard to get to the markets of Peshawar due to law and order and also due to dearth of smuggled goods but during the era of General Pervez Musharraf, despite of war in Afghanistan and terrorism in FATA, [...]
Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver (July 10, 1921) is a member of the Kennedy family and helped to found Special Olympics in the 1960s as a national organization. Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S.A., she is the fifth of nine children of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy.
Kennedy was educated at The Convent of the Sacred [...]
The truth is that the nation is baffled and numb, as they don’t really have any idea as how much they are paying for what and how much anything has increased and they dont have any impact by any decrease in the prices. The prices of everything are so high that an overwhelming majority of [...]
