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Younus Khan: Rekindling the charm cricket once had
Fans of Pakistani cricket were not able to watch their team playing at an international level, but enjoyed the same emotional feelings through other sports; at the biggest stages including FIFA World...
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Why have the Pakistani liberals forsaken Gaza?
Now’s the moment for a liberal to decide if he truly stands for the principles of liberalism, wherever applicable, or if he’s simply saying the opposite of what his conservative uncle shouts at the...
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#PyareAfzal versus Nawaz Sharif’s speech: And the winner is…
Last night, while Pakistani men were anxiously waiting for the premier’s speech, to be aired at 8pm, the women had a completely different, and might I add ‘dramatic’, agenda to grab hold of the TV...
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It’s just a Pakistani thing…
Distances don’t matter if there is true love involved, I strongly believe in this. I may not live in Pakistan anymore but that doesn’t mean I don’t love it or have forgotten my country. I have been...
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Shocking, funny and likeable experiences of Pakistan
My friends and family were concerned about my health when I told them that I would be fasting during Ramazan, but my Pakistani friends all assured me that I would go back home “fatter than ever”. Food...
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Wagon-wheel pasta: A little taste of Tuscany on your Pakistani plate
So if you are amongst 95% of the people of the world, you are probably intimidated by cooking. So was I, once upon a time. To look at a well-cooked dish was like looking at the great pyramids;...
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Dear Advertisers, no, we do not start dancing in the streets when we sip on tea!
A few days back, while I was on my way to college, I came across the road near Expo Centre, where the traffic was choked. Naturally, I flipped my hair and smiled at the people in the neighbouring cars;...
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Tamanna: A step in the right direction for Pakistani cinema
There has to be something about a movie where a Pakistani audience sits silently in cinemas, where mobile texting and chatting during a movie is the norm otherwise, and watch two lead characters...
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Raja Natwarlal: Humaima, ‘Pakistan’s Rani’, fails to rule the Indian Box Office
Yes, Emraan Hashmi is back in his ‘serial kisser avatar’ in Kunal Deshmukh’s Raja Natwarlal. This time Emraan is blessed with both: his serial kissing traits and his power packed spontaneous...
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How deep-rooted is religious intolerance in Pakistan?
Statistics have labelled Pakistan one of the world’s premier terrorism affected nations. However the one silver lining in the cloud of an extremist attack is a unified chant of ‘yeh hum naheen’ (this...
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7 types of Pakistani immigrants you’re likely to come across in Canada
It’s been a little over a year since my immigrant status got confirmed in Canada and I have met some interesting kinds of Pakistanis. Immigrants who tend to fall in a certain ‘type’. Even I fit in...
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10 things Pakistani and Indian drama industries need to do
Pakistani dramas are suddenly all the rage across the border yet again. Indian actors like Paresh Rawal, Kajol and Javed Jaffrey have praised them as a new channel, Zee Zindagi, is playing the best...
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Pakistani drivers: A nation or a mob?
It is said that the way people drive in a country tells a lot about how disciplined and orderly its citizens are. Well, I realised this on two occasions; first, when I came back to Pakistan from the...
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#NaMaloomAfraad is a riot on its own!
The term “Na maloon afraad”, in recent times, has become almost ubiquitous and synonymous with those unknown/anonymous miscreants that are up to no good at all vis-à-vis to any law and order situation...
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A French, a German, a British and an awesome Pakistani
“Pakistan? Where are your burqas?” “We don’t wear one”, I gestured to my friends and myself. “Yeah, of course – not on holidays. But you know, the ones you’re forced to wear in Pakistan.” Laughing with...
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Proud of ‘Gullu’ making it to Oxford Dictionary? Think again!
The moment I read news regarding the word ‘Gullu’ being added to the Oxford Dictionary, I felt completely dumbfounded. Like as if something that shouldn’t have happened, did happen, and in the worst...
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Ban the bowlers, ban them all!
After depriving the world of the most glorious sight in international cricket – Saeed Ajmal in all his grace, splendour and beauty giving an interview to Nasser Hussain after a match – the ICC plans to...
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Dear Advertisers, no, we do not start dancing in the streets when we sip on tea!
A few days back, while I was on my way to college, I came across the road near Expo Centre, where the traffic was choked. Naturally, I flipped my hair and smiled at the people in the neighbouring cars;...
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Why can’t we buckle up?
Pakistan’s television industry has seen from amazing times – when classics such as Dhoop Kinarey charmed viewers all around the country as well as across the border – to the not-so-amazing times, when...
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O21: Comically bad?
Perhaps the most impressive thing about O21 is that it was made at all. Aside from the fact that this bi-lingual Pakistani film boasts a talented cast of both Pakistani and foreign actors, and is...
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