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Daily Archives: November 25, 2017

Saying it with flowers

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How flowers can brighten up sombre moments, how they add to the lives of the downcast, and how very aesthetic they are was the subject of a lecture by Australian floral designer Mark Pampling at a hotel on Friday evening. The lecture was sponsored by the Pakistan chapter of the World Flower Council. Pampling, in […]


No one can just become ‘Meera’, it takes years of struggle: Meera

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LAHORE: Renowned Lollywood actor Meera revealed that she will soon be among the top heroines of Pakistan. She said that she’s working on bigger projects now and a Karachi-based film director has cast her in a film which will serve as a breakthrough for her career. She also added that all the female actors now are […]


Documentary on Junaid Jamshed’s life set for release on Dec 1

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LAHORE-A documentary film on 30 years career of singer turned religious scholar Junaid Jamshed will be released on December 1. Pakistani American Imran Ahmad Khan, producer and director of the film ‘Ansoo’, told APP here on Thursday that his film will show the secret aspects of Junaid Jamshed’s life as a kind person. He said that last conversation of Junaid Jamshed before the […]


Second WOW Karachi festival to be held on December 2

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KARACHI: The British Council in Pakistan, Southbank Centre and TAF Foundation (TAFF), along with six local curating partners, are organising the second Women of the World (WOW) festival in Karachi. The event will start from December 2 and will run till December 3 at the Alliance Francaise. During the #WOWKhi 2017 programme review, young girls from […]


Award-winning Australian floral designer displays skills

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KARACHI: Award-winning floral designer from Australia Mark Pampling on Friday participated in a floral demonstration titled ‘Structured Harmony’ where different decorative techniques were discussed and exhibited in the midst of floral enthusiasts. Having been declared Australia’s floristry champion on several occasions, Pampling used a variety of flowers such as orchids, carnations and chrysanthemums, with foliage […]


Poetry and painting

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KARACHI: The inter-relatable aspects of various genres of art have now been well established. But very rarely, especially in Pakistan, does one see a painter doing an exhibition paying tribute to Urdu poetry and exploring his subject by looking through two distinct creative lenses. Artist Masood A. Khan has done this. His latest body of […]


Journalist shot, injured in Kohat

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KOHAT: A journalist was shot and injured in an attack under mysterious circumstances near his house in Garhi Atta Khan area of Kohat city on Friday. Aleem Haider Zaidi, a correspondent of a private TV channel, parked his motorcycle outside his house and fell down as he received a gunshot, according to a statement he […]


Bomb targeting Khyber journalists defused

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KHYBER AGENCY – Bomb disposal squad on Friday disposed of a remote-control improvised explosive device, which was allegedly fixed by militants to target the vehicle of local media person. Sharing the incident details, Tehsildar Tehseenullah said that local journalist Khalil Jibran, along with his four other colleagues, were on the way to Charwazgai checkpoint for the coverage of a […]