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Bollywood Actress Manisha Koirala and Juhi Babbar, daughter of yesteryear actor Raj Babbar are set to appear for the first time in a Pakistani movie titled Piyas to be produced by Khalil Rana…

“The institution of clubs took roots in the Subcontinent with the advent of the British Raj. Starting from Calcutta, which became the first imperial outpost and the capital, was launched the once most exclusive Royal Bengal Club. It was the forerunner of many such clubs and almost every major town in due course could boast [...]

A town in Punjab, which borders both India and Pakistan, has become an example of communal harmony with its heterogeneous demography. It also witnessed a historic wedding that was even televised live. The couple overcame political differences to be together. Malerkotla town lies in the prosperous north Indian state of Punjab. After Pakistan separated from [...]

While Mahesh Bhatt plans to cast Pakistani actress Meera in his supernatural thriller Nazar, Kamal Haasan wants to make a love story spanning the two countries with a Pakistani actress in the lead. The two sides seem to be coming closer than ever before through cinema. Amidst reports that Islamabad might lift the nearly 40-year-old [...]

People gather at Karachi’s Clifton Beach on Saturday evening to witness a rare blue moon, which was last observed in Pakistan in 2001. adnan ali

Shehzad Roy won the Viewers’ Choice Award for the highly-contested best male singer category in a ceremony held on 24th of June in Lahore. Beating heavyweights Ali Azmat (Junoon), Ali Zafar, Najam Shiraz, and Fakhir – each a tough rival in his own right – Shehzad Roy bagged the award on this pleasant summer evening. [...]

Over the years it has been called the mountain of mountains, the savage mountain and in more contemporary parlance, a death trap. So perilous is K2, that Hollywood movies have been made that dramatically chronicle its perils. Fifty years ago on 31 July, two Italian climbers, Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni, braved wind, rain and [...]

The government came out with a clear cut policy in the National Assembly on Friday regarding showing of Indian movies in Pakistan, saying screening of Bollywood films would help the government in collecting millions of rupees in taxes. Minister for Culture and Tourism Rais Munir Ahmed told the lower House during the question hour that [...]

The scars around her eyes were visible even before the young Pakistani woman lifted her veil, showing TV viewers the burns suffered when her husband doused her with kerosene and set her on fire. Such a spectacle until recently would have been too shocking for Pakistani television. But two private cable-TV channels — one beamed [...]

The Capital Development Authority seems to have woken up to the need to make Islamabad a child-friendly city. The city has just one park for children called Japanese Park. Now the CDA has planned to construct playgrounds and tennis, volleyball and basketball courts at 17 different locations, a CDA official told Daily Times on Tuesday.