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A large number of people have come in droves to celebrate ‘Basant’, Lahore’s famous kite-flying festival, on Azaiba Beach. It was like a mini Lahore as people came in colourful clothes to match the festive occasion which has become an annual feature and one of various cultural and social activities organised by Pakistan Social Club. [...]

Nargis said she wanted to make Pakistani artistes and commercial theatre popular in the West. ‘After every 15 days we will stage a new play in Toronto,’ she said. She said that she would take a delegation of Pakistani artistes to Canada. She said that there were many Pakistani film and TV artistes living in [...]

The Dubai-headquartered Geo TV, flagship channel of the Pakistan-based Jang group of media companies, has decided to shift from a single channel entity to being a full fledged network. On the agenda, is the launch of ten channels dealing in all genres. The ten being general entertainment, news, youth, lifestyle, music, kids, sports, movies, and [...]

The festival is being organised by the Delhi government, central culture ministry, Municipal Corporation of Delhi and NGO Seher. In the list of performers from Pakistan are Sufi maestro Iqbal Bahu, a descendant of Sufi saint Sultan Bahu, Krishna Lal Bheel, Fareed Ayaz Al Hussaini and the Sufiana qawwali brothers. The prominent Indian artistes include [...]

A 34-year old Pakistani living in San Francisco has just completed a feature film that is now ready for release. Hassan Zee, who is 34 years old and an optometrist by profession, will become the first Pakistani to have completed and released a full-length feature film in America when his Night of Henna comes to [...]

After the tremendous success of Phantom of the Opera last spring, Shah Sharahbeel is back to rock the town with his latest theatre blockbuster Moulin Rouge, a play termed the event of the year at Lahore in 2003. The play opens on Friday as the grand finale of the Margalla Festival at the same venue [...]

Sabiha Sumar is happy to see her Pakistani film released in North America, but even if it became a Hollywood blockbuster, that wouldn’t be as important to her as seeing it screened in the villages of her home country. In our media-jacked culture, it’s almost impossible to imagine that an entire generation of Pakistanis has, [...]

The festival has been organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature Pakistan in collaboration with the Forum of Environment Journalist Pakistan and TVE Asia Pacific. It was attended by a large number of people, especially students, who keenly watched the thought-provoking environmental films, both in English and Urdu. Based on theme “Vision of Nature” [...]

Villagers watched in amazement as Pakistani and Indian officers shared jokes, tea and snacks while they worked to open a road over a heavily-fortified border in divided Kashmir. The work on the road crossing the de facto border between the two countries in the Himalayan state of Kashmir follows decades of sniper and artillery fire [...]

Theatre lovers flocked to the festival where plays are being staged on different social issues by Pakistan and Indian theatre groups. Itt, written and directed by Shahid Nadeem, was first performed in August 1988 when bonded labourers in Pakistan were engaged in a bitter struggle against politically powerful brick-klin owners. The play was based on [...]