Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy wins Pakistan’s second Academy Award (Oscar) for “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness” in the Best Documentary (Short) Category at the 88th Academy Awards

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s documentary, A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness has won an Oscar award in the Best Documentary – Short subject category at the 88th Academy Awards. Indeed Obaid-Chinoy previously won Pakistan’s first Academy Award for her documentary Saving Face at the 84th Annual Academy Awards in 2012. She is one of […]

LALA Launches Flagship Store at Ocean Mall Karachi

LALA Textiles proudly inaugurated their first Flagship store at Ocean Mall in Karachi featuring a diverse range of products comprising of unstitched printed fabric for both day wear, evening wear, roll fabric, a special signature series range and its debut LALA Pret. Photography Credits: Kashif-ud-Din & Take II  

L’Oréal Makeup Designer Paris launches ‘Life in Pink’ – A Beauty Film

L’Oreal Paris, the world’s leading beauty brand launches “Life in Pink – A Beauty Film”. Inspired by the international campaign La Vie En Rose which saw renowned artist, John Legend, starring for L’Oreal Paris; the beauty film marks the launch of the brand’s Exclusive Pinks, lipstick collection, by Color Riche. An international declaration of love […]

The 12th Edition of Pakistan’s Biggest Bridal Extravaganza Telenor Bridal Couture Week to Hit the City Of Lights in May

Entering into its 6th successful year, the 12th edition of Pakistan’s biggest bridal extravaganza, Telenor Bridal Couture Week is slated to be held from May 6 to May 8, 2016 at the Palm, Karachi. Organized by Pakistan’s numero uno general entertainment network HUM Network Limited, TBCW in its 12th installment will present the latest bridal […]

The Pakistan Fashion Design Council set to introduce a brand new platform: The PFDC Fashion Active

In continuation of the PFDC’s commitment to drive, elevate and innovate within the business of fashion, The Pakistan Fashion Design Council is proud to introduce the PFDC FASHION ACTIVE, launching with their inaugural exhibition on February 26, 2016. The PFDC Fashion Active [TPFA] is a brand new platform whereby the PFDC endeavors to introduce a […]

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif watches Academy Award Nominated Documentary “A girl in the river” by Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy

A special screening of Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s Academy Award nominated film “A Girl in the River – The Price of Forgiveness” was held at the Prime Minister House today in Islamabad. The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, had earlier met with Academy Award winning filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy in Islamabad to discuss the […]

Art

I can’t draw. I can paint, sometimes. But it’s not very good. I can write though. Not too well, but well enough. I can’t express myself sometimes.   But I can hug. And a hug can be sometimes more than a painting or a song or even a piece of literature.   And like all […]

Couture for your Lips: Luscious Introduces Liquid Lipstick

Luscious Cosmetics reveals an exciting product to start 2016 with the introduction of a new range of their critically acclaimed Lip Couture Melted Lipstick, available online and across retailers as of January 16 2016. In tune with the global craze for liquid lipsticks, the collection includes 16 shades. With a diverse colour palette ranging from […]

Pepe Jeans Introduces New Happy Hour Patch Work Collection

Pepe Jeans London: ALL PATCHED UP New for winter 2016, the launch of Pepe Jeans London’s Happy Hour “patchwork” collection, a capsule range that takes its style cues from the season’s prevailing penchant for the Sixties and Seventies. Available in stores, the collection once again goes back to the brand’s Portobello roots, imagining a cool […]

7 Compliments That Are Actually Underhanded Insults

Technology has made it so much easier to convey our opinions about things that never really mattered to us before. It takes a nanosecond to compose and post a comment on someone’s Facebook status, reply to a tweet or give your remarks about their ‘outfit of the day’ on instagram. In a sandstorm of content […]

[Press Release] – Coca Cola joins hands with TBL for new CSR project

TBL – Triple Bottom-Line, a sustainability advocacy platform working to promote CSR in Pakistan since 2007, is now launching a unique initiative, the National Volunteer Programme (NVP), initially in Karachi, and later expanding it nationwide. NVP’s Vision is “to strive for a just and prosperous society in which the marginalized will emerge from distress through […]

Season 3 of ‘Tonite with HSY’!

Following the success of the 2nd season of the show, HSY is all set to dazzle audiences with Season 3 of much appreciated late night show “Tonite with HSY” The first episode of the new season featuring cricketers Shoaib Malik and Ahmed Shehzad was broadcasted nationwide on 6th February, 9:00 pm PST on HUM Sitaray. […]

Thespian Nadia Jamil Offers A Voice Modulation Workshop For The Cast Of Haissam Hussain’s Feature Film ‘Balu Mahi’

It seems the Pakistani Film Industry is becoming extremely serious about striving for professional perfection. Celebrated and very in-demand director Haissam Hussain has recruited theater thespian, TV actress, anchor, producer and educationist Nadia Jamil to offer a week-long workshop on voice modulation and script reading for the cast of his upcoming Rom-Com feature film ‘BALU […]