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Pakistani Girls Problems on Public Transport

By Amna Gilani • Jun 20th, 2013 • Category: Features

Drivers of public transport buses and vans have numerous back mirrors in front of their driving seat. The drivers set those mirrors in such a way that they could see the ladies sitting behind him from every angle, upside down and left-side right, and right-side left. In Pakistani public transport, normally the section behind the [...]



Mystery of My Life

By Rabia Naseem • Jun 16th, 2013 • Category: Features

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
My life gives me everything such as cooperative family. I have 1 brother and 3 sisters as time passes [...]



Exclusive Interview with TV Anchor Ajmal Jami

By Ghazala Khan • Jun 8th, 2013 • Category: Features

1. Please tell us briefly about yourself, as where you were born, grew up and studied.
I was born in a small town “Zafarwal” near District Sialkot. But now it is in District Narowal very near to boundary line between India and Pakistan. I opened my eyes in a military cantonment because my father was in [...]



Job Hunt Dilemma in U.A.E for Pakistanis

By Ahsan Abbas • Jun 5th, 2013 • Category: Features

Recently I have been through to the subject exercise from Feb to Apr this year. It was daunting experience in many ways. Job hunt is not an easy task by any means in any part of the world. Due to unavailability of adequate positions in our home country (due to many reasons which are well [...]



Beauties in the National Assembly of Pakistan 2013

By Sharafat • Jun 2nd, 2013 • Category: Features

Everybody will miss Kashmala Tariq in the new assembly, but the new parliament which has just sworn-in in the Islamabad has got it’s own fair share of charming and lovely ladies who lavishly displayed and showed off their designer clothes, shoes, hand bags, jewelry and the artwork of beauty saloons on their faces and figures.
Though [...]



Fauzia Kasuri ; Na Khuda Mila Na Visal-e-Sanam

By Sameer Shaharyar • Jun 2nd, 2013 • Category: Features

Fauzia Kasuri is the real face of change of Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf. She has been left in the cold shuddering lonely while the power brokers grab the juicy and lucrative slots. Not only she is standing there sobbing with empty hands, her husbands Khurshid Kasuri has also received a resounding defeat in the general elections, and [...]



Exclusive Interview with TV Anchor Matiullah Jan

By Ghazala Khan • May 31st, 2013 • Category: Features

>     1. Please tell us briefly about yourself, as where you were born, grew up and studied.
I was born in Rawalpindi on 2nd Nov 68. We are 7 brothers and sisters. My father Lt.  Col Retd Abdurazzaq Khan Abbasi and mother Fehmida Akbar brought me up in Cantonment areas of Rawalpindi, Bahawalpur, Gujranawala etc. we [...]



10 Lessons Learned from Election 2013 in Pakistan

By Dr. M. A. Khayal • May 26th, 2013 • Category: Features

Post-election hubbub is in high pitches as usual magnified higher by the ever-excited and breaking-news crazy electronic media of Pakistan. Victory celebrations, rigging allegations. angling and tilting of different media person towards different parties, hopes from the upcoming government and secret wishes of some for it to fail as quickly as possible are no different [...]



Exclusive Interview with Politician Fawad Chaudhry of PPP

By Ghazala Khan • May 25th, 2013 • Category: Features

1- Please tell us briefly about your childhood, education, family, and career.
I was born in 1976,my father Nassim Hussain was second son of Ch.Awais a respected farmer of District Jhelum. Ch Awais my grandfather was president of All India Muslim League District Jhelum in 1938 he was also vice chairman of District board Jhelum. Later [...]



Jism Farooshi In Karachi and Lahore — لاہور میں جسم فروشی کا دھندھا

By Amna Gilani • May 23rd, 2013 • Category: Features

While returning late home sometime from friend’s home, I always wondered why some ladies were standing alone in bright makeup and bold yet cheap dresses around the chowrangis along the way. I even started recognizing a regular face near the chowrangi where I took turn towards my locality.
One night, as she was standing there, I [...]