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My thoughts on the mega buster Race now playing across Karachi in select cinemas, starring Saif, Katrina, Bipasa, Akshay Khanna & Anil Kapoor Saif Ali Khans Sunglasses are the best thing in this movie. Akshay Khanna has more hair on his chest than his head. Biapasa makes hay burn and Katrina pale in ooomph factor….
On the way to my kids school at the unearthly hour of 7:00am today, i couldn’t help but notice the massive banner campaign launched all across Karachi by China Mobile, ala their Zong plan for our market. I have been following China Mobiles purchase of 88% of Paktel recently but was surprised with the speed…
For the last year and a half, a lot of hue and cry has been made about how the Pakistani cinema is dying and what can be done to revive it. Growing up here in Karachi I have always wondered how our music scene just keeps getting better and better while our cinema just worse…
7 months ago i started this blog. I did it only for the sake of saving some of my published pieces online, something of a virtual vault of my printed work or an online resume for any would be appraiser of my writing skills. From there though, through the support of a lot of people,…
Finally, the PCB have had the spine suddenly appear in their respective backs to take this decision which has been pending, hounding, nay banging on the doors of our conscience for a while. The Pakistan Cricket Board has today announced its decision to BAN Mr Shoaib Akhter for a period of 5 years. Not just…
I think no politician in the history of the human race, starting right from the foundation of the senate in ancient Rome to today, has contributed this much in hilarity to his listeners. Obviously for the last 8 years no one has had much of a choice but to listen either. However in my salute…
After nearly four decades of uninterrupted peace, the ground beneath the inner circle of the blue stones at Stone henge is being dug up. Stone Henge as most of us know is that mystical feature on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England comprising of circles of stones set upright in the earth for a purpose…
After having watched Fitna released on youtube by Geert Wilder, i am disappointed frankly. I thought perhaps his hype would merit something startling, but instead he just takes ayats from the Quran..translates them totally out of context and accompanies them with extremely violent and emotional imagery from recent history. Its nothing fascinating or startling to…
With the famous words “We call upon Makhdoom†the PPP put Yousuf Raza Gillani as its prime candidate for the post of premiership of this land of the pure. He was further described in many interviews that followed and on talk shows which will be tearing him apart very soon, I would think in about…
Two days ago on Wednesday the most eminent visionary and dreamer of the last century passed away in Sri lanka. Arthur C. Clarke was not just the man who gave us fascinating works like “2001 A Space Odyssey (originally his book “The Sentinel”) but he was a visionary of the highest degree. When he was…