Former Prime Minster of Pakistan (Late) Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto would be shown on the silver screen in 2012. A close friend of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and a leading British producer and filmmaker have decided to make a feature film on the life and achievements of Ms Bhutto. Dawn News further adds
Victoria Schofield and Farah Durrani, in collaboration with Insha Taqi Pauwels of Silverstream Productions, are working on the project. The film, titled “Benazir Bhutto - Destiny”, would be about the extraordinary courage of a daughter, a mother, a politician and a woman who risked all and paid the ultimate price when she was assassinated in Rawalpindi in December 2007, said a member of the team working on the project.
The team is at present finalising the script after which it will choose the cast. The film is expected to be released around the fifth death anniversary of Ms Bhutto in 2012. Victoria Schofield, a renowned writer and broadcaster on Pakistan and Kashmir, was a close friend and contemporary of Benazir Bhutto at Oxford. Their friendship spanned over 30 years from debates at the Oxford Union to Benazir’s first premiership in 1988. [click to continue...]
Great News for Pakistan Car Rally Enthusiasts - The Team Dreamworld is bringing us Car Rally 2010. The Rally is starting on 17th of January in Karachi. I think its a good time for families and friends to really have a nice outing and enjoy themselves. Would urge people in Karachi to make this rally a great success, so that more such rallies are hosted from time to time in Pakistan. So lets get down and known abit about the rally;
Dreamworld for ten years has hosted this event whereby over 1800 cars has participated in the decade long history of this event. The rally comprises of a 70 KM lap crossing almost all popular locations of the 7th largest city in the world, that is, Karachi where as the lap is distributed among 8 check points to let vehicles follow the concept of safety through limited speed.
The time check points are established at different locations in the city with each check point providing the contestants with a clue or a puzzle which should be solved in order to discover the next checkpoint for ultimately reaching the fortune at the Dreamworld resort. Each check point registers the time for each car in for which the points are awarded to the contestants for efficient time management.
The final destination of this treasure hunt is the Dreamworld Resort where after a ceremony full of fun and entertainment the final winner is announced on the basis of the time management points awarded with dozens of prizes. [click to continue...]
Mohib Mirza became the first Pakistani to win an award at the International Filmmaker Festival held in Kent, England. Mirza won the award for the Best Supporting Actor for the film ‘Insha Allah’, which also won the award for the best foreign language film. Directed by Khurrum Mahmood, the film was shot in Karachi, Pakistan and released this year in the United Kingdom. Actors, directors and movie buffs from around the globe attended the event where films were given special screenings.
Despite Pakistan being locked in an offensive against TTP terrorists bordering Afghanistan, which US officials call the most dangerous region in the world- fashioners in Karachi, shrug off security fears and celebrated Pakistani Fashion Week 2009. Karachi the southern city of 14 million people, known for its glitzy malls and thriving cafe culture is known for its love for fashion. The event showcased 32 local designers over the four-day event. So we bring pictures from this show , courtesy Associated Press and Dawn.
I just came across this shocking clip on YouTube of a Pakistani tv program by the famous channel “The Musik”. In the program “Living on the Edge”, the guy openly confess of an act of rape that he committed and talks out so proudly about it that i myself felt ashamed for watching it. I wonder how our Human Rights Organizations and our Judges missed it? Did anyone can dare to come forward and let the guy realize that he is not above the law of the land, no matter how strong is his family, he can still not go unpunished for raping a girl and then confessing it on a national television channel with such confidence! This is the way things go in our country and we can all understand the frustration of the girl who underwent the agony at the hands of this devil. It is time to highlight this incident and make sure that the guy gets the punishment he rightly deserves and the clip is shown on the same media on which he was so confidently and ruthlessly explaining his crime.
Unless, we start the campaign against such devils in our society, the day is not far away when they will be standing outside our door steps to punish us for our silence today.
One of the main feature of Eid Celebrations in Pakistan is decor of Mendhi (or Mehndi) by women of all ages. It is the application of Henna as a temporary form of skin decoration in South Asia, Southwest Asia, North Africa and the Horn of Africa, as well as by expatriate communities from these areas. Mehendi decorations became fashionable in the West in the late 1990s, where they are sometimes called henna tattoos. Henna is typically applied during special occasions like weddings and festivals. It is usually drawn on the palms and feet, where the color will be darkest because the skin contains higher levels of keratin which binds temporarily to lawsone, the colorant of henna. Henna was originally used as a form of decoration mainly for brides.
I have been searching for long about the progress of Pakistani gaming industry. Didn’t have much success , but found Shah-Soft.com one of the Pakistani based game developers on the web. I will be over a period of time bring down all the game developers in Pakistan to Pro-Pakistan.
About Shah-soft: its a very casual small development house , where simple fun and addictive games are made. While emphasis is on the basic aspects like graphics, gameplay, Sound , but special preferece is given to AI and fun which would make the games more additive.
We are small Indie Game Developers who are interested in making simple, intuitive and addictive video games. We are specially interested in Retro/Casual gaming but with better A.I, Controls, Gameplay, Graphics, Physics and well FUN!
I am not sure if the developers are still in the business or not as the website seemed to be dull and only a single game is available for download (Mines-xp). Most probably they are close now. [click to continue...]
COD4 Modern Warfare was the most selling game of 2008 over 10 million copies world wide. The multiplayer is described to be one of the best. Are there any Pakistanis in the ranking?
I dont want to brag about myself being a great modern warfare player , but KTFO servers did place me in the top 100 players (SiiD-Pak : Ranking 81). The number of players associated with the server reaches around 60,000. The ranking system is probably flawed as the players who seem to have the highest score is higher in the ladder. This is flawed as this doesnt necessary mean you are a good player, a player who is playing rubbish for 1 year is going to have a better ranking than someone who joinded 3 months back and is blasting everyone ! you got the point? its more time related rather than scoring ability related which should have been the way to go. Also players from UK seem to have better ping rate and hence more killing sprees!
Anyways - is there any other Pakistani who has better ranking than this? 81 ! I am yet to hear of any. If there is any please let me know;
Christopher Sandford has just released a new book about Imran Khan. The title of the book is Imran Khan with the tag line - The Cricketer, The Celebrity, The Politician. The book has also hinted at a possible affair between Khan and Pakistan’s former Prime Minister (Late) Benazir Bhutto while they were at Oxford University.
Brief Description Of the Book:
The definitive biography of Imran Khan, the former Pakistan cricket captain and all-rounder — the Oxbridge graduate and vociferous campaigner; the devout Muslim whose kaleidoscopic social life flooded the gossip columns; the man who raised $60 million for cancer research and who is now one of the most important political figures in Pakistan. On one thing, Imran Khan’s friends and enemies agree: it all began with the leopard print satin trousers. In November 1974, the Cricketer International published an article about the new elite group of young talented players, ‘into concepts like fashion and pop music’, and bent on challenging cricket’s eternal stereotypes.
The bookcover was earlier released with the Title - IMRAN KHAN , THE CRICKETER, THE PLAYBOY, THE POLITICIAN - it was lately revised to be IMRAN KHAN , THE CRICKETER, THE CELEBRITY, THE POLITICIAN.
Former Prime Minster of Pakistan (Late) Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto would be shown on the silver screen in 2012. A close friend of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and a leading British producer and filmmaker have decided to make a feature film on the life and achievements of Ms Bhutto. Dawn News further adds
