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Maliha Rehman is a seasoned fashion and entertainment journalist with over 15 years of experience, known for credible storytelling and exclusive insights. Currently writing for Dawn, her work spans top publications, blending glamour with thoughtful, in-depth perspectives.

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Maliha Rehman is a seasoned fashion and entertainment journalist with over 15 years of experience, known for credible storytelling and exclusive insights. Currently writing for Dawn, her work spans top publications, blending glamour with thoughtful, in-depth perspectives.

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“A Pak-Turk collaboration will be able to make Pakistani entertainment go international” – Adnan Siddiqui

“This could be the way that Pakistan will be able to go international,” prophesizes actor and producer Adnan Siddiqui. Adnan is talking about a recent agreement that is putting in motion plans

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Kickin’ it up, the Umair Jaswal way

“I am just really glad that I sang ‘Gagar’ for Velo Soundstation,” says singer Umair Jaswal. “It’ll be a break from ‘Sammi’ in concerts!” ‘Sammi Meri Waar’, sung with Quratulain Baloch in

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Cinemas continued to be closed because of the coronavirus but why are films still shooting?

There are film shootings taking place in Pakistan, as we speak. This wouldn’t be a surprising notion under normal circumstances but given the current state of local cinema right now, it raises

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“The ban placed on Zee5 streaming will only hurt our own industry” – Mehreen Jabbar …. Analyzing the Zee5 ban

  Pakistan, India and their creative collaborations have never historically worked out. The world may go on and on about art having no borders but the barbed boundaries separating these two nations

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Fahad Hussayn announces his ‘Grand Bazaar of Curiosity’ … and gets set to bring some magic back into fashion

Very few designers allow extreme close-ups of their designs, putting them out on social media, zooming in on the tiny threads intertwining into artistic florals, birds, reindeers, on a palette that is

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Celebrity stories from the Dark Side

What could be scarier than 2020? Nothing, really. The supernatural may be horrifying but it can’t compare to the real-life twilight zone that this year has been, with an all-pervasive, unfathomable pandemic

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Pakistani drama endings – and how they come about

Even the most predictable Pakistani drama may have an unpredictable ending. The in-laws may torture the woebegone bahu, the no-good husband may drive his wife to tears and the wily bhabi may

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Maheen Khan, coming full-circle

Circa 1982, a young designer called Maheen Khan returned to Karachi from Dubai and rented out a store in the Clifton area. ‘Maheen’, the store was eponymously titled, and it soon gained

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Does Pakistani media need to address social causes in a more sensitive manner?

“When media support comes in for a cause, organizations start working more fast,” said host Nida Yasir when she apologized for being considered insensitive while interviewing the family of Marwah, a five

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‘Are you Muslim?’ and other Pakistani behavioral traits on Instagram

It’s a jungle out there, on social media; rife with trolls, strong opinions and smart alecs who waver from being hilarious to being completely offensive. No one knows this better than Pakistan’s

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Airport swag in Corona times … Shamaeel Ansari’s ‘MASQUER-AID’

Months in self-isolation have lead the world to experience severe bouts of wander lust. Road trips have been trending with a lot of people hopping into their cars and heading off to

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Pakistani fashion’s obsession with being ‘King’ (or ‘Queen’)

Pakistani fashion has a penchant for royalty. Designers are often proclaimed as kings or queens. It could be traced back to our colonial roots and a subconscious affinity for the British Raj

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