Award-winning migrant actor Abou Sangare allowed to stay in …
5 days ago · An undocumented 23-year-old Guinean migrant living in France who won a prize at the Cannes film festival last year has been granted a work permit, enabling him to avoid deportation, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Abou Sangare won rave reviews as the lead actor in last year’s film L’Histoire de ...
The Pakistan Academy Selection Committee couldn’t be more …
5 days ago · It’s a historic Oscar season for Pakistan and the Pakistan Academy Selection Committee (PASC) jury couldn’t be more proud of where Pakistani cinema is heading in the international circuit. In a statement issued by the committee, it said that for the first time in history, a Pakistani film has ...
Filmmaker Nabeel Qureshi pays tribute to Om Puri on his 8th …
Jan 7, 2025 · Filmmaker Nabeel Qureshi paid tribute to Indian actor Om Puri on his eighth death anniversary, saying he still can’t believe he passed away. Puri starred in the Pakistani director’s 2016 film Actor in Law, and Qureshi highlighted that …
‘Yikes’ — PIA’s misplaced advertisement for flights to Paris is ...
4 days ago · Our very own Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is resuming flights from Islamabad to Paris, and unveiled a rather interesting advertisement announcing the news.. In an X (formerly Twitter) post, PIA edited their plane flying right towards the Eiffel Tower, with France’s flag splattered across the sky in a decreased opacity, and let’s just say, the red of the flag next to …
From tea trolleys to swiping right — marriage culture’s come a …
6 days ago · Yet, it comes as a shock for most elders today when women say they do not wish to be married. An August 2024 Gallup & Gilani Pakistan survey found that 80 per cent of adult Pakistanis are married, with women being 12pc more likely to be married than men. Rural residents are 8pc more likely to be married than their urban counterparts, indicating a trend of …
Celebrities flee, Hollywood events postponed as wildfires rage in …
5 days ago · Jamie Lee Curtis, Mandy Moore, Maria Shriver and other celebrities were among the tens of thousands of people forced to evacuate their homes to escape the out-of-control wildfires burning around Los Angeles.. The largest blaze consumed nearly 12,000 acres in Pacific Palisades, a picturesque neighbourhood between the beach towns of Santa Monica and …
Review: Talha Anjum’s Kattar Karachi shows Karachi without depth
Jan 7, 2025 · Although this one act has the right motive (nothing else in the film carries any), one wonders when things turn this dark. To give this particular scene its due, there had been a foreshadowing about the perceived grisly nature of the city (Karachi is not as bad as films make it out to be, I tell you!), and the villains’ approach to offing people.
Mira Sethi on the woes of being an author in the ‘Golden Age of …
6 days ago · Writers know that it’s cathartic when you’re unleashing your traumas on the page (or your laptop) even if it is a bunch of “lies”. The author then congratulated those writing in the “Golden Age of TikTok”, hinting perhaps at the increase in trashy novels that often commence from social media or fanfiction sites and end up published.
Eating our way through Karachi Eat 2025 - Local - Images
3 days ago · This was a controversial one. We tried the Hot Mulled Spiced Wine (not that kind) and the Panino Pesto Carne, and half of our duo loved it and gave it an eight while the other half gave it a six on 10.. Mulled wine isn’t for everyone, so we can’t fault our team for that one, but this writer highly disagrees with their rating of the Panino, described on the menu as lamb fat …
Taking 460 bars of Dubai’s pistachio chocolate to Germany is a …
5 days ago · German customs officials confiscated 90 kilogrammes of luxury Dubai chocolate from a woman last month at Hamburg airport that was subject to hundreds of euros in import duties, they said on Wednesday. People have queued for hours to buy the chocolate bars, made popular on TikTok, and filled with ...