Acclaimed artist and author Kiran Shah has published her inspiring book Pink Shoes and Jilbaab: Not Your Average Hijab Guide through Passionpreneur Publishing and the book would be available via major players in the global book distribution field.
Pink Shoes and Jilbaab is a witty guide for young Muslim women who might be toying with the idea of hijab. In this book, Hijab Lifestyle Advocate Kiran Shah shares valuable insights, walks the readers through her personal experiences, and shares her wisdom on how to tackle between respecting your values and living the Hijabi life with confidence.
The author, who took up Hijab at the age of 25 has had her fair share of struggles fitting in and finding her place after making this decision. Kiran Shah, who is also a Women Empowerment Coach, Emotional intelligence, NLP, and Corporate Trainer, shares how her modest attire hasn’t stopped her from achieveing her dreams, in a fun and peppy way.
The book is now available to inspire readers across the globe through the IngramSpark distribution network and other affiliates which will cover print-on-demand across the UK, Europe, USA, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East. The e-book is available in 25+ online bookstores like Amazon, Kindle, Barnes & Nobles and Apple Books in the Middle East. It is available in Liberty and Dawah Books in Pakistan.
7th Sky Entertainment brings another fun-filled and romantic telefilm Teri Meri Kahani starring Haroon Kadwani & Sehar Khan
7th Sky Entertainment is known to provide its viewers with exciting content and it is back yet again with another saga of love and secrets starring the charming Haroon Kadwani, alongside the beautiful Sehar Khan.
This romantic comedy revolves around two young people, Armaan and Zara, both belonging to the same neighborhood. They are very different from one another, one ambitious and the other driven by fun and non-seriousness.
When their paths cross, and they ultimately fall in love with each other, they realize that their desired endgame is not without hurdles and obstacles.
This engrossing story of love is produced by the dynamic duo of Abdullah Kadwani and Asad Qureshi, scripted by Saima Akram Chaudhary, and directed by ‘Aehsun Talish. The ensemble cast also includes Javed Sheikh, Bushra Ansari and Usmaan Peerzada.
Don’t forget to watch ‘Teri Meri Kahani’, all set to air on Saturday the 3rd of April, 2021, at 9pm only on Geo Entertainment.
Abdullah Kadwani and Asad Qureshi together have built a brand with an amazing success rate. One cannot skip thinking about the award-winning serials like Khaani, Romeo Weds Heer, Ramze Ishq, Dar Khuda Se, Muqaddar, Meherposh, Deewangi, Kahin Deep Jale, Mera Rab Waris, Dil Kya Kare, Ghar Titli Ka Par, Bharosa Piyar Tera, Dil-e-Gumshuda, Daam, Doraha, Mirat-ul-Uroos, Meri Zaat Zara-e-Benishan, Mere Meherbaan, Mere Charagar, Roshan Sitara, Aik Pal, Noor-e-Zindagi, Khaali Haath, and the list goes on.
Committed to the cause of quality content, 7th Sky Entertainment is the most successful production house in the industry.
After consecutively providing its audience with one hit after another, See Prime has now released a short film by Fayyaz Khan Lodhi, ‘Dil Kya Karey’, solely based on love, expectations, and desires, starring the duo of Ali Ansari and Inaya Khan.
The story of this film revolves around a girl who moves to a new town for a job. There she falls in love with a young man who fails to acknowledge her existence. She continues daydreaming about him nonetheless until one day she comes face to face with him and ends up surprised at what she discovers. What happens at the end of the film is a sad surprise for the viewers.
When asked about the short film, the executive producer, Seemeen Naveed went on to say, “This film is a perfect depiction of how when it comes to having dreams about love, it doesn’t matter what flaw you have, you are free to find solace in your own self. The cast and team have worked very hard to make this concept come to life.”
This enlightening tale is scripted down by Dilawar Khan, produced by Faheem Inayat, Hashim Iftikhar, and Afnan Ahmed Siddiquie under the banner of Asbestos Productions. It is now available for viewing on See Prime’s YouTube channel.
Atif Aslam to make his HBL PSL opening ceremony debut, Imran Khan, Humaima Malik and the HBL PSL 6 anthem stars to also provide rich entertainment on Saturday, 20 February evening
Karachi, 14 February 2021: The HBL Pakistan Super League 6 will start with a glittering opening ceremony on 20 February with an entertainment-packed event which will include renowned artists including Atif Aslam, Imran Khan, Humaima Malick and the HBL PSL 6 Anthem artists: Naseebo Lal, Aima Baig & Young Stunners.
Internationally acclaimed singer Atif Aslam will be making his first appearance in the HBL PSL opening ceremony, the league has been launched every year with a colourful opening ceremony since its inception in 2016.
Renowned rap artist Imran Khan will also be making his debut at the HBL PSL stage.
The HBL PSL 6 opening ceremony will be have some parts filmed offshore in a specially designed studio space in Turkey.
The first four ceremonies were held at the Dubai International Stadium while the 2020 opening ceremony was staged at the National Stadium Karachi, and the same venue will play host to the 2021 ceremony.
As has been the tradition in earlier editions, the opening ceremony will be followed by the first-match of the season, defending champions Karachi Kings will play Quetta Gladiators in the night match.
Director Commercial PCB Babar Hamid: “This year promises to be really exciting especially the state-of-the-art technology being used to create this experience for Pakistani fans. As always, the excitement of the opening ceremony is further raised with the opening clash of the tournament, and the people in Karachi, I am sure will look forward to see Karachi Kings and Quetta Gladiators take the field as they both enjoy a huge fan base in the city.”
The ceremony will be aired on PTV Sports & Geo Super. The opening ceremony start time will be revealed in the coming week.
• The anthem has been sung by Naseebo Lal, Aima Baig & Young Stunners, the music video features Shadab Khan, Sarfraz Ahmed, Shan Masood, Babar Azam, Shaheen Shah Afridi & Wahab Riaz
Karachi, 06 February 2021: The HBL Pakistan Super League 6 anthem, “Groove Mera” has been launched today. The anthem will be playing on leading TV channels and will also be available on HBL PSL digital platforms throughout the 2021 edition of the most popular Pakistani cricket event of the calendar.
Continuing the rich tradition of entertaining HBL PSL fans with a new anthem for each season, “Groove Mera” refers to the swing and feel of the movements of cricketers. It refers to moments of finesse that one finds in the heart of every cricket match.
This year’s anthem also reflects the realities of the Covid-19 pandemic. As majority of the fans will be watching Pakistan’s biggest sporting event remotely, this anthem cheers both players on the field and their fans at home as they celebrate their groove!
The anthem is a celebration of Pakistan’s musical diversity. The mix of artists is particularly exciting as it represents artists from opposite ends of Pakistan’s musical spectrum. The anthem brings together voices from Pakistan’s rich musical landscape: regional folk and urban sounds of pop and hip-hop.
Singer Naseebo Lal is an industry veteran and cultural icon, whose grasp over regional tradition is acknowledged by fans and music critics across the country.
Aima Baig is considered the pop symbol of this generation, having voiced some of Pakistan’s biggest hits in the past few years. Alongside these two powerhouse female artists, the HBL PSL 6 anthem features hip-hop superstars, Young Stunners, who with their grounded voice and social outlook have gained an unprecedented online following.
The video, directed by Fida Moin, includes six leading cricketers who would be featuring for their respective franchises in the tournament, the players are Shadab Khan (Islamabad United) Shan Masood (Multan Sultans), Sarfraz Ahmed (Quetta Gladiators), Babar Azam (Karachi Kings), Shaheen Shah Afridi (Lahore Qalandars) and Wahab Riaz (Peshawar Zalmi).
Director Commercial PCB Babar Hamid: “The HBL Pakistan Super League 6 anthem ‘Groove Mera’ is the latest addition to the blockbuster anthems that the league has produced over the years. Each year we have endeavoured to produce top-quality HBL PSL anthems and all our previous anthems have made a big impact and have been received very well by our fans in Pakistan and abroad.
“This year’s anthem has been sung by the legendary Naseebo Lal and features the hugely popular star Aima Baig along with the young sensation Young Stunners. We are confident that the fans will appreciate the anthem and it will make them groove like the anthems of the past did.
“Meanwhile, we are fully focused and as always working around-the-clock with the sole intention of delivering another exciting and world-class edition of the HBL PSL which will once again provide rich entertainment through quality cricket with some of the biggest T20 stars in the world plying their trade at the National Stadium and Gaddafi Stadium.
“The fans in Karachi and Lahore that will be re-entering the stadiums after a year-long gap, will have a lot to look forward to both with in terms of the on-field action and ‘Groove Mera’ entertaining them in the stands!”
Naseebo Lal: “It feels great to be a part of the anthem because I have never done a song like this where I have enjoyed myself so much.”
Aima Baig: “I feel overwhelmed – it’s been an amazing journey and I’m really thankful for the opportunity. The vibe of the anthem is very street and urban with elements of festival EDM.”
Young Stunners, Talha Younis: “I’m honoured to be a part of the HBL PSL 6 anthem and it’s been an excellent experience. This time the HBL PSL has tried something different and out-of-the-box and I feel like
Research suggests that in the last five decades the Earth is rotating faster than it ever has. This has made experts realize that 2021 could become the shortest year in decades, even shorter than 2020.
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However, this does not mean that we will be celebrating 2022 shortly. In fact, the time difference will be so nominal that we will not be able to notice that. The earth will move faster only a few milliseconds. That is, it!
All this is happening because our planet is moving faster on its axis. This is making days shorter and no one exactly knows the reason behind it yet.
Scientists believe that a number of factors are responsible for this difference including motion of the Earth’s molten core, its atmosphere and the oceans.
Understanding Time
One day is the time required by the Earth to complete its rotation around the sun. In order to measure this time period, experts have come up with hours, minutes and seconds.
It is anticipated that a day will be 0.05 milliseconds shorter than a regular 24-hour day in 2021 because of the Earth’s fast speed.
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Understanding Leap Years and Leap Seconds
The concept of leap years is known to many of us. in leap years, after every four years, a day is added to February to ensure we match the pace of the Earth.
Similar to the concept of leap years, leap seconds were introduced and since 1972, 27 leap seconds have been added to our clocks. However, since 2016, no leap seconds have been added because the earth is now moving a little bit slower.
It is said, that if the situation goes around like this, we will soon have to take away a leap second from our clocks to match the movement of the earth.
Thinking about how this will be done? Let us leave this to the experts!
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[Karachi 15 January 2021] Muhammad Ayan and Muhammad Aman, born as conjoined twins to Mr. and Mrs. Israr Ahmed, are now living as two healthy children after a successful separation surgery performed at the Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) on 12 December 2020.
Ayan and Aman were Omphalopagus type of conjoined twins, in which the bodies of the two are joined at the abdomen and several internal organs are shared, including liver and sometimes the intestines. The twin brothers shared a small portion of the liver.
Credit: AKUH
‘It was an extremely challenging journey for us. Before coming to AKUH, I had a dream that Ayan and Aman were separate. That dream gave me hope’, said Israr, while narrating the events that led him to AKUH. ‘My family and I were convinced that this hospital is for the rich and receiving treatment from here will never be a possibility for us. But, my Allah made the Aga Khan University Hospital the saviour of my children. The doctors told us to not worry about the expenses, as they would be taken care of by the Patient Welfare Programme.’
Conjoined twinning is a very rare congenital anomaly, with an overall incidence of 1 in 250,000 births. This happens when the embryo does not separate successfully in the mother’s womb to form two individuals. Although there is no known cause for the conjoining, it can be diagnosed early in the pregnancy through an ultrasound.
While surgery is the only method of separating the conjoined twins, it cannot be performed in all cases. This is because the complexity of and survival rates after the surgery depends primarily upon the joining sites and the type and number of organs joined internally.
Credit: AKUH
To perform this exceptionally difficult surgery, a multi-disciplinary team of highly skilled healthcare experts came together to meticulously plan and organise their efforts. These teams included Doctors, Nurses and Technicians from Paediatric Surgery, Anaesthesiology, and Radiology amongst active participants, and Gastrointestinal Surgery and Neurosurgery amongst those on stand-by. The nature of this surgery is such that it demands double the amount of resources and concurrent functioning of all teams to manage and save both lives.
Prior to the surgery, an advanced imaging and three-dimensional prototyping was used to fully understand the nature of the conjoining, expertise required and necessary reshuffling of the resources. Dr. Zafar Nazir, Paediatric Surgeon at the Aga Khan University Hospital, led the efforts to perform the 8 hour-long surgery with the support of over 50 clinical and administrative staff.
‘This is a rare surgery that the Hospital has performed for the second time. A tremendous amount of effort went in to the rearrangement of the resources, both inside and outside the Operating Room. But, at the end of this procedure, it was a joy to watch both the boys get a new life’, commented Dr. Zafar Nazir as he recalled the events of the treatment.
The role of the anaesthesiologists was of great significance, as they had to ensure that both the babies were stable throughout the procedure. ‘The perioperative care of Ayan and Aman was like no other. As they were joined at the torso and facing each other, a complete incision required flipping them around. Therefore, we could not have intubated them, as it would have hampered the movement. We opted for an intravenous drug and ensured a thoroughly managed sedation throughout the procedure’, recalled Dr. Faisal Shamim, Anaesthesiologist at Aga Khan University Hospital.
Israr Ahmed and his wife are not the only parents to have gone through this pain and suffering of finding the appropriate treatment. There are many such families who are in dire need to receive compassionate care and high-quality treatment. Treating such rare and critical health conditions offers the experts at the Aga Khan University Hospital, a commendable opportunity to test and enhance our systems and capabilities, and learn to design innovative health solutions for our people in Pakistan. But, most importantly, it gives us immense joy to watch distressed families go back home healthy and happy with their loved ones.
Pakistan is amongst the few countries where polio virus is still spreading. While other countries have used vaccine and other preventive measures to get rid of this virus, Pakistan is still struggling to vaccinate children and change mindsets of people regarding this vaccine at the same time.
Recently, Polio Vaccine Drives have been happening frequently to contain the spread and eradicate the virus. For this very reason, frontline workers and their efforts must be appreciated. They go home to home in order to ensure that no child under the age of 5 remains deprived of the vaccine, no matter what the circumstances are.
From the current ongoing Polio drive, a video has been circulating on social media. The video is from a remote area of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), which seems almost inaccessible due to knee-high snow. However, the brave polio workers are still making their way to their designated areas. The objective is to make sure they give vaccines to the children and prevent the further spread of the poliovirus.
Source: The official Twitter account of the Pakistan Polio Eradication Initiative
The video hails from the north-eastern part of the AJK.
In order to reach far-fetched areas, Polio Eradication Program has joined hands with the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI). The goal is to make more and more children immune to the polio virus.
Soon after the video was uploaded, everyone started applauding the brave women who are moving ahead despite of obstacles and are dedicatedly doing their job.
Here is to hoping that we will soon be able to achieve a Polio-Free Pakistan.
The Role of Rotary International in Polio Eradication
Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than 35 years. Our goal of ridding the world of this disease is closer than ever.
As a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, we’ve reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent since our first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979.
Rotary members have contributed more than $2.1 billion and countless volunteer hours to protect nearly 3 billion children in 122 countries from this paralyzing disease. Rotary’s advocacy efforts have played a role in decisions by governments to contribute more than $10 billion to the effort.
Today, polio remains endemic only in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But it’s crucial to continue working to keep other countries polio-free. If all eradication efforts stopped today, within 10 years, polio could paralyze as many as 200,000 children each year.
More power to all frontline healthcare workers.
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A few months ago, Atif Aslam received a notice from the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) for tax evasions. Now the latest update on this news is that the renowned signer of Asia still has not paid his income tax. Considering this, another notice has been given to Atif Aslam by the FBR to submit his dues worth Rs 58 Million in a month.
According to reports, Tu Jaanay Na singer was sent the first notice by the FBR in November. He was informed that his flats in Dubai are not mentioned in his taxation details. This leads the FBR to send an official income tax notice to the singer.
Source: Instagram/Atif Aslam
Today, another follow-up notice has been sent to Atif Aslam after carefully auditing his 2018 income. The notice mentions that Aslam has to submit Rs 58 Million in 30 days, local media reported.
Aslam has been given a month’s time to submit this amount. Failing to do so in the given time will result in freezing his bank accounts. The FBR will then be able to recover the said amount from his frozen assets, claims the Federal Board of Revenue.
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In the light of Tax Laws in Pakistan, people are allowed to pay their taxes in Pakistan or the country they have assets in. This saves them from paying the taxes twice.
The FBR in Pakistan is very active and every now and then, we see it sending notices to the artists. Earlier, it was Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and Sana Fakhar who were notified for the very same reason.
Saba Qamar and Noor Bukhari too have been investigated by the FBR for their incomes, however, the matter was sorted out when they showed evidence of not being involved in any kind of tax evasions.
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Nadia Khan Shares Here Valima Pictures and We Are Loving Them
Nadia Khan, a renowned actor, model, producer and budding YouTuber, recently tied the knot for the second time. She looked absolutely breath-taking on her big day.
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Days later, she also introduced her husband, a retired Wing Commander, Faisal Mumtaz Rao, to her fans and we could not help but appreciate the couple and wished them all the best for their future life.
“My husband Wing Commander Faisal Mumtaz Rao is a retired PAF officer and fighter pilot. Born in Lahore in 1970, Faisal joined Pakistan Air Force as a commissioned officer in the 90th GDP course back in 1991. He is known to be one of the most competent and distinguished pilots with 30 years of Flying and Management experience with leading air forces of the world,” she wrote in the post.
Nadia Khan got married in an intimate ceremony and took to social media to share details about her wedding. Soon the pictures were everywhere and people were showering the newlywed couple with blessings and prayers.
Now Khan is again making it to headlines because of her valima pictures in which she looks even more beautiful. The Valima Reception, too, took place privately in the presence of family and friends. Here is a sneak peek into the event.
Nadia Khan was the centre of everyone’s attention in this pink attire with a no make-up look. She paired her dress with gold jewellery that was complimenting the look completely. Her husband Faisal Mumtaz Rao was dressed in a grey suit.
Nadia’s three kids from her previous wedding and Rao’s father can also be seen in the pictures. Khan has also shared her complete wedding and valima albums on YouTube. Click here for her Valima album.
