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Welcome, To The Usman Aman’s Lounge Blook

Here I am with my all new blog “Usman Aman's Lounge - Blook”, something that I may term as a socializing coffee partner. At times I used to think that what may be my mission in life? For sure it is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humour, and some style because life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. I always noted that Pakistanis who live abroad has a very wrong perspective about their homeland and somewhat they propagate it among their colleagues and friends who are not Pakistanis. If

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What Will People Say

Sameen nearly stumbled in her rush, breezed past a corner, just about dodged an incoming pedestrian who yelled something about patience behind her, and only just relaxed when she could see the cafe's sign fifty meters away. She flew in, oblivious to the many disapproving looks aimed in her direction, seemed to telepathically know where her friends would be, honed in on them like a homing missile, sat down by forcing some space on the sofa into existence, and interrupted whatever tripe conversation she assumed they would be having. Four horses cannot overtake the ton

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Shirin Farhad Once More

From Turkey to India who may not be familiar with Shirin and Farhad and their tragic love story. The encounter between Shirin and Farhad is part of a longer and much more tragic love story of Shirin and Khusrow. The love story of the Sāsānian King Khusrow II (r. 590-628 AD) and Shirin, the Christian princess from Armenia, is based on figures recorded in Firdawsī Shahnameh.  The romance begins before the pair meet, they fall in love after receiving physical descriptions of each other. Khusrow travels to Armenia to find the beautiful and accomplished woman who has captur

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The Chase Begins With A Farewell

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I am saying goodbye not just to colleagues, but also to friends, my greatest source of inspiration. “It is hard to say goodbye to a project which has been less of a work and more of a life. I will miss you all and I am sad that the joyride of working with you all has to come to an end. I bid you all good-bye.” Said Usman Aman the off going director of the movie Taaqub – The Chase Begin, during a farewell organized by the movie’s new director Talha Ghouri at his famous photography school, the event was attended

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United We Stand … Divided We Fall!

As per what I was taught in my school the name of my beloved country “Pakistan” is an acronym for Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Indus and Tan representing Baluchistan. I absolutely thought that the word Pakistan was first coined in a pamphlet famously known as Pakistan Declaration written and published by Chaudhary Rahmat Ali, in which the word Pakstan without the alphabet ‘I’ and was used for the first time and was presented in the Round Table conferences in 1933. But the people of subcontinent were quite familiar with the word Pakistan much before Pakistan Movement because

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