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Aamir Zaki, an odyssey of melody and anguish, lost forever!

The name Aamir Zaki needs no introduction as a guitarist-songwriter and composer from Pakistan. He was known for his uniquely melodic phrasing, feel, and tone. His debut album Signature was released in 1995, and Zaki was awarded a gold disc by Soundcraft UK for it. Since then there was no turning back for this maestro. The guitar virtuosos passed away due to a heart attack on June 2, 1997, due to heart failure. It had been an honour for me to catch up with him for an exclusive 1 on 1 a few days before his death, but I never had published this interview, savi

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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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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Land of my sires! What mortal hand can e'er untie the filial band that knits me to thy rugged strand! As APJ Abdul Kalaam said that if a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher and I agree with him. But what would happen of a society where these pillars are too busy making both ends meet of their lives with less or no time towards their children? There was once a time when it was said that it is sweet and fitting t

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8969 A Huge Jeewan Hathi Dobara Phir Se

We often speak about revival of cinema in Pakistan, and I had always been arguing that revival is for things that are in oblivion, but here our Lollywood was never forgotten, yes, it may be on a recess due to various factors but was never extinct, and, recently there has been a wave of new film makers experimenting all genres of film-making, from Drama to History, to Comedy to Thrillers. For a country where an entire generation grew up without ever having seen the inside of a cinema, a new cinema going culture has arrived and is by all accounts being embraced with the

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