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The Pageant Trap – A Tale of Danger Intrigue and Betrayal

  I am here proudly presenting my debut novel, THE PAGEANT TRAP which has just been released. The Pageant Trap is a tale of an international beauty pageant taken over by unsavoury characters is full of danger, intrigue, and betrayal. A contract between the pageant’s organizer and an events coordinator is broken before the contestants are even in the air to attend the pageant. Things go from bad to worse, as the group is housed in first one hotel and then another, none of which are the five-star hotels they were promised. One of the girls is kidnapped, and scary-looking men

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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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P for Parents

Once upon a time there was an era when stories about abandoning parents by children were heard, frowned and associated with the firangi culture and shunned off by saying that it is common in the western culture that young people abandon their parents in old homes. However, the changing time did not had any mercy to Pakistan and unfortunately, this custom is becoming a part of eastern society as well. Every now and then, we come across an old home accommodating old parents who have been deserted by their children.   In today’s time parents are seen as a burden and are o

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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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Noor Jehan – Own Way of Inspiration BY Mansoor Vohra

When the name Noor Jehan resonates in my ear I can only relate with two Queens whose names have been recorded in history for their golden rules and their sense and sensibilities. One Noor Jehan ruled India and the other Noor Jehan ruled hearts, though both the Empresses had different territories as rulers both did not fail to impress anybody with their sense of fashion and style. The first Noor Jehan, the Empress of the Mughal Empire. A strong, charismatic and well-educated woman, she is considered to be one of the most powerful and influential women of the 17th century Mu