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Articles with tag: Fashion

Revolutionary for Sale

jehanzeb khan   Jan 9, 2008   interacts: 9

Clothing plastered with the portrait of socialist revolutionary Che Guevara is possibly one of the oddest and most self contradictory phenomena's of the 21st century.

Q for Qachas

Hassan Nasir   Apr 7, 2005   interacts: 9

Meera & Co. in shorts, doing Zuhr work-out at Fortress and leading Maghrib aerobics at Minar-e-Pakistan would do PR wonders for Nachta - Koodta Modern Pakistan.

Why Fashion Matters

Khadija Hassan   Feb 19, 2005   interacts: 15

According to Frieha Altaf, “Fashion in Pakistan is and always has been for the elite. It has two effects: a trickle-up effect, when street fashion comes into the main-stream; and a trickle-down effect, when fashion moves from the elite to the masses

Thank you George

Shandana Minhas   Jan 27, 2004   interacts: 17

In the wake of September 11, the ‘Muslim world’ has fallen headfirst into an identity crisis. While falling on one’s head is generally quite painful, the fall was buffered by the fact that the ‘Muslim world’ doesn’t rea

A Pocket Full of Faux Pas’

Khadija Hassan   Dec 22, 2003   interacts: 20

That’s the problem with money. It stifles creativity – instead of discovering one’s own style and sense, instead of honing one’s own eye by being forced to invent, to innovate one can just go and acquire another’s. Whether i

The Blackboards

Jagmohan Chadha   Jul 3, 2003   interacts: 14

Here is a bit of advice from some body who knows. Never be the middle child in the family if you can help it. Especially if your older sibling is the perfect son/daughter.

Bari Imam’s Republic of Peeristan

Hala Malik   Jul 2, 2003   interacts: 46

Before, this disease was limited to the illiterate population of Pakistan, but now it’s becoming more of a fashion for literate and well-known people to be seeing some Pir or Sufi. It’s the latest new trend.

Lanka - A Small Sashay

arti buxi   Jun 27, 2003   interacts: 15

On a fine March morning, I too packed my passport and landed into the hassle free Colombo airport. The way I see it, supreme happiness is ‘Visa on Arrival’.

Travels through America - Deep Thoughts

Nazar Khan   Mar 5, 2003   interacts: 44

Finally, it was one sight that took my heart and left a lasting impression on me of the beauty and simple innocence of a human being...

The Peshawar Rhapsody

Banjaara    Jan 13, 2003   interacts: 26

the most exciting city of Pakistan for its ancient ambience and romantic history of the proud pathan tribesmen who repulsed all attackers

A Comparison of Fashion

Omar R Quraishi   Nov 2, 2002   interacts: 82

I thought this would be a great chance to go see and judge where our fashion industry stood compared to India’s

The Kal Aaj Aur Kal of Secularism

Harish Nambiar   Sep 23, 2002   interacts: 124

There is a generation growing distant from religion, and yet engagingly indulgent of it. Not so much as a pathway to salvation as much as a familiar lane of the past.

The Evolution of The Burqa

Mohammad Qadeer   Mar 23, 2002   interacts: 206

It literally draws a curtain around a woman

Miss India, Huma, and my photo

Rehana Aslam   Jul 4, 2000   interacts: 26

my friends have even volunteered to pay for another photo

Unquestionable Changes?

Sobia Aslam   Jan 25, 2000   interacts: 42

Where did the sehra go?...once a part of the ~QThings to wear on the Big Day~R manual for men...

Aitchison: Scenes From Within

Asim Hayat   Mar 3, 1998   interacts: 25

...the old architecture, the grand cricket pitch in the main grounds, the smell of the rose bushes, the water heater radiators which never functioned well...

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