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2 months ago | 
dawn.com | Maliha Rehman |Rafia Zakaria
Director Shahid Shafaat The drama’s credits boast the name of a renowned writer, associated with some great TV scripts from the past. But the drama that you see is not great at all. The characters behave erratically, there are predictable twists and turns and the dialogues deliver heavy doses of cringe. It’s as if the script has been written by a group of college students who have been given carte blanche to set new benchmarks in TV drama tackiness.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Maliha Rehman |Shahid Mehmood
Have you shot any fashion campaigns lately?” I asked a photographer recently, well-known for his magical way with lighting and composition, hoping that he would open up his cellphone and show me some of his most recent, best work. He nodded grudgingly. “Some, but mostly corporate work. Have you seen fashion these days?”Tragic. Heartbreaking. Distressing. These are adjectives in the lexicon that I have been using with increasing frequency as I write about Pakistani fashion. I do not do so with relish.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Maliha Rehman
Hair; here, there, everywhere! A shock of curly orange hair mingled with a strawberry pink mane, a sandy blonde bob, glossy brunette waves, highlights, lowlights, mixes of ombre. There were braids, futuristic wigs and hair blown up into experimental frizzy clouds.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Maliha Rehman
I tell my team that if I’m not number one, I am not playing.”Nabila says this matter-of-factly — it’s something that anyone who knows her, knows already. For four odd decades, she’s introduced trends, set new benchmarks and defined style for Pakistan.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Maliha Rehman
Ali Javeri Jewellers | Photos: Catwalk In days of yore, when Pakistani fashion was charting its meteoric rise, events used to be very glamorous, very upper-crust, utterly swanky. The décor would be exquisite and a glossy runway, set against an artistic backdrop, would exude excitement. A discerning, select crowd would sit on either side of the catwalk, viewing the show with extreme interest, all set to splurge a few millions later on the designs that it wanted to buy.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Maliha Rehman
Photography & coordination: Alchemists | Grooming: Shetty @ Trio Salon | Special thanks to Saraphine Andrew Long time no see, Ahad Raza Mir. Aside from ubiquitous commercials, the actor was last seen on Pakistani TV screens two-odd years ago, in the hit Ramazan sitcom Hum Tum. He had been Adam Sultan, the wisecracking, sarcastic, good-looking boy-next-door that the heroine, along with a considerable TV audience, had fallen in love with.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
images.dawn.com | Maliha Rehman
Seeing a catwalk, ablaze with lights, laid out in a crowded auditorium, brought on a sense of nostalgia. There was a time when the catwalk was all in a day’s work for the media fraternity, an imperative part of the multiple fashion weeks and shows that would be littered all through the yearly fashion calendar. Now, though, with the local fashion industry grappling with a mercurial economy and a dearth of sponsorship, the catwalk rarely makes an appearance.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Maliha Rehman |Ahmed Bilal Mehboob
Seeing a catwalk, ablaze with lights, laid out in a crowded auditorium, brought on a sense of nostalgia. There was a time when the catwalk was all in a day’s work for the media fraternity, an imperative part of the multiple fashion weeks and shows that would be littered all through the yearly fashion calendar. Now, though, with the local fashion industry grappling with a mercurial economy and a dearth of sponsorship, the catwalk rarely makes an appearance.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Maliha Rehman |Abbas Nasir
Give Asma Abbas a meaty acting role and she can make it spectacular. Give her the role of a truant wife, of a mother devoted to her handicapped child, of a woman with a constantly varying moral compass, or of a grandmother delivering hilarious one-liners, and watch her shine. This is something that I have observed often while watching the actress in a particularly interesting role.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Maliha Rehman |Abbas Nasir
Photography & styling: Raza Jaffri | Hair & make-up: Sajjad Ali @ Angie’s Salon | Coordination: Umer Mushtaq She’s Baby Baji at the moment. It’s a character that television audiences have been very enthusiastically connecting with actress Samina Ahmed since they got smitten by the daily soap of the same name which aired last year. But Baby Baji is only the most recent role to be associated with the actress.
