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FOCAL POINT: The rejected classics With his crowd-pulling charisma intact, Zia Mohyeddin came and conquered the expectant crowd that packed the Aga Khan University Auditorium with a single glance. A variegated group of Karachiites, including students,...		SPOT LIGHT: Tribute to a poetess After mesmerizing audiences all over Pakistan with her lilting voice and classy renditions as a tribute to the late poetess Parveen Shakir, who died at the age of 42 eight years ago in a car accident on Islamabad’s Faisal...
FRONT SEAT: An evening of pop and blues As a pleasing zephyr kissed the sprawling lawns of the Marina Club situated next to the Arabian Sea, citizens were treated to the wailing drone of the blues from the land of the rising sun. It was the Mississippi Delta being brought to life on the Sindh coast...		STAR BUZZ: Down but not out Fakhre Alam or Falam for that matter, seems to be in the news one way or another. The reason to be in print now is a very painful one for him...
THEAT RICS: The sound and dark show The IBA plays are getting a trifle boring due to the same old hackneyed themes of boy-meets-girl-and-they-fall-in-love being recycled. But once in a while, a group comes up with a theme...		OVER VIEW: Nature is the best The third two-day travelling environmental film festival ‘Vision of nature’ organized jointly by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the TVE International Truth Talking Project and Forum of Environmental Journalists...
Listen please! A talk show for children consisting of three episodes named Ammi, Abbu Please was aired recently. Sultana Siddiqui, the producer provided a forum for discussions relating to issues important for the...		FOREIGN FRONT: When clowns try to get serious The funny man who wants to play Hamlet — who does have some fairly witty lines, after all — remains one of the great cliches of show business. Few comedians ever...
RISING STAR: Down to earth Glancing at the watch for the millionth time and muttering curses about punctuality being extinct in our culture, I heard the sound of footsteps. There she was, an unhurried young lady...		REVIEWS PREVIEWS: Perfect Pie Perfect Pie is a chick-flick about how visiting the past can heal present wounds as well as open up some old ones. The movie focuses on two friends Patsy (Wendy Crewson)...
FRONT SEAT: Honouring an ustad Seldom does one run into a person for whom no one has an unkind remark to pass. In this respect, as indeed in many other ways, Ustad Akhtar Ali Khan is...		MUSIC BOX: Cross border incursion Adnan Sami is no longer a Pakistani vocalist searching for stardom in his motherland where Badaltey Mausam, his last offering in 1997 was totally ignored. Instead, he is now the undisputed...