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What price perfection? THE man is as elusive as Chiru, the shahtoosh-producing antelope — it’s almost impossible to get hold of him. He’s also just as precious, being the last man in Pakistani cinema...		PTV: the great exodus PTV, the channel that once reigned over the idiot box, now wears a deserted look courtesy the new channels that have mushroomed past and present, plus its own blunders. With some...
The woman who saved Burberry WHEN Thomas Burberry first designed the army officer’s raincoat in 1901 with the now ubiquitous beige, red and black check lining, he could never have foreseen it as the badge of...		STARBUZZ: LSA 2005 goes into gear It’s official. The Lux Style Awards 2005 will be held in Pakistan in the second half of this year. The announcement by Unilever ends the speculation whether the awards ceremony would...
Sweet stirrings of the sitar It was sometime in the late Eighties that we on this side of the Wagah border heard the name of a new and highly talented sitarist — Shahid Pervez — as...		The Expo 2005 experience One good thing about Expo 2005, notwithstanding the massive security and immense inconvenience caused to Karachi’s residents by the chronic traffic jams that accompanied the trade fair, was the fashion and...
MUSICBOX: Lahori love Indian singer Hariharan might not be a household name in Pakistan, but after Bolo, Bolo, his celebrated duet with Strings, he has gained considerable pop culture mileage in the local market....		REVIEWSPREVIEWS: Ray The Hollywood bio-pic is an often schmaltzy amalgamation of overflowing tributes and emotional hokum that sometimes glosses over the seedier details of stars’ lives (that’s often left to American tabloid entertainment...