Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s narrative, A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness has been assigned in the Best Documentary – Short subject class for the 88th Academy Awards.
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A powerful image can take us back in time, and give us a better understanding of who we are and where we come from. The Express Tribune has compiled 59 images that have shocked, inspired, and moved us as a nation. Enjoy. August 1947 – Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Karachi As slogans of “Quaid-e-Azam Zindabad! Pakistan Zindabad!” echoed, Jinnah along with his sister, Fatima Jinnah, on August 7, 1947, landed in Karachi — a…
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1. Zahra Afridi This Hardcore Interior Designer runs her own company with her latest project being the Classic Rock Coffee Café in Islamabad. She also happens to have kick-boxing training, which is a very unconventional field for Pakistani women to be in. Are all the Afridis this talented? 2. Sana Mir Pakistan’s Women’s National Cricket Team Captain. She gave up her admission in an engineering degree to pursue this passion. 3. Samina Baig First Pakistani…
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Naseem Hameed is a Pakistani athlete, who became the fastest woman of South Asia on Monday, February 9, 2010, when she won the 100 meter event of the 11th South Asian Federation Games. It resulted in her earning the nickname ‘Queen of Tracks’, having covered the 100 meters in an astounding 11.81 seconds. She outran 40 different athletes in the competition. Started off at Age Fourteen: For Naseem, her career started when she was in…
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Hina Rabbani Khar (PPP) Pakistan’s youngest and first woman Foreign Minister, Hina Rabbani Khar began her political career in 2002 in the government of Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and subsequently served in the Finance Ministry and Foreign Ministry as Minister of State. After successfully contesting the 2008 general election, she served again in the Finance Ministry. She is famous for wearing attractive designer outfits, which remain the focus of media everywhere. Maryam Nawaz (PML-N) Maryam…
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