India’s first talkie ‘Alam Ara’ and Jinnah’s role in it
It was somewhere around 1930 when the idea of Alam Ara took root...
The resulting film was Alam Ara...
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ArchiveOBITUARY: Shamim Ara: end of a long-drawn agony
POPULAR star-turned-producer and later director, Shamim Ara, died in a hospital in the United Kingdom on Friday after a long-drawn illness...
Since there was no one to look after her, Shamim Ara’s only child Salman Kareem, who is an IT specialist in London, got her shifted to a hospital in the UK which specialised in neuro-related surgery, but her condition deteriorated...
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ArchiveColleagues pay homage to Shamim Ara
It was a condolence reference held at the Karachi Press Club on Thursday evening in honour of one of the finest actresses and directors of the Pakistan film industry, Shamim Ara, who passed away in London on Aug 5...
Speaking from London via phone, Shamim Ara’s son Salman Majeed said his mother loved Pakistan and wanted to come back to her country...
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ArchiveInMemoriam: 10 things you need to know about Shamim Ara
Pakistan’s film industry suffered a blow with the death of film veteran Shamim Ara, who breathed her last in London on August 5, 2016...
The naming gameAlthough Shamim Ara sounds like a perfect name for a leading lady, it wasn’t her given name...
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ArchiveTributes for Shamim Ara
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA) on Tuesday hosted an event to pay tribute to late actress and director Shamim Ara during which singers and dancers associated with the council put on performances on songs featuring the late actress...
Shamim Ara was born in Aligarh in 1938 and her family moved to Karachi in the early 1950s...
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Archive‘Machine’ Djokovic on brink of history at Roland Garros
PARIS: Novak Djokovic can become the eighth man to claim a career Grand Slam in the French Open final on Sunday when he takes on Stan Wawrinka who has described the world number one as a “machine”...
“He’s a machine,” said the 30-year-old...
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ArchiveSole seed germination machine dysfunctional
TOBA TEK SINGH: The only seed germination machine in the Ministry of National Food Security and Research’s seed certification and registration department has been lying out of order for the last two years...
The machine is meant to check viability and quality of seed for good production...
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ArchiveMachetes vs machine guns: Rohingya militants outgunned in Myanmar
He was reportedly born to a Rohingya family in Pakistan, before moving to Saudi Arabia — a theory backed up by the confident Rohingya and Peninsular Arabic he speaks in Arsa’s videos...
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ArchiveFootprints: rage against the machine
HARIPUR: The ride along the reptilian road to Central Jail Haripur is claustrophobic...
The shops straddle the road oppressively; the rush-hour traffic heaves -
ArchiveHospital’s angiography machine out of order for nine months
ABBOTTABAD: Angiography machine of the Ayub Teaching Hospital, Abbottabad, has been out of order for last nine months, as a result of which serious cases are referred to Peshawar and Islamabad...
Sources told Dawn that the only angiography machine catering to the needs of patients not only from the entire Hazara division but also of Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir had been out of order since August 2014...
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ArchiveUS Navy Seals turn into a ‘global manhunting machine’
NEW YORK: One of the US military’s most secretive special forces credited with killing Osama bin Laden — SEAL Team 6 — has morphed into a “global manhunting machine,” with limited outside oversight, The New York Times reported on Sunday...
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ArchiveESSAY: MAN MEET MACHINE
Some of the greatest science fiction films ever made revolve around the relationship between man and machine...
Can a machine develop consciousness or a soul? What, exactly, is meant by these terms? Is man “just” a machine?Both the Major and the Puppet Master yearn to evade their loneliness and become something greater than what they are...
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ArchiveNON-FICTION: RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE
In his 1953 essay, ‘Education for a Difficult World’, Bertrand Russell writes: “Young people ...
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PakistanPakistanis urged to acquire machine-readable passports
WASHINGTON: Eight million Pakistanis living abroad have been urged to immediately acquire machine-readable passports as hand-written passports were being phased out...
On Wednesday, Ambassador Jalil Abbas Jilani inaugurated the facility at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington...
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ArchiveAllied’s faulty MRI machine the bane of patients
FAISALABAD: Frequent malfunctioning of the sole Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine at the Allied Hospital is creating problems for the patients as well as the administration...
The MRI machine worth millions of rupees had been installed at the hospital in 2009 and its life span completed in June last...
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