With its velvety sofas and soft lighting, Pakistan’s first bar looks and feels like it could be in any western city, with prices to match.
But instead of glasses of wine or pints of creamy beer, the counter is lined with tubes that dispense a tipple more befitting a good Muslim country: pure oxygen.
The Oxygen Bar, in a suburb of Pakistan’s cultural capital, Lahore, is the first public bar since alcohol was banned in 1977, in a country where most socializing is done behind closed doors and where alcohol is – …

With all the negative publicity and flak that Meera has received in Pakistan thanks to her recent performance in Mahesh Bhatt’s Nazar and subsequent interviews to the Indian media, it is not surprising that the actress is now avoiding interviews like the plague. However, hurt and angry as she is, she agreed to give an exclusive to Imagesin which she confirmed that she had been fined by the government for her role in the film. The following are excerpts:
On her role in Nazar
I have done nothing to be ashamed of …