Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s eldest daughter has recorded a tribute rap song dedicated to her late mother.
Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari, currently a student at Edinburgh University, posted the track ‘I Would Take The Pain Away’ on YouTube.
“Dear Mum, If you can hear me, I’ve got a few things I never got the chance to say,” she raps.
“Shot in the back of your ear, so young in 54th year, murdered with three kids left behind, a hopeless nation without you, you are in all their hearts.”
Bhutto was assassinated in Rawalpindi …

RAWALPINDI: The Media Study Forum has welcomed the appointment of Arshad Khan as a new managing director, Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV), Islamabad.
The forum chairman, Ilyas Bhatti, hoped that new management would resolve the 20 years old seniority and promotion issue of the PTV employees.
The Islamabad High Court has already sought comments from the PTV MD regarding the non-implementation of 1989 Review Board judgment in letter and spirit by January 16.
It may be recalled that 27 PTV Union leaders were arrested and jailed for one year and terminated in 1978.
Late Prime …

Other than the fashion shows doing periodic rounds, the biggest newsmaker in the industry was the breakup between two design and/or retail houses.
Perhaps the one industry that has managed to withstand and survive the sociopolitical drama that the country went through in the past year is the fashion industry. The activity within the industry may have suffered a momentary setback due to the imposition of emergency in the country and after Benazir’s assassination, but it bounced right back on track soon after. The fashion shows that were held off were …

Pop music is rapidly taking over the Pakistani music scene, despite the moral brigade and diktats of the clergy. “Pop, along with soft rock, is growing in popularity. It has developed in a very short span of time and shows more promise than even Indian pop music,” claims Saadia, 19, a student of business studies. Most of the songs are in Urdu set to western music. There is a lot of talent coming here. Music experts say there are about 15 established music bands and a dozen pop music stars …

In a historic fashion, business and diplomatic move, Faiza Samee, the Pakistani designer who once dressed former prime minister Benazir Bhutto for her wedding, has begun retailing in Delhi, the first ever for a Pakistani designer in India.
Samee, who will be selling at the Carma fashion boutique in Mehrauli, has even made saris for the first time in her more than two-decade fashion career, especially for the India launch.
“This is a dream come true,” Samee told IANS in an interview. “People have been telling for 10 years to sell in …