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[31 Jan 2012 | No Comment | 124 views]
Boxer Amir Khan’s Engagement

Famous Pakistani British Boxer Amir Khan has certainly scored a knockout. The boxer had an enormous smile on his face last night, and one look at his stunning fiancee shows why.
Khan, 25, and 20-year-old Faryal Makhdoom revealed their plans to marry earlier this month, and made it official this weekend by exchanging rings in front of 1,000 of their nearest and dearest at a lavish engagement party.
The couple celebrated with a £150,000 bash at the Bolton Wanderers’ Reebok Stadium. Last night the happy couple posed for pictures as they were …

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[14 Oct 2011 | No Comment | 360 views]
Wedding Ceremonies in Pakistan

Marriage in Pakistan is a family event of happiness and festivity. The occasion of marriage brings together all the family members and neighborhood under one roof. A Pakistani marriage generally consists of four main ceremonies of nikah, mehndi, rukhsati and valima however; such smaller events like mangani (engagement), mayoun (applying hina on bride’s hand), dholki (drum beating) are also celebrated by some people along with main functions.
Mangani (engagement) is the formal engagement or commitment of the couple destined to become married. Rings are exchanged …

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[17 Jul 2011 | No Comment | 2,284 views]
Tennis Star Aisam ul Haq engaged to Faha

Pakistan’s ace tennis player Aisamul-Haq Qureshi has gotten engaged to a Britain-based Pakistani girl, Faha Makhdum, Geo News reported. Faha Makhdum said she was very happy about getting engagaed to Aisam and was waiting for the wedding in December.
Makhdum lives in Ipswich. She has done her BSc Hons in Psychology from the University of Essex and her MSc in Therapeutic Counselling (BACP accredited). She has worked for the Pakistani High Commission in England and also practiced as a trainee counselor for Stepping Stones East …

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[8 May 2004 | No Comment | 4,079 views]

A few months back I had an opportunity to visit an engagement ceremony of one of my male class-fellows who is now engaged to a junior student who was in the same institute where we all were studying. The engagement took place when we, as the senior batch graduated successfully and the parents of both sides decided to tie the knot at an engagement ceremony, which is a good trend that people are nowadays marrying or at least engaging their sons earlier. Since men are usually getting married in late …