British Pakistani boxer Amir Khan looked very happy at his engagement party yesterday — as he gives his knockout fiancée Faryal Makhdoom a ring. The event was held at Amir’s beloved Bolton Wanderers’ Reebok Stadium. Celebrities like Imran Khan and H-Dhami performed at the event.

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Fox STAR Studios today announced its association with Rose Movies at the set of their latest project LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK, produced by well known film makers Goldie Behl and Shrishti Arya which also marks the directorial debut of Anu Menon.

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Forget about Bao Ji Bao Ji!! After a long hiatus, Komal Rizvi returns to the limelight, showcasing her talent with “Daanah Pah Daanah” along with Akhtar Chanal Zahri at Coke Studio this year. Commenting on her relationship with music the performer states, “My relationship with music has always been a personally rewarding one.” Rizvi recently released a single titled Chahiye and is currently working on her new album set to launch by the end of this year.So far Rizvi managed to get 93,845 views on YouTube in just 6 days of Coke Studio Season 4 launch.

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Last season we all witnessed a fusion blend of Meesha Shaafi and Arif Lohar “Alif Allah” with over  4,739,141 views on Youtube.

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Let us know who would you vote for Komal Rizvi or Meesha Shaafi??

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Written and composed by young musician Faiza Mujahid herself, “Meri Zindagi” is perhaps a coming-of-age song for the musician and somewhat introspectively, talks to the youth, more specifically young girls, to be more independent and in decision making control of their lives; a vision driven from the musician’s own personal experiences and journey of young rebellion, having constantly clashed with tradition and expectations, carving out a path for herself.

The video for ‘‘Meri Zindagi” sees the musician in a new avatar and has been shot in high definition, conceptualized and directed by Armughan Hassan, featuring artist and drummer Mehreen Murtaza and Asma Lakhwaira on guitars.

LISTEN | Faiza Mujahid– “Meri Zindagi”

On the release of her single Faiza said, “Taking a musical hiatus after Bandeya Ho and Kahan Houn Mein ended up being important for me as it gave me time and hopefully a pinch of maturity to explore my musical direction – with the release of Meri Zindagi, I feel I have had a chance to express my hopes, desires and frustrations as I experienced them. My music has always been inspired by my own understandings of the world as it is and Meri Zindagi is no different – if anything, I hope that in its own way the song it is able to reach out to the current generation of young girls to encourage them to stand up for themselves positively.”

In addition to “Meri Zindagi”, Faiza will also soon be heard on the soundtrack of Shoaib Mansoor’s next feature film, the much anticipated Bol, alongside Atif Aslam and Hadiqa Kiyani for their collaborative song “Hona Tha Pyar”.

For now, catch “Meri Zindagi” across on all your favourite music channels across Pakistan and exclusively on Radio1FM91. For more information and updates on Faiza Mujahid’s musical journey, keep yourself logged on to:

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Mangoes – The Series is an invigorating tale of South Asian youth that epitomizes true potential of the young generation by depicting them as intrepid individuals who are eager and ready to take on the title of ‘a global citizen’. It’s the commonality of the people around the world that brings them together to inspire something unique, be it an amalgam of ambitions or camaraderie within the defined boundaries of a peaceful coexistence. Set in Toronto, Mangoes encapsulates the pursuit to put across part of the story that needs to be told.

Mangoes (TV Series) is a slice of life story of Indians and Pakistanis in a love hate relationship. Bring in a job seeker, a feminist, a burger boy, a hindu, a muslim and a jew and things can get really complicated. Can these complications be uncomplicated by ‘Mangoes’ the common people?

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The United States is funding a Pakistani remake of the popular TV children’s show Sesame Street.

In an effort to boost education in Pakistan, the U.S. is donating $20 million to fund a local version of “Sesame Street,” set to air later this year.

As the Guardian is reporting, the remake of the popular children’s program will swap the traditional New York setting for a Pakistani village. Though the new version is not expected to feature Cookie Monster or Big Bird, it will instead focus on Rani, a six-year-old female Muppet with pigtails and a blue-and-white school uniform, who will speak in Urdu.

“She will represent what little girls have to go through in this gender-biased society‚” Imraan Peerzada‚ writer for the local series‚ tells Newsweek Pakistan. He went on to note that the show will inevitably include “a gentle treatment” on the nation’s battle with militancy, though direct references to religion are currently out of the question. “We are not avoiding religion‚ but we don’t want to label children…the basic learning tools of literacy‚ numeracy‚ hygiene‚ and healthy eating have to be in place first.”

The Pakistani “Sesame Street” will reportedly join co-productions in 30 other countries around the world, including Indonesia, Nigeria and South Africa. Elmo — arguably the American version’s most popular character in recent years — is expected to get a Pakistani counterpart, with local personality touches, according to the Guardian.

USAid, the development arm of the U.S. government which is funding the project, says the program is just “part of a series of ventures that is aimed at developing the educational infrastructure,” in Pakistan, where many children have limited access to schooling, according to the BBC.

From Slumdog Millionaire acclaim, Freida Pinto‚s next major big-screen appearance comes as the lead female role in the ground breaking film ‘Miral’‚ directed by Academy Award Nominated director Julian Schnabel and distributed by Hollywood mogul and cochairman of the Wesinstein Company, Harvey Weinstein. Pinto will be seen working alongside some of Hollywood’s most respected actors including Academy Award Winning actress Vanessa Redgrave (Mission Impossible, Blow Up) and two-time Academy Award Nominee Willem Defoe (Spiderman). The film‚s story puts Pinto into the challenging role of Miral, based on the autobiographical novel of the same title by Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal. ‘Miral’ emotionally illustrates the plight of a young orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in East Jerusalem who is confronted by the effects of the occupation and the Arab-Israeli war in every corner of her life.

The film is absolutely timely in that it comes at a moment when the entire Arab world, and especially its youth, is erupting in popular non-violent protests. If there is a film that could provide historical context to the fight for freedom, equality, and dignity that has overtaken the Arab street, it is ‘Miral’. South Asians across the world will identify with the non-violent call to action of the film as homage to the same course Mahatma Gandhi took during the Indian Independence movement in the 1940s.

Freida Pinto plays the character Miral brilliantly as the story details this young Palestinian woman as she becomes politically conscious and joins a non-violent uprising to achieve freedom for herself and her people. The struggle of the Palestinian youth of Miral’s generation has echoed across the region and is now returning home to Jerusalem where it all began, during the events of the film. Women are on the front lines of the struggle for freedom and human rights in the Middle East and ‘Miral’ tells the personal story of three generations of Palestinian women who were predecessors to the women revolutionaries who have captured the world’s imagination on the streets of Iran, Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, and Libya.

With the hotbed of controversy arising from the political stances on both sides regarding Israel & Palestine, Harvey Weinstein told The Hollywood Reporter that the controversial movie is not anti-Israeli, but “a pathway to peace and a beautiful coming-of-age story.” He came out strongly against critics who claim the movie ‘Miral’ is anti-Jewish or anti-Israeli. “The people who don’t want you to see the movie for political reasons are crazy or wrong,” Weinstein continued with The Hollywood Reporter at a disputed United Nations screening of the film. “I think the idea is, let there be peace.” The film, which screened on Monday March 14, 2011 at the United Nations General Assembly Hall, faced significant protests from Jewish activist groups, as well as Israel directly, who attempted to block the screening. Since then several prominent Jewish organizations, including J-Street and Jewish Voices for Peace, have risen up in support of ‘Miral’ and its filmmakers. Many other organizations are following; support has been growing since Monday.

Miral goes beyond the complex politics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and provides an in-depth and emotional portrait of the women who must not only survive it – but who will end up defining it. ‘Miral’, while a deeply personal story, is an eloquent call for equality between Palestinians and Israelis. The artistic collaboration between a Palestinian writer (Rula Jebreal) and a Jewish-American Filmmaker/Artist (Julian Schnabel) embodies the film’s message of peace. “I’m hoping that this film could in its own small way, begin a much needed national (US) conversation about this highly controversial issue,” declared Schnabel at the UN General Assembly screening. It seems that America’s most famous living painter and filmmaker is well on the way to do just that. As with Julian Schnabel’s previous films, ‘Miral’ is a touching and provocative film sure to leave audiences talking.