Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy becomes the first Pakistani filmmaker to win an Oscar Award

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, a Pakistani documentary film maker won the Oscar Award for her co-directed film ‘Saving Face’. The documentary film illustrates a commitment of a British Pakistani plastic surgeon to help the victims of acid attack in Pakistan. This is for the first time in 84 years of Oscar history that a Pakistani has ever won the Oscar Award. In her short message Chinoy dedicated her award to all those women back in Pakistan who did not give up despite passing through the crucible of acid attack. She thanked Dr. Javad for his dedication to heal the disfigured faces of women in Pakistan. She also thanked all her co-workers in the making of the film. The film, which has been co-directed by Daniel Junge, is due to release in March. Sharmeen Obaid’s story of success to reach the summit of excellence in her field is a beacon of hope to every woman in Pakistan

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Top 10 Fashion trends in Pakistan

1.Sarees: There was a time when India was the only market for Sarees but now Paki-ladies are attractive towards this form of dressing. Sarees primarily used to denote synthetic sarees with zardosi or sequins, this is the most ill used term in the history of apparel and fashion. Designer sarees are custom made and can be shaped, pre stitched, glitzy or very demure. A far cry from hand embroidered or brocade sarees, these have become a must have in most Pakistani’s woman’s wardrobe.

2.Kurta/Kurti: The creation of kurtas and kurtis to be worn with jeans, churidars or leggings got rid of the dupatta and brought in this concept of Fusion in Pakistani fashion. Salwar kameez still has Pakistani women’s Preference.

3.Revolution in Men’s fashion: Ten years ago Pakistani men didn’t have a whole lot of variety in clothes. Availability of new age lycra blends like PNS (poly-nylon-spandex) and CPNS (Cotton-poly-nylon-spandex) have taken Men’s shirting to quite to another level in this decade. Male grooming is on the rise and the Men’s fashion scene in Pakistan is expanding with a lot of multi-national companies are investing their money in Men’s fashion accessories.

4.Hair colouring: Yes we did dye our hair black before and we did apply Henna to make it brown and luscious but this millennium saw emergence of artificial hair coloring in wondrous shades of red, brown and blonde promising shiny hair and grey coverage.

 5.Age reversing creams: Wanting to look young forever is a something natural to wish for Pakistani men and women . Age reversal creams have finally arrived proposing flawless skin and minimal signs of aging for up to 10 years if used continuously from the age of 30.

6.Platinum jewelry: Initially deterred by its high cost, Pakistani’s have now encompassed the highly potent, radiant and flexible metal in this decade to create jewelry that will last for generations.

7.Social Networking(Facebook and Twitter): Facebook and twitter has now been called as a status symbol for Pakistani Peoples.If u don’t have an account specially on facebook, you are called to be “Dehati” or “Pind say aaya hai”. According to Facebook, Pakistani users exceed the mark of 5.5 million which indicates how much time they are spending on Socail networking Arena.

8.Low waist jeans: Yes there were jeans before but this decade saw the rise of hipster,skinny, body hugging and yes the low waist – low rise jeans. The undy band showing out of the jeans became a statement symbolic of the ‘no cares- no worry’ sentiment of this generation.

9.Craft from home: Pakistani women entrepreneurs now run home based craft businesses learning, making and selling their handmade craft online big time. Etsy, eBay and craft communities and business forums stand testimony to this. From selling shalwar kameez, handicrafts and kundan jewelry they have now moved on to crafts that were very foreign in the last decade.

10.Technology as style statement: undeniably technology is the biggest trend of this decade. But I am not talking of super functionality of snazzy gadgets alone; I am talking about the style quotient they lend to any ensemble. From slim gadgets to laptops and cell phones with interchangeable (printed) cover panels, from bluetooth to wireless walkmans technology is the most favored accessory of the decade

“Arrival Of T20’s” Fresh start for Pakistan

Pakistan can be the No.1 team, the most dangerous team,hard to beat in subcontinent,whitewash is certain. These all are the statements which we were listening after the conclusion of test matches between Pakistan and England but all blew up like balloon in the Air as Pakistan humiliated in shorter format of the game and England have “Green-washed Pakistan” in four ODI encounters.

Obviously such results wasn't expected but there is no need to press a panic button because as we all know that this is the first series defeat in two years and first defeat for misbah under his belt since he has overtaken after Afridi was sacked as a captain.

In most cases Pakistani media and crowd often react so abusive whenever Pakistan looses, X-players come-out of quick and fast changes, media started questions on captaincy and bla bla bla!!!!!!!
Well in this current ODI series,We have to accept one thing that Pakistan looked completely out of Color,Out of touch,inclusion of out of form players(rather called undeserving players),Inconsistent final XI.We can easily determine that how unsure Pakistan has been throughout the series that they had three different XI’s in three ODI’s completely perpendicular to England who Insisted and consistent on Same XI’s in Trio ODI’s.

Now, Question of the week, What These “Gooras” did after their horrible test series, One thing we all know that they didn’t do anything unorthodox then what magic they got? The answer of this question is very simple! They just recruit new young blood,shuffling of Batting order with Kevin pieterson appeared as an opener blasted Pakistan in third and fourth ODI with two consecutive match-winning centuries as he jumped in the air by showing his bat with a remarkable century in third ODI after three and a half years, give Pakistan a clear message that batting is possible in every Conditions(Lame-Excuses on batting under artificial Lights).

The star of this series Alaister Cook looked flawless in his batting techniques with two centuries and one half century under his belt, Just missed the milestone of becoming the first ever English batsman to score three consecutive centuries in ODI’s and fourth overall after Pakistan greats Zaheer Abbas,Saeed anwar and South African Hershall Gibbs.

Now ODI’s are over for Pakistan and T20 is starting from today so what should Pakistan do in T20’s? Should go for regular wicket keeper Adnan Akmal but will have to pay in a form of one short batsman.They can play Umar Akmal as a wicket-keeper in this shorter format so we can include one extra Batsman/Allrounder. Hammad Azzam would be a very good option because now we should look for ICC WT20 in Srilanka which is not very far away and it would be an ideal time for Pakistan to utilize these youngsters and provide them this platform to showcase their talent against the No.1 T20 team in the World. Same can be said for Shahid Afridi,to come at 3 or 4 because the three score quick runs, something the team needs but I still believe that Shahid afridi must stick to No.6.

Big "?" on Imran farhat and shoaib malik, Now both should be dropped, both already had millions of chances and it’s time for selectors to go for a deserving young talent rather than go for out-of-form players or white elephants.

The last thing that I’d like to mention here that we must and should start thinking of future by considering the fact that misbah is now 37 and he will have only 1 to 2 years cricket left himself so now PCB must start thinking of 2015 world cup as all other nations have finalized their strategies. Vice-captain should be appointed so he will be groomed under the captaincy of Misbah and by far Mohammad Hafeez is looking a strongest contender to be the next captain of Pakistan. Mohammad hafeez had an outstanding 2011 and sources are confirming that he has a “ powerful say” in Pakistani team strategies and management.Some changes, good captaincy and strong decision can lead this team to highest ebb.

Pakistani team now should play with their full commitment otherwise the heart of its fans will forget their recent success and start criticizing them like they used-to in past.