Dananeer Mobeen’s 2026 has been defined by two roles that look strikingly alike on paper. In May, she made her film debut in Mera Lyari as Afsana Baloch, a girl from Karachi’s Lyari who dreams of playing professional football while her father stands in her way. In October, she returned to prime-time television in HUM...
Mahira Khan has publicly praised her young co-stars Aena Khan and Fazal Hussain after watching their performance as the younger versions of her own character in Mitti De Baway, a gesture that has added to the growing buzz around the two newcomers just two episodes into Green Entertainment’s big-budget period drama. Taking to her Instagram,...
Every few years, a Pakistani drama produces a character that viewers recognise so immediately that the conversation stops being about the show. Zamil, played by Nameer Khan in ARY Digital’s Dar-e-Nijaat, has become one of those characters. His scenes with Zaryab, played by Dur-e-Fishan Saleem, have been discussed less as plot and more as testimony,...
Pakistani television has never been short of famous pairings. It has, however, been fairly consistent about what those pairings are supposed to do: make audiences want them to end up together. Mitti De Baway, which premiered on Green Entertainment on September 23, opens by doing something different. Its two leads, Mahira Khan and Wahaj Ali,...
For most of its run, Dar-e-Nijaat has let Abu Bakar exist as a kind of narrative safe harbour. While Zamil spirals through hypocrisy and Zaryab absorbs one betrayal after another, Abu Bakar has simply stood still, calm, unbothered, endlessly patient. He doesn’t raise his voice. He doesn’t judge her past. He shows up. For an...
Tamasha host Adnan Siddiqui has said he would love to have Indian reality TV personality Rakhi Sawant join the Pakistani show, responding to comments Sawant made recently expressing her own interest in appearing on the programme if it were filmed somewhere like Dubai. Sawant had said in a video shared on social media that she...
Pakistan Idol 2026 wrapped up on Sunday night with what should have been an uncomplicated feel-good ending, a middle-class singer from Faisalabad walking away with the title after a season of steadily building performances. Instead, the announcement of Hira Qaiser as the winner set off a wave of pushback online almost immediately, with supporters of...
After making its mark in Pakistan's food industry, Kababjees Group is now stepping into hospitality with its new hotel, Sukoon, at Turtle Beach, expanding its brand beyond restaurants into a new beachfront destination in Karachi.
Misbah Arshad, a psychology student with prior Miss International and Miss Supranational experience, has been crowned Miss Universe Pakistan 2026 and will compete at the 75th Miss Universe pageant in Puerto Rico.
Harry Brook's 91 and half centuries from Jordan Cox and Dan Lawrence put England in a strong position on day two at Headingley, though Pakistan spinner Ali Usman claimed a maiden Test five wicket haul.