Shahran Asim
I miss PTV Awards of yesteryears. See the video clip below and following it I’ll build my case on why do I miss PTV awards.

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Few days ago I was switching through channels as nothing interesting was on. News channels were full of NRO discussion , same guests were giving same talks and same [...]

Shahran Asim
I just received an email that Shehzad Roy will be coming to Chicago this week to receive the Patricia Blunt Fellowship from the Chicago Council of Global Affairs. With every day news of doom and gloom, I think news like this are a breath of fresh air for the Pakistanis.
The Chicago Council of Global [...]

Shahran Asim and Owais Mughal
When we think of Urdu columnists, the image that comes to mind is of old men, always in shalwar Kameez / Pajama and resembling like poets. Sometimes (and not always) such columnists talk of their glorious past and also resort to sensationalism. We know this is a bit [...]

Shahran Asim
Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi is one of the most famous humorist and a humanist from Pakistan. The subtlety of his satire laced with an unlaboured and chaste Urdu idiom is his speciality that distinguishes him from others in the field.
A couple of months ago, he was in New York. He was invited as the keynote [...]

Shahran Asim and Owais Mughal
It was summer of 1986 in Karachi, when satellite dishes were unheard of and people used to put Aluminum dishes to get better reception of the ‘neighboring’ Television channels. I was also one of those who would always try put some wide aluminum plates to get the signal of Doordarshan. [...]

Shahran Asim
Asian Broadcasting Network (ABN) is a non-profit organization serving the south Asian community in Chicago area since 1997. ABN also hosts an Urdu language talk radio show which goes on air every sunday from noon to 3 p.m.
Recently ABN featured a very enlightening interview with Pakistani journalist, Rauf Klasra. The interviewing panel consists of [...]