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Four years ago, Vice published an essay I wrote on Pakistan’s “hook-up culture.” Initially upon submission, the piece was less of a personal essay and more of an informative one. However, if there is one ...
The moment Zainab stepped into her cotton pants, she knew it was not the seamstress but her own body that had betrayed her. It had only been a week since the seamstress had come over ...
Nearly 45 years after Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s brutal assassination, the man known as the founder of the nation, Bangladesh executed one of his killers, Abdul Majed. Abdul Majed, a former military captain, publicly declared his ...
In times of crippling uncertainty and deep human struggle, art gives people hope. Separated from loved ones and burdened with news of the pandemic, art brings much needed solace, helping us ground ourselves in a ...
On Thursday, the Sindh High Court overturned the murder conviction of Ahmed Omer Saeed Sheikh, the man who was found guilty for the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. The court ...
Karachi’s mortuaries were closed across the city on Sunday, after two bodies brought into Edhi’s morgue were suspected to be those of patients who had died due to the Coronavirus. “The morgues have been closed ...
Peter Levine, a dad from Nanuet New York, refused to let his 21 year old son Matt Levine into the house after he returned home from spring break in South Padre Island, Texas, where he ...
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex reportedly moved to California, after leaving their rental in Vancouver, Canada and taking a private flight to the US before the border closed between both countries last week. In ...
On Friday, 27th March, rumours that Prime Minister Imran Khan had tested positive for the novel coronavirus spread on social media and whatsapp groups. The news resulted in much chatter, as Boris Johnson, UK’s Prime ...
On 21st March, renowned activist, speaker and currently a professor at Forman Christian College Lahore, Dr. Ammar Ali Jan accused Generation and Limelight of firing their workers on the 1st of April. A video ProperGaanda ...
New C.D.C. (Centre for Disease Control) data shows that nearly 40 percent of patients which were hospitalised because of the virus were of the age 20 to 54. Although risk of dying still remains significantly ...
The last few weeks, there’s been nothing on the news other than coronavirus. And rightfully so. Because the virus is spreading rapidly and measures need to be taken to curb it. However, along with legit ...
On Monday, for the first time since the pandemic started, a human trial of a potential vaccine to COVID-19 was carried out in a medical centre in Seattle. The vaccine was developed by the National ...
A Hindu Nationalist group recently hosted a cow urine drinking party this Saturday believing it would ward off coronavirus. The event was hosted by a far right hindu group called the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha ...
On Tuesday, Imran Khan addressed all of Pakistan on the Coronavirus pandemic in a televised address, his first address on COVID-19. As of Tuesday night, 237 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Pakistan with ...
Pakistan is home to several religious minorities, notably the Hindus, Sikhs and Christians. It is also home to a tiny 200 member Jewish community which is scattered all over the country. This is their story. ...
Dozens of Afghan patients which were held in isolation in a quarantine facility in western Afghanistan escaped after attacking hospital staff and damaging hospital property. The escapees also include one patient who has been confirmed ...
Alvis Kernel, a Canadian resident with roots in Hong Kong, was reportedly denied a seat in the uber due to his Asian ethnicity as mass hysteria kicks in
Bikers performed the traditional Maori haka outside the Al Noor Mosque, honouring the 51 worshippers who lost their lives in Christchurch’s mass shooting Dozens of bikers performed the traditional Maori haka outside the Al Noor ...
Pakistan’s national tally of coronavirus has now risen to 31, with cases reported in Sindh and Islamabad. On Saturday evening, Prime Minister Imran Khan made his first public statement on the pandemic via twitter. In ...
In the last week, COVOID-19 has gotten new notoriety, forcing world leaders into isolation, resulting in cancellation of sport leagues, restricting world travel and causing the market to plunge. All these things are bad, terrible, ...
The 74-year-old patient died from coronavirus in India, making it the country’s first fatality. The patient had recently returned from Saudi Arabia. 70 cases have been reported in India so far. New Dehli’s has reported ...
Shares dropped in Asia on Friday, with those in Japan, Thailand and India going down as much as 10 percent after Wall Street suffered its greatest drop since the Black Monday crash of 1987. Why ...
“Having recently returned from a speaking engagement in London, U.K., the Prime Minister’s wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau began exhibiting mild flu-like symptoms including a low fever late last night……. She is self-isolating at home awaiting ...
“Forza Italia, We love you! PornHub has decided to donate its percentage revenue from the ModelHub platform from March to help Italy during the outbreak. To help you during these weeks at home, for the ...
Women have filed a petition in Lahore High court seeking to halt the authorities from conducting virginity tests. The petition was filed on Wednesday, which states that virginity tests such as ‘‘two-finger test’ and examination ...
As Pakistan moves towards its first-ever electric three wheeled rickshaws to reduce air pollution and curb climate change, the country is struggling to shift its momentum to electric vehicles. What is the National Electric Vehicle ...
United Kingdom Health minister Nadine Dorries says she has tested positive for coronavirus. Currently, she’s self-isolating. The United Kingdom has reported 373 cases in total as yet.
As of Monday morning, 16 March, 94 cases of the novel coronavirus have been detected in Pakistan, with 41 more cases emerging in Karachi. 166,980 cases have been reported worldwide with 6,492 deaths. On March ...
I wrote a review on Teeli’s first web series ‘Summer Love’, when it was airing, you can read it here. That was last summer, the digital media platform has now released its second web-series, ‘Superheroes’ ...
The Aurat March, has faced much backlash from the masses, with massive trolling on social media and incidents where their murals have been covered or torn down. The movement faces another blow as the Lahore ...
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After a man desecrated the Holy Quran in the Norwegian city of Kristiansand, Pakistan conveyed its ‘deep concern’ to the ambassador of Norway on Saturday. “Pakistan’s condemnation of this action was reiterated. It was underscored ...
A first in history Charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust have been unveiled against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in three separate corruption cases, the Attorney General announced on Thursday evening, marking the first time in ...
Charged with spying on opposition An Indian couple accused of spying on Sikh and Kashmiri communities in Germany went on trial this Thursday on charges that carry a sentence of up to 10 years in ...
From our special Gender Correspondent A group of religious scholars have issued a fatwa against women wearing leather jackets, after video emerged of a young female student activist chanting slogans while wearing a leather ...
In 2018, Juul skyrocketed to fame and today has a monopoly over the e-cigarette market. Due to it’s explosive popularity among the youth, it’s worth analysing the rise of the ‘juuling’ trend. The concept of ...
The Karoonjhar mountains are the only mountainous range of the Thar desert. Full of rich land and historical monuments, the region holds symbolic significance to the locals. Recently, it was revealed that increased mining is ...
This week Pakistan saw a lot of ridiculous and hilarious videos go viral. We do a deep dive of the top three ones from the week. During a debate on private news channel, Jamiat-e-Islam Fazl ...
Today marks the historic opening of the Kartarpur Corridor, but reports have emerged from a section of Indian media raising doubts about the true intentions of this event Prime Minister Imran Khan is set to ...
Airlift is a new transport service that allows users to pre-book rides on premium quality, air-conditioned buses and vans that have fixed routes and stops across the city. Airlift was created with benevolent goals; to ...
The International Cricket Council shared a heartwarming photo of a Pakistani cricket fan from the United States on his wedding day, ‘even on my wedding night, I wasn’t going to miss this game.’ Cricket fans ...
Former Prime Minister and PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif, along with daughter Maryam Nawaz, leave Lahore’s Services Hospital for Jati Umra Although Nawaz Sharif was discharged from hospital yesterday, he refused to leave for Jati Umra ...
India’s supreme court has banned stubble burning citing it as one of the major contributors to the deteriorating air quality in the metropolis. This week, a public health emergency was declared in India following air ...
An image making rounds on twitter shows the prestigious King Edward Medical College stating one criteria for their sanitation worker job as ‘non-muslims only’. The image shows an application form with multiple job vacancies at ...
On Monday, the Lahore High Court approved the bail plea of PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills Case following her arrest on August 8th. A two-member division bench headed by Justice Ali ...
This Sunday saw the 550th birth anniversary of the founder of Sikhism, Baba Guru Nanak Dev. Over 1,100 Indian Sikhs crossed the wagha border and arrived in Gurdwara Punja Sahib in Hassanabdal to partake in ...
Protesters this week were spotted holding the Taliban flag at Maulana Fazlur Rehmans Azadi March this week. Government officials were quick to criticise this move. The special assistant to the Prime Minister on youth affairs, ...
An inquiry conducted by the Pakistan Railways’ team concluded that the primary cause of the Tezgam Express tragedy on Thursday was a gas leak and subsequent explosion of two cylinders The Federal Government Inspector of Railways (FGIR) will ...
After Shahbaz Sharif’s no show from almost everywhere that PML-N might have needed support, reports suggest that Shahbaz Sharif spine may still not be fixed (physically and morally). ProperGaanda has come to learn that it ...
Express Tribune after taking cue from other traditional media outlets and firing most of its journalists, are now making further in roads for expansion. One of them is hiring a fresh business school graduate, who ...
Ex-President Mamnoon Hussain, who was famously irrelevant in his time as the President of Pakistan, is reported to still be pretty much irrelevant. According to sources, he reminisces the time when at least he was ...
A Local Liberal Arts Student and part time Social Media Wokest Person Alive sent out an array of tweets describing her shock at the Azaadi March, when she saw there were only men with sticks ...
Ali Zar Chusu, a recent LUMS graduate and a part-time shoda has been reported to mention “LUMS” 20 times when talking to a girl at a birthday of his friend’s friend at Bedian.”I really don’t ...
After the Government, the armed forces and basically most of Maulana’s friend gave him a shutup a call on his planned halloween party, Maulana got another bad news today. His Doctor diagnosed him with Tinkafitus, ...
30 year old social media page admin of “Pakistan is the best!” after 7 years, still thinks it’s a viable business! He’s gone to extreme lengths for people to take him seriously. He reportedly has growing ...
Another survey done on yet another random Internet page reports; Pakistani Men enjoy porn much more than Item numbers and surprisingly it doesn’t piss them off. The result comes in at a time when nation is ...
As the economic crises grows, Pakistani Prime Minister has appealed to Pakistani expats and anyone with money to basically think of Pakistan as charity box where you can put all your charity in. In an ...
Pakistanis, in large numbers, rushed to their lawyers offices’ with their Canadian Immigration Applications as they heard about Trudeau’s win. “My lawyer kept on telling me that Trudeau might not win so apply quickly but ...
The current chief selector and coach of Pakistan cricket team, for the sake of doing something even more radical for the upcoming Australian cricket series announced himself as the 12th man of the team. Misbah ...
Liberal leader Justin Trudeau has won a minority government, as most major Canadian media outlets are projecting. The result means that the Liberals will need the support of another party, likely the NDP, to pass ...
In a tragic turn of events, the dead body of a female student of the Chandka Medical College in Larkana, was discovered in the hostel earlier on Monday. The deceased has been identified as Namrata, ...
The play is written by Anwar Maqsood, Directed by Dawar Mehmood and is the prequel of the beloved Aangan Terha. Nach Na Jane is on till 31st August Naach Na Jaane was presented by Kopykats ...
Hi. I’m the average girl who you’ve probably bumped shoulders with in college corridors. Or who’s car you’ve honked at during rush hour. I’m the girl who sat next to you in biochemistry class and ...
On World Press Freedom Day, ProperGaanda reached out to local and international journalists and asked them what the scope of journalism is in our neck of the woods. Mehreen Zahra-Malik is Senior Editor for Arab ...
Whether it’s the first toothless laughter of a newborn child, a colossal crane falling down from a skyscraper, a huge tsunami wave crashing down on helpless bystanders or a viral video of a cat banging ...
Pakistani Comedian Shehzad Ghias has recently irked the hospitable Pakistani Twitterati by unveiling that the Twitter account of US-Vlogger Samantha Gerry is faux. Tweets by Samantha A Gerry have been making waves over the social ...
Born in 1990’s? Confused about the social media hype over Ted Bundy? This is what you need to know. Netflix on Thursday, 24th January, fed the world’s obsession with real crime stories by dropping a ...
Endless gym selfies, snarky memes, trend-setting celebrities, rousing teasers and tinted filters on Instagram have brought celebrities, fans, journalists and businessmen together. This social media engine, has bridged the gap between celebrities and their fans ...
On Wednesday, 23rd January, Finance Minister Asad Umar rolled over government’s third finance bill in their efforts to stabalise the plummeting economy. Government believes that the new mini-budget plan will help to generate more revenue ...
Pakistan cricket team’s captain and wicket-keeper Sarfaraz Ahmed was caught sledging during 37th over in 2nd ODI match with South Africa. Pakistan had celebrated its win against South Africa in their first match. Preceding this, ...
The 10 year challenge on Facebook has been making rounds over other social media applications as well where people post an old profile picture alongside the current one to see how much they have aged. ...
In the heart of the city of fresco art and Naqshi, an event from the parallel artistic spectrum took place as 2019 kicked off. D’art festival organised by DISCOVER-a lifestyle and culture platform by MINT ...
The mainstay of acclaimed hits including “House of Cards,” ‘’Orange Is The New Black,” and, latest film “Bird Box.”, Netflix dropped a bombshell of its fourth price hike . This is what the company had ...
Recently, Uk based firm, Bedford firm Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) has been given Production Organisation Approval from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). It is hoped the new airship model will take to the skies by ...
Pakistan remembers its brightest mind in the field of science and technology. Arfa Karim held the accolade of Youngest Microsoft Professional at a tender age of 10. Reflecting upon her achievements in 2006 Arfa had ...
Following Zainab Abbas who became Pakistan’s First Female sports Journalist, Marina Iqbal debuted as Pakistan’s First Female Cricket commentator. Pioneer Marina has opened a new gateway for women in Pakistan.She has possessed the vigour and ...
How do you imagine the proceedings of science summits to take place? You would probably visualize getting caught into realms of a progressive science world and familiarizing yourself with the new technological advancements and scientific ...
Dear Pakistani men, we understand that your typical (and fucked up) mentality revolves around you thinking how your wife or girlfriend decides your status in society and how her boisterous personality may taint your image, ...
World Press Photo award winning journalist, Lu Guang, is known for documenting the dark side of China’s booming economy. He candidly captures problems such as HIV, drug addiction and environmental issues of China; all which ...
Team PG met with Bayaan for a cup of cha and gupshup! Watch till the end for a surprise performance
Dr Umar Saif, Chairman Punjab Information Technology Board has said, “For me, entrepreneurship is a way to empower the youth of Pakistan, which is why I fight for it every single day! Remember you are ...
What do you know about the ‘I Am Tomorrow’ festival? On the 3rd of March 2018, a group of like-minded people came together to celebrate a one of a kind event. It was held at ...
ProperGaanda’s venture of ‘Young Creatives’ sheds light on individuals that are shaping their own unique path through a society that has long faired on traditional values passed down through generations. In a sea of people akin ...
ProperGaanda’s venture ‘Young Creatives’ sheds light on the individuals that are shaping their own unique path through a society that has long faired on traditional values passed down through generations. In a sea of people ...
Some things are famous, some are popular, and then there are some that are viral, and that really surpasses anything else. There are definitely some things that really topped (and continue to do so) the ...
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