Kylie Jenner received a reaction from Margaret Atwood, the writer of The Handmaid’s Tale as the model had chosen the dystopian drama as a theme of her friend’s party. Kylie faced massive criticism on the internet when she threw a Handmaid’s Tale-themed birthday party for her best friend, Stassie Karanikolaou back in June. Recently, the 80-year-old author of the drama, Atwood, opened up …

Sports presenter and cricket commentator Zainab Abbas wrapped up her wedding festivities last night and the pictures are gorgeous. Abbas, who’s married Hamza Kardar last week, had an intimate dholki and nikkah ceremony earlier followed by a festive mayun and shendi. The bride opted for a pastel lilac Elan number with a mix of chunky and dainty embellishments for her …

Ace singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan is poised to promote organic qawwali — 600-year-old legacy of his family — and launch an album next year. “We are restarting [reviving] qawwali to have a full-fledged album for audience by next year,” said the iconic qawwal in a brief interview with Dawn after his first-ever live performance at a concert held here …

It is hard to define Pakistani culture. The moment you start developing arguments to describe linguistic, sartorial, artistic and culinary dissimilarities between Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, you will invariably stumble upon elements that connect the three in more ways than one. Aren’t Barray Ghulam Ali Khan and Roshan Ara Begum a shared musical heritage of the subcontinent? And it’s a …

Fire broke out at the Karachi head office of internet and television service provider StormFiber, powered by Cybernet, late Saturday night. No causalities or injuries were reported. According to a statement issued by StormFiber following the incident, the fire was contained without any loss to networking equipment or servers. “As a precautionary measure, however, our power systems including the primary …

BEIJING: China will require telecom operators to collect face scans when registering new phone users at offline outlets starting on Sunday, according to the country’s information technology authority, as Beijing continues to tighten cyberspace controls. In September, China’s industry and information technology ministry issued a notice on “safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of citizens online”, which laid out rules …

APPLE Inc is “taking a deeper look at how we handle disputed borders” after it referred to the Russian-annexed Crimean Peninsula as part of Russia in its Maps and Weather apps for Russian users, a company spokeswoman said on Friday. Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller said that Apple has not made any changes to its maps outside of Russia and made …

Moody’s Investors Services upgraded Pakistan’s outlook from ‘negative’ to ‘stable’, reaffirming the country’s rating of B3, the agency announced on Monday. Moody’s had downgraded Pakistan’s ratings outlook to negative last year in June, citing heightened external vulnerability risk due to depleting foreign exchange reserves. “The change in outlook to stable is driven by Moody’s expectations that the balance of payments dynamics will continue to …

NEW YORK: US online sales are set to hit a new record on this week’s “Cyber Monday,” Adobe Analytics said, as e-commerce outlets gear up to lure shoppers in the opening days of the holiday season. Internet purchases are expected to reach $9.4 billion, a jump of nearly 19 percent over last year’s record-setting $7.9 billion take, according to a …

BEIJING: As a Chinese all-weather strategic cooperative partner, Pakistani exporters are eager to enter the huge Chinese meat market, China Economic Net (CEN) reported on Monday. “China’s demand for meat imports is very large, and many Pakistani exporters call us every day to indicate that once China opens Pakistani meat exports, they hope to sign a one-year contract immediately,” Adnan …