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“Pakistan cricket needs overhauling”
Strings’ Bilal Maqsood speaks out on the current cricket scenario
Even if the Pakistani team is proven not guilty, which seems very unlikely at the moment, we all know that they all are a bunch of shady people who play only for themselves. Their punishment should be exemplary.
In spite of losing, God knows how many matches in a row, they get half a million each from the PCB for winning the Oval test match.
Question: Aren’t these guys paid money to play and win? Some of them get up to 800,000 rupees per test match. So why pay them extra for doing what they are supposed to do? Or….were they paid their cut for losing the first two? Hmmm? {Read More…}
Pakistani celebrities reminisce about Nazia Hassan and their favourite songs by the iconic singer, who died 10 years ago today.
Ali Saleem:
Meeting Nazia: “I met her in 1998. I have listened to her songs; I grew up with her voice. As a person she was angelic.”
Favourite song: There are too many to name, but ‘Teri Yaad’ from Hotline is one of my favorites.”
As the legend goes, Ali Saleem has Nazia Hassan to thank for his trademark impersonation of Benazir Bhutto. The actor met the late prime minister at her house. {Read More…}
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Riding the wave of success of its previous initiatives from earlier this year, the Azme Alishan movement launched the Azme Alishan National Song Competition with the support of international superstars Bilal Maqsood and Faisal Kapadia of Strings. The Azme Alishan movement’s manifesto is to revive the same spirit of nationhood and community that lies at the heart of the vision of Pakistan. Azme Alishan aims to highlight the great Pakistani youth musical talent within Pakistan and all across the world with this televised competition, which starts airing on your favorite channels with its first episode from Saturday, June 05, 2010. The TV shows will continue throughout the summer, concluding with the grand finale announcing the winner on August 14th.
The competition opened mid-March with a request for all Pakistanis from within and across borders to send in their original national song entries – no song covers were entertained. {Read More…}
The ambassadors for Pakistani pop music, Strings just announced that they have been signed as the Brand Ambassadors of Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE.
Previously, the band had been the Brand Ambassadors for Motorola Mobiles for Pakistan, Pakistani telecom Mobilink and now Warid telecom, the watch brand Tissot, the international guitar manufacturer Gibson in 2007 and for Honda City in 2009 just to name a few.
So all Strings fans out there get ready to see an exciting TVC of Etihad Airways featuring the band or may be a photo shoot for the airways, that would be cool.