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Ayesha Omar lives it up at NYFW

The actress, who is Pakistan's spokesperson for beauty brand Maybelline, met with global Maybelline spokespersons on her trip to the New York Fashion Week. She posted backstage pictures while hanging out with supermodels Gigi Hadid and Jourdan Dunn, and they sure look like they were having a fun girls’ night. Making everyone one back home jealous, Ayesha also posted a short video from supermodel Emily DiDonato in which the latter sent out love to Pakistani girls in Urdu!

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Uncle Sargam gets a heartfelt tribute

Uncle Sargam, the famous puppet character, that first appeared in the children’s show Kaliyan on Pakistan Television in 1976, and was created and voiced by award-winning puppeteer, artist and columnist Farooq Qaiser. Lok Virsa recently unveiled a diorama where a team performed some of the shows famous musical numbers to pay homage to Mr Qaiser who was present at the inaugration. A number of students from federal colleges attended the event and enjoyed the live show.

Among the songs performed were Totay ko chori dalo, Kamzor hai tarazu and Yeh zindagi haseen hai, which highlighted social issues such as corruption, health, the justice system, education and the environment with humour and a tinge of sarcasm.