Shoaib Malik and Sania Mirza

LAHORE: Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik and Indian tennis star Sania Mirza are going to tie the knot in April.

As per reports, the two sports stars have been in an affair for the last six months which had led to Sania’s earlier engagement to break.

Sources said that the mother of Shoaib Malik went to Indian city of Hyderabad Deccan where she met with the family of Sania Mirza and finalized Shoaib and Sania’s marriage.

This may be recalled that earlier engagements of both Malik and Mirza had come to an end.

Malik was engaged with Ayesha Siddiqui also from Hyderabad Deccan on June 3, 2002 while Sania on the other side was engaged with Sohrab Khan which she ended recently.

The wedding ceremony of Shoaib Malik and Sania Mirza will take place in April while the valima reception will be hosted by Malik on April 16 or 17 in Lahore.

Shoaib Malik is the 44th most searched keyword on google in last hour while Sania Mirza is 100th most searched – eXclusive

8 concerts have been lined up for the North American audience of Atif Aslam starting from 12th of March concluding on the 28th.

Below is the schedule of the tour.

12th March – San Francisco

13th March – Houston (Jones Hall)

14th March – Washington D.C

19th March – Atlanta 20th March – Dallas (Special Events Center)

21st March – Phoenix

26th March – Chicago (Odeum Expo Center)

27th March – New Jersey

28th March – Toronto

Ali Zafar @ PFDC

Ali Zafar is preferring serious music this time. Probably the tremendous response to his sufi performances in Coke Studio sessions made him choose this genre of music. A good news for all his fans is that his new album titled ‘Jhoom’ will be out real soon. Currently he is working on a new music video, may be of his unreleased title song ‘Jhoom’ which he performed for the first time at PFDC Sunsilk Fashion Week 2010.

According to Ali Zafar:

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.I’m thinking whether to release a single or a whole album. I feel that nowadays no one listens to a complete album….Guys this time it’s serious stuff…Album is to release v soon…

Entity Paradigm

Entity Paradigm [eP] will be shooting the video of the song SHOR MACHA. All EP fans are invited to take part. Shor Macha is the voice of the young of Pakistan

Please contact Mr. Sikandar (production Manager) on 03224006482 for venue location and other details

Date:
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Time:
1:00pm – 7:00pm
Location:
Bari Studios – Multan Road Lahore.

Facebook Event Page

Strings

Strings duo Faisal Kapadia and Bilal Maqsood are currently going through the major cities of Pakistan as part of a concert tour. Having played a Valentine’s Day show for the Isloo crowd, Strings made their way to LUMS in Lahore on February 17, and sent an already keyed-up audience into absolute adrenaline-rushed mode.

While it is always fabulous to hear Strings sing – this particular performance was made even better by the fact that Bilal and Faisal sang a medley of pop songs by various Pakistani artists of yore.

If you love Strings, then just imagine them singing Nazia Hasan’s ‘Disco Dewane’ – and imagine how you would dance! And dance did the audience – one girl in particular, a student at LUMS, who was chosen by the band to come out of the audience and share stage space with them! The exhilarated girl could be seen saying, “Oh my god!” throughout her time on stage and this probably made the concert even more fun for the people there, to see one of their in the spotlight.

The medley had other musical gems as well: Reshma, Alamgir, Vital Signs, Junoon and Ali Azmat songs were part of the repertoire and had the crowd swaying, singing and dancing along.

Strings humbly admitted that these artists were the ones responsible for paving the way for future musical acts such as themselves and to see such humility from people so successful is always awe-inspiring; especially sinceStrings already paid homage to Pakistani greats in the ‘Titliyan’ video.

The night ended with the Jupiters’ ‘Yaaro Yehi Dosti Hai’ – classic Pakistani friendship anthem – which was the perfect song to play for an audience full of students.

Source: INSTEP today

Farhan Saeed

Express news broke the news today that Farhan Saeed of Jal band was found with an unusual type of weapon (pen pistol) at the Lahore airport while leaving for Karachi for a concert. He mentioned that he didn’t know about it and a fan handed this over to him as a gift.

We believe that Farhan is not involved in any such activity and wish that conclusion turns out to be in his favor.

Sources mentioned that he has not been arrested and has been let go to Karachi for the concert.

Atif Aslam’s Official Statement:

ASALAM-O-ALAIKUM to all ma dear fans

Heard abt ppl talking abt mA new
song frm prince .. first ov all i would like u guys to
knw tht whenever a song is recorded for the playback
film in the studio , the singer only gets to sing on the
rough track (i.e the music is just used as a reference
which is certainly not the final track when it is being
recorded in the studio ). In addition to tht, only the
music director has the right to put in the music(i.e the
way film director and producer wants to) . so ppl if
there is any such version which is against ma religion is
offcourse and vill never be supported. Simple

lyrics ki ager baat kerein to mein ne
yeh socha k meray fans aab tak urdu ko itna samjh chukay
hon gay k farak ker sakein gay ek ganay ki shaeri mein
aur aaam urdu mein …. i mean the lyrics of tere liye
are not literal infact jis wajah say log ler rahay hain
( yani chor di KHUDAYE ) it means chor di DUNIYA mein
ne teray liye ( u want me to be more literal then it
means chor di zindage ki her asaeeesh,, aish aur aram ,,,
zindage ki lazatein mein ne teray liye ,,,, if any one
wants more explanation am here LOL.

As an owner ov this forum i feel
responsible to post this msg to all ov u and certainly
ths msg is only for ma true lovers. The ppl who are
trying to detrack ma fans deliberately on facebook plz
try something better this small thing doesnt even need
clarifications

Apart frm ma msg i hope everyone is
fine n no one is in trouble these days .. even if u are
am gonna pray for all ov u ,,,, so have faith in ALLAH
n do the best ROCK ON

Source: Aadeez

Tips Official Statement:

‘Tere Liye’ song will be Revised!

Dear Friends,

I represent Tips (Marketing ). We have been observing the comments by a few members concerning the use of certain verses of the Quran in the unplugged version of ‘TERE LIYE’ sung by the composer himself Sachin Gupta.

We would like to clarify the matter with all of you. First of all, the concerned song is only a bonus track on the album. It is not picturised in the film. Sachin was keen on singing on the album. Being a relatively new singer, he wanted to seek the blessings of ALMIGHTY. He even consulted a Sufi saint who told him it it was perfectly fine to use the verse. That does not take away the fact that we have unintentionally hurt the sentiments of a few of our fans.

We are recalling the first lot of CDs that have been dispatched to the trade. We are remastering the song in question and will remove the verse. Although we believe that we (TIPS) have done nothing wrong in putting this beautiful song out, we do not intend to hurt anyone’s sentiments.
We hope this eases all the hard feelings.

God Bless!!
Arun Nair
(Marketing)

Source: Prince Official Facebook

Hadiqa Kiani

Pakistani pop sensation Hadiqa Kiani destroyed her image last year at the Ponds Ensemble show wear Hadiqa chaotically made it to the ramp and did possibly one of the most embarrassing catwalks ever. Later in an interview Hadiqa admitted that she strongly regretted the walk and she blamed choreographer/ex super model/fashion mogul Freiha Altaf for the mishap. Well Hadiqa is back, and she wants people to forget about that catastrophe and embrace her as a celebrity fashion model. Hadiqa is scheduled to be the Show Stopper for Asifa & Nabeel at the first night of Lahore Fashion Week. Note: Hadiqa Kiani and the very pregnant fashion designer Asifa Imran are apparently really good friends and I guess they are coming together for Fashion Week. But if rumours persist, well, then Hadiqa might model for HSY as well. But as of now she will only be the Show Stopper for the cousin duo Asifa & Nabeel.
Now, Hadiqa is not changing careers (why would she? she had the highest album sales in 2009 and so far her music career is looking very positive). She will simply be walking as a celebrity endorsing the brand. So all the best Sohnya Darling I hope (for your sake) that you rock that runway!

Source: GT Magazine

Based on the news (read: rumors) from couple of sources, Atif Aslam won’t be singing any of the songs for his debut film “Bol“. Since, Atif had extremely ridiculous voice Shoaib Mansoor thought that Ali Khan should sing for him and Atif should lip-sync that?

I have no doubts about Shoman’s talent as a film maker but this sounds very ridiculous to me. First it was in Khuda Ke Liye when Fawad khan (the lead vocalist of EP) lip-synced over the song by Ahmed Jehanzeb and Shuja Haider and now we have Atif Aslam (the top pop star) lip-syncing Ali K.