Dubai, Nov 15: Pakistani author Fatima Bhutto has shot down rumours that she had turned down a role in a big-budget Bollywood film.
The 31-year-old writer laughed and said that it was one of the funniest stories that she heard but it is patently and spectacularly untrue, the Gulf News reported.
Bhutto has made her debut as a novelist with 'The Shadow of the Crescent Moon', after having been a non-fiction writer.
Published by Penguin, the novel is set in Mir Ali, a small town in the troubled tribal region of Waziristan, close to the Afghan border.
She wanted the town, the epicenter of the story, to be.
The 31-year-old writer laughed and said that it was one of the funniest stories that she heard but it is patently and spectacularly untrue, the Gulf News reported.
Bhutto has made her debut as a novelist with 'The Shadow of the Crescent Moon', after having been a non-fiction writer.
Published by Penguin, the novel is set in Mir Ali, a small town in the troubled tribal region of Waziristan, close to the Afghan border.
She wanted the town, the epicenter of the story, to be.
- 11/15/2013
- by Ketali Mehta
- RealBollywood.com
Drone strikes have been on hold for almost a month-likely due to the tension between Pakistan and the U.S. over the arrest of an American official for murder. Newsweek investigates.
At first, Taliban militants and local civilians in the Waziristan tribal badlands along Pakistan's Afghan border thought that bad weather was responsible for the long lull in the attacks by armed Predator drones. "For the first time in months we haven't heard any ‘buzz-buzz' overhead for weeks," says a physician in the town of Mir Ali, referring to the distinctive noise that turbo-prop UAVs make when circling overhead. "We thought the reason was the low, cloudy skies."
Related story on The Daily Beast: After the Leaks, the Shakeup
But drone-fired missile strikes against militant targets have now been on hiatus for almost a month-and militants and locals alike are increasingly convinced that the halt is tied to a tense...
At first, Taliban militants and local civilians in the Waziristan tribal badlands along Pakistan's Afghan border thought that bad weather was responsible for the long lull in the attacks by armed Predator drones. "For the first time in months we haven't heard any ‘buzz-buzz' overhead for weeks," says a physician in the town of Mir Ali, referring to the distinctive noise that turbo-prop UAVs make when circling overhead. "We thought the reason was the low, cloudy skies."
Related story on The Daily Beast: After the Leaks, the Shakeup
But drone-fired missile strikes against militant targets have now been on hiatus for almost a month-and militants and locals alike are increasingly convinced that the halt is tied to a tense...
- 2/18/2011
- by Ron Moreau & Sami Yousafzai
- The Daily Beast
Film: Aashayein Music Directors: Pritam Chakroborty, Salim Merchant, Sulaiman Merchant and Shiraz UppalLyricists: Sameer, Kumaar, Shakeel Sohail and Mir Ali HusainSingers: Neeraj Shridhar, Shaan, Tulsi Kumar, Shiraz Uppal, Zubeen Garg, Shafqat Amanat Ali, Shreya Ghoshal, Mohit Chauhan and Shankar Mahadevan Rating: ***Director Nagesh Kukunoor's Aashayein generates quite a lot of interest and many of the songs are hummable. The film, which stars John Abraham in the lead, consists mostly of love songs.The album offers 13 tracks composed by three composers.The album kickstarts with Mera jeena hai kya composed by Pritam Chakroborty and crooned by Neeraj Sridhar. This track is currently ...
- 8/2/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
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