Reading Time: 5 minutes The video gaming industry is one of the fastest-growing industries in the world. In the US alone, the video gaming sector is an approximately $200 billion industry and is expected to reach around $270 billion by 2025. In a recent study, it was found that out…
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Balochistan boasts a long coast-line with serene waters much different from the completely polluted coast of Sindh bordering Karachi and the stink that comes from it. Beaches like Somniani, Ormara, Pasni etc are currently big tourist destinations for the people in Karachi and rest of Pakistan.…
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Depp v Heard trial might be the biggest televised trial since the OJ Simpson trial. In both cases, the verdict has been reached and has caused massive waves across the mainstream media sphere. Since the beginnings of the trial itself, social media sites have been…
Reading Time: 5 minutes The evidence that Pakistan is a linguistically rich country is in the fact that as of 2016, it had 73 spoken languages as reported by Ethnologue. The data continued to show that out of the number, 66 of the languages spoken are indigenous, 8 are nonnative,…
The culture of overworking is often associated with the tech or finance industry. While some experts say that the glorification of work started at the turn of the millennia and others pin it on the spread of mercantilism in the 16th century. David Spencer, teaching economics at Leeds University Business School put forward, “There has…
According to Our World in Data, the world’s populations has grown from 1 billion in the 1800’s to 7.7 billion in 2021. And as of yet China has been holding the title for the world’s most populated country for the last few centuries. As stated by the data collected, in 2021, China is still in…
Despite being an individual country for well over half a century, Pakistan holds little recognition globally when it comes to its culture. Generally, when one thinks of South Asia, India immediately comes to mind with its vast diversity of people, languages, cultures, and ethnicities. This can be attributed to the fact that 74 years ago…
Known by millions then, and yet still, the portrait of the Afghan girl had a widespread impact around the world. Published as a cover of National Geographic magazine in June, 1985, this portrait was that of one adolescent girl named Sharbat Gula, who is depicted wearing a tattered reddish maroon dupatta (headscarf), with…
The architecture of any land is a physical record of its cultural history. The region which is now called Pakistan has seen diverse throngs of settlers and rulers and the evidence is in the architecture. The land itself might not be able to tell tales of the millions of different feet that stomped and walked…
Cinema has always been celebrated as a source of entertainment only but the truth is that it is much more. People might see movies as a leisure activity but the fact is that it passes on information on the topic being shown in the films. In Sajid Varda’s opinion , CEO and founder of…