On the occasion of Women's Day. we thought it best to include some prominent females who have always contributed in portraying a respectable and positive image of Pakistan globally.
KARACHI: Oscar-winning filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy stated that her film A Girl In The River: The Price Of Forgiveness showed Pakistan's best as well as worst side, ARY News reported.
Oscar winning filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy reacted to news of Syed Noor's accusations that she had stole the plot of his film and its title 'The Price of Honour' from 2011.
Lollywood heavyweights Syed Noor and Moammar Rana were certainly not pleased with Oscar winning director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy as Noor accused her of copying the name and idea of A Girl In The River: The Price of Forgiveness from an upcoming movie of his.
LAHORE: A father has shot dead his daughter in the Pakistani city of Lahore in an apparent "honour killing", police said Tuesday, a day after a Pakistani director won an Oscar for a documentary on such murders.
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly paid tribute to filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, who yet again won the Academy Award for the category Best Documentary - Short Subject.
KARACHI: Users of social media website Twitter in Pakistan reacted in different manners to Pakistani director Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy's second Oscar win, ARY News reported.
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif have congratulated Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy for winning prestigious Oscar Award for the second time.
LOS ANGELES: Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy won her second Oscar in the Best Documentary - Short Subject category for her film A Girl in the River, after her first Academy Award in 2012 for Saving Face in the same category.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy made history by winning Pakistan's first Oscar four years ago. Now she's back in Hollywood, hoping to scoop a second Academy Award for her harrowing film about a teenage girl shot in the face by her own family.
Earning a nomination yet again, Pakistan's very own Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is all set to represent Pakistan once more when she attends the 88th Academy Awards on February 28.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said at the screening of 'A girl in the river: The price of forgiveness' that there was no honour in honour killing, ARY News reported.
ISLAMABAD: Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy met Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who promised her that the government would do everything to remove the stain of honour killing from Pakistan.
LOS ANGELES: Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy attended the Oscar luncheon hosted at the Beverly Hilton and met with some of Hollywood's biggest names.
An Oscar-winning filmmaker hopes her latest Academy Award-nominated documentary will help bring tougher laws against honour killings in Pakistan, which account for the deaths of hundreds of women and men each year.
KARACHI: Pakistan's only Oscar-winning director Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy is on the route to once again become pride of the nation as another of her documentary film has been nominated for The Oscars.