TikTok to expand testing of its ‘Stories’ feature
- 18-Mar-2022
TikTok is reportedly expanding its stories feature, which the platform started testing last summer, TechCrunch reported. TikTok stories are visible for 24 hours and can be viewed by going over a user’s profile and clicking their profile picture. Stories can also be seen on the For you page on the TikTok application. Similar to Instagram or […]
Nomad girl: Karachi hitchhiker learns to make a living her way
- 22-Jan-2022
KARACHI: Maria Soomro is a banker turned tour guide who embarked on this new trajectory hitchhiking. That’s quite literally what she now does for a living. Having traveled across the large parts of Pakistani and Turkey only taking ‘lifts’, as its colloquially referred to, she claims to be the first girl here to have done […]
Hiding agony behind a joker mask, this woman makes ends meet… tries to
- 29-Aug-2021
“Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation,” rightly worded together by an American aphorist, as for when worldly troubles corner you, you capitulate no matter how strong or nice or innocent you may be. Same holds true for this Lahore’s Mall Road joker. Selling toys and spreading joys on Lahore streets […]
Determined lady in Lahore feeds hygienic food to people amid nationwide lockdown
- 03-Jun-2020
Rukhsana Gulzar Qureshi, a lady in Lahore feeds hundreds of people daily with hygienic food amid the nationwide lockdown situation due to widely-spread coronavirus.
A young boy sells newspaper despite freezing weather in Peshawar
- 06-Jan-2020
To earn bread and butter, a young boy in Peshawar doesn’t care freezing weather and goes car by car to sell the newspaper on the motorway. Like and follow our Facebook page (ARY Stories) for more stories: https://www.facebook.com/arystories/
Pakistan’s Shahid serves humanity in Dubai
- 15-Oct-2019
Hailed from Pakistan, Shahid provides free food to more than 500 labors/needy people per day in Dubai and makes his country proud.
UK conman posing as Sherlock Holmes stories’ cop jailed
- 20-Oct-2017
LONDON: A British conman who posed as a policeman with the same name as the inspector from the Sherlock Holmes stories and stole thousands of pounds in cash, has been jailed. Aaron Cowan, 24, of Kent — a county southeast of London — identified himself as Greg Lestrade, the fictional inspector from Sir Arthur Conan […]
Facebook adds Snapchat-like camera filters to Instagram
- 16-May-2017
Facebook’s Instagram has souped up its camera tool with quirky face-tracking filters, adding another feature similar to that offered by social media rival Snap Inc’s Snapchat. Instagram users will now be able to choose from a range of filters including koala ears that move and twitch as well as math equations that spin to create […]
Less than picture perfect: Snap slumps on slowing user growth
- 11-May-2017
Snap shares slumped 22 percent in premarket trading on Thursday after the owner of the wildly popular Snapchat app’s user growth and revenue numbers failed to show that it was adequately dealing with rising competition from Facebook. Snap, which calls itself a camera company, posted its debut quarterly scorecard following its hugely successful IPO in […]
President launches book on success stories of BISP beneficiaries
- 20-Apr-2017
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain on Thursday launched the book “Stories of BISP’ which brings the real stories of BISP beneficiaries in eighteen different languages to the world, reflecting the impact of BISP stipends to improve the lives of poor women and families. It is Pakistan’s first multilingual book published in Urdu, Balochi, Pashtu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Kashmiri, […]