Fashion Trend in Karachi

Karachi Fashion industry is a well and rapidly growing industry. Fashion has became an important part of our daily life . Basically fashion is all around us. We actually walk and talk in fashion. In Pakistan a large numbers of designers are
working to provide all fashion loving Pakistanis the up to date and latest fashion clothes.

Numbers of fashion designers in Karachi and all over Pakistan and Abroad are providing their services on individual basis. Their Personal boutiques and outlets are also available in Karachi, and some of the designers are providing their services collectively.

And when we talk about wats IN?

We find out all the oldy goldy fashion has took a U - turn. The Fashion of 60′s short tight shirts along with patyala or choori daar pajama, and the fashion of 80′s and 90′s long and loose kameez and trousers. But when it comes to now we find Fashion is what u wear and put on well. Fashion is in people.

Karachi people are themselves fashionable. Karachi is the most fashionable city of Pakistan. All the traditional Fashion along with internatinal fashion. people,their dresses,hair style,footwear,accesories and their life style is fashion. All the big names of fashion Industry are working and launching their fashion magazines and fashion shows.
“Anything that makes or form anything in style and shape is Fashion.”

Karachi Fashion Week: In search of talent

Karachi Fashion Week 2011 is set to feature new talent.

 

KARACHI:  Karachi Fashion Week launched a choreographer and model hunt programme at Park Towers on July 11. The three-day activity is aimed to find new faces for the fashion week starting from October 6. To be held at Marriott Hotel, Karachi, the event will come to a close on October 9, after presenting 24 runway shows with over 20 retail brands and designers participating in it.

CEO Karachi Fashion Council, Tariq Amin is supervising the three-day activity which will conclude with the selection of 15 male and female models, each.
During a press conference held at Park Towers, CEO Triple-E Arshad Siddiqui said: “The main aim of the Karachi Fashion Week is to promote trade and boost exports which will eventually make Pakistan strong.”
“The organiser Triple-E has been signed on as the official representative at the World Fashion Organisation. Around 40 countries are party to it. This is indeed a great platform to boost e-commerce services for Pakistani fashion and textile industry,” he added.
Siddiqui announced that at the upcoming Welcome Gala of the World Fashion Organisation, fashion icons from around the world will gather and the international committee has “selected fashion designer Nilofer Shahid and model Rabia Butt as Pakistan’s official representatives.” The event will take place in New York in September this year.
Talking to The Express Tribune, Amin said: “There are many good retail brands that offer pret. Fashion is a global thing and during Karachi Fashion Week 2011, our target is not the fashion designers but our retail market. We plan to dress the world, and not just those five per cent of Pakistan.”
“We need to do a world product. Our models should be able to go to Dubai and should not be limited to Pakistan only and this, I believe, can be done,” added Amin.
About the search for models, Amin said: “This is our talent pool that is coming out of Karachi, the search for models injects new blood in the industry. Better people come out of it.”
Criticising the other councils to be too business-centred, Amin claimed that Karachi Fashion Council is primarily focused on exports. “It’s a numbers game. By selling five Pakistani items, we can’t compete in the world. We need to find people who can dress the nation and the world,” he said.


Published in The Express Tribune, July 13^th, 2011.

Wheat transportation ban unlikely to bear fruit - Karachi

KARACHI - The price hike in the open market and reports of illegal hoarding of commodity by various quarters has almost stopped the momentum of wheat procurement process of food department.
However, provincial department also not certain about the achieving of wheat procurement target of 1.7 million tons for this season owing to reported reasons, officials told The Nation on Sunday.
The home department of Sindh government has been reported by Food Department that the wheat and flour prices are showing upward trend during last couple of days and this situation is alarming and may create un-rest amongst the people especially before the holy month of Ramadan.
Besides the upward trend of wheat prices has also stopped the procurement of commodity at official level in this season, the spokesman of the food department of Sindh Government said, adding, the Food Department has fixed a procurement target of 1.5 million tons, which to be further enhanced upto 1.7 million tons of wheat for the current Crop-2011.
A significant quantity of 1.4 million tons wheat has so far been procured upto till the end of June, 2011, spokesman said.
In a bid to arrest the price hike trend of flour and discourage hoarding of commodity, the Government of Sindh on July 2, 2011 through a notification had already imposed ban on inter-district movement of wheat and across the borders of the Sindh Province for a period of one month (30 days) with immediate effect. In pursuance of Section 195(1) (a)Cr.P.C, the SHO of concerned Police Station has been authorized to register the complaints under Section 188 PPC in writing for the violation of Section 144 Cr.P.C. against the violators of this order. When contacted, president of Flour Mills Association of Sindh Chapter Mian Mehmood Hassan told The Nation that flour mills and ‘Atta Chakies’ have been exempted from ban of inter-district movement of wheat in the province.

Lailatul Qadr, Is it Significant To You?

One of the most distinctive aspects of the month of Ramadhan is that it includes lailatul qadr (the night of power), which is the most blessed night of the year. This is that very night in which Allah Ta’ala chose to reveal the Holy Quran upon our beloved Rasool (s.a.w.). This is also the night wherein Allah decides the destiny, sustenance, birth, and death etc. for His creation. It is mentioned in the Holy Quran that this night is better than a thousand months (83 years & four months) as Allah himself speaks:

SIGNIFICANCE

“The night of al qadr is better than a thousand months.” (verse 3 Surah Al Qadr).

This means the worship performed in this night brings more reward than that worship carried out for the period of a thousand ordinary months.

In the authentic teachings of Rasoolullah (s.a.w.), it is mentioned that Allah Ta’ala showers his special mercy in this night towards the inhabitants of the earth, accepts the duaas made by his servants and forgives all those people who repent sincerely, as Rasoolullah (s.a.w.) has stated in a hadith

“Whosoever stood up in front of Allah on the night of qadr with Iman and true conviction of attaining reward from Allah, in return, Allah will forgive all his previous sins.” (Muslim)

WHEN?

According to authentic sources lailatul qadr falls in any one of the last five odd nights of Ramadhan i.e. 21, 23, 25, 27 and 29th, as we are told in the hadith related by Ibne Umar (r.a.), Rasoolullah (s..a.w.) said “ ...and, search for lailatul qadr in the odd nights of the last ten days of Ramadhan.”

WHAT SHOULD BE DONE IN THIS NIGHT?

In this night a person should make worship of Allah Ta’ala exceptionally. One can engage in the offering of nafl (Sunnah) prayers as much as possible or in supplications, in the recitation of the Holy Quran or by any other good deed, which is not contrary to the Shariah.

“The person who deprives himself from the blessings of Lailatul qadr, indeed has deprived himself of all good and none other than an ignorant person is deprived from such good.” (Ibne Majah).

Considering this hadith, we should attempt to spare some time for the worship of Allah Ta’ala on this auspicious night.

The most profound way to derive benefit from the blessings of this night, is to stay awake for the whole night and spend it in prayers, but people who cannot do so, for any reason, should at least spare a reasonable portion of the night for Allah. Some rakaahs should be offered in the least, after midnight as tahajjud, the Quran should be recited, duaas be made, and any form of zhikr should be constantly uttered.

Once, the beloved wife Aiysha (r.a.) inquired from Rasoolullah (s.a.w.) as to what duaa should be made on the lailatul qadr, upon this Rasoolullah (s.a.w.) taught her the following duaa

"Allahumma innaka afuwwun kareemun tuhib-bul af-wa fa-afo anni"

(O Allah, You are the One who grants pardon for sins, loves forgiving, so forgive me.) 

Indeed the blessings of our Lord are innumerable, but fortunate are those who reap them and regard them as significant.

Abu Mas'ud 'Uqba ibn 'Amr al-Ansari al-Badri reported that the Messenger of Allah, (PBUH), said, "Anyone who shows the way to something good has the same reward as the person who does it." [Muslim]

E.g. if you encourage someone to go for Salah, or pay Zakat and the person actually goes ahead and prays or pays Zakat, Allah will reward him for the good deeds and at the same time give you (the one that encouraged them to do good) an equal reward as he has given them- without decreasing what he gave them.

So Encourage Other To Do Good And Refrain From Bad Deeds