It might seem positively dated by now to the younger lot, but back in the day, MTV was the cutting edge. It was as in-your-face as could be. It might have lost its thunder and centrality to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, but it was quite a break from the norm back then.
Its early presenters were quite the rage and young, pretty Kristiane Backer was one of them. She was rumoured, in those days, to be dating Imran Khan, the then stylish cricketer who would go on to not become prime minister. In fact, he was rumoured to have given her the impression he was going to marry her, only for him to marry Jemima Goldsmith instead. Well, too late, because Backer had already converted to Islam by then.
She went on to write a book titled, From MTV to Mecca. She arrived in Pakistan recently, when the Urdu translation of her book was launched. It is not known whether she met Mr Khan here.
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The prime minister’s son, Hassan Nawaz, was seen aboard a flight going from here to London recently. Though, okay, it was a first class flight, what struck people as surprising was the fellow’s unassuming air and the lack of protocol that was accorded to him. Perhaps the fellow was always like this. Good show! Now if he could only spread this habit around somehow…
