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In my opinion, a woman's body is not her only asset.
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Asset
In My Opinion
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Pakistan is my home; I don't want to feel harassed in my own home.
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Pakistan
Harassed
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To be honest, I didn't even know my smile could be such a big deal.
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Big Deal
Such A Big Deal
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I pray that people will stand by women who have been violated and victimized.
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Pray
Victimized
Violated
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I don't mind being in the public eye as long as I am doing something substantial.
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Public Eye
Substantial
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I haven't moved to Pakistan, but I love it here and I always keep extending my trips.
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Extending
Pakistan
Love Always Keep
Trips
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I stand by all the women who have had to deal with inappropriate behavior of any sort.
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Inappropriate
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I've been personally attacked for respectfully expressing my take on women's empowerment.
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Empowerment
Attacked
Expressing
Respectfully
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I have grown up listening to Strings and they have always been a source of inspiration to me.
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Strings
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Coke Studio is a big platform for music in Pakistan and I really feel honored to be a part of it.
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Coke
Honored
Pakistan
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You cannot write-off someone and consider them inferior in any way based on how much money they make.
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How Much Money
Inferior
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There's a downside to glamour and since I know that, I think that's why I have been able to stay grounded.
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Grounded
Downside
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The quote that helped me the most with my life was: It only gets better when you get better. That woke me up.
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Life Me Better
Helped
Quote
Woke
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So many people have done Coke Studio but my song broke all records. I think I was highlighted too much after CS.
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Broke
Coke
So Many People
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When I started learning the violin, my choir teacher thought I could sing. But when I first got on stage, I froze!
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Choir
Violin
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Only if you love yourself, only if you're happy with yourself and only if you know your own worth will you ever be happy.
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Love Yourself
Love Love Yourself Yourself
Be Happy
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If you go out for a jog you feel threatened because all of these men start following you, cat-calling and whistling at you.
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Threatened
Whistling
Jog
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As an artist, it is heartwarming to see other artists appreciate your work by making covers and renditions of your original track.
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Heartwarming
Covers
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I am supremely humbled to receive the 40 Under Forty honor by Stony Brook University in the category of Civil Service and Activism.
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Activism
Civil Service
Forty
Brook
Humbled
Receive
Supremely
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As feminists, we have to become more tolerant of each other's differences because we are essentially working towards the same goal.
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Differences
Feminists
Tolerant
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I feel as a singer and musician, it's my responsibility to talk about social issues, and you will hear about them in my music as well.
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Social Issues
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If I can do something about it and won't because I want to hog the limelight, then I really have no right to talk about women's empowerment.
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Empowerment
Hog
Limelight
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I want to be more than just a musician or an artist and I felt that I achieved that, with Forbes. I was ready to start a new chapter in my life.
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Forbes
Achieved
Life Start My Life
Chapter
Life My Life Start
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'Muntazir' has a very feel-good vibe to it. It's Strings' signature composition, especially the pre-chorus. I thoroughly enjoyed lending my vocals to it.
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Composition
Lending
Strings
Signature
Thoroughly
Vibe
Vocals
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I've always loved maths, so in college when I started engineering, I had applied math and I really liked it, so I overloaded my courses and did two degrees.
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College
Courses
Degrees
Engineering
Math
Overloaded
Applied
Loved
Liked
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My iPhone was blowing up with notifications that I had became a superstar overnight. It changed my life and I was hiding after that to avoid unnecessary talk.
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Hiding
Iphone
Superstar
Unnecessary
Blowing
Life My Life Talk
Overnight
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The LUMS Olympiad back 10 years ago gave me a boost to sing songs where I first met with amazing Uzair Jaswal who did not sing cover songs but his original songs.
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Boost
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I am not about glamour, fame and all that comes with it, so now that people know me so much, I think I have a responsibility to give them back and set a good example.
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Good Example
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When I started college, I wrote a song 'Pee Jaun,' with a friend. I never intended to make mainstream music, but that song did really well and I got some recognition.
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Recognition
Intended
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I got a call for 'Aaya Na Tu' the same day that Forbes featured me in their list of 30 under 30. That day, I knew I had established myself as more than just a singer.
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Forbes
Myself Me Day
Established
Featured
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Do we hate our women? I don't think so. In fact, Pakistan has more women representation in government than the U.S., and we have twice elected a female head of state.
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Pakistan
Representation
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A song is essentially an 'asset' after its creation and release because it can be traded, sold or rented. This makes it the backbone of earnings in the 'music ecosystem.'
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Creation
Release
Asset
Earnings
Ecosystem
Sold
Traded
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Empowering women in Pakistan would mean raising them equal to boys, providing them the same education, giving them the same job opportunities, equal wages and equal respect.
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Empowering
Equal
Giving
Pakistan
Providing
Wages
Boy
Opportunities
Raising
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There was a time in my life where I was very depressed, I had lost all self-esteem. I came to a point where I couldn't even look at myself in the mirror, I had gained weight.
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Self Esteem
Weight
Life Time Myself
Depressed
Gained
Mirror
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The growing reach of Coke Studio Pakistan is mostly evident in the Middle East and the sub continent but with the passage of time it is rising across Asia as well as the west.
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Asia
Coke
Evident
Middle East
Pakistan
Continent
Passage
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The vision that Islamabad United have for social issues, particularly with their Empowerment Programs is something that I feel strongly about, and look forward to contributing to.
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Contributing
Empowerment
Social Issues
Vision
Particularly
Forward
Programs
Strongly
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I started having anxiety attacks and panic attacks. I would cry myself to sleep every night and wish I could go back in time and get my life back and be a human again instead of a photo op.
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Every Night
Panic
Life Time Myself
Attacks
Photo
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Women face discrimination in sport the world over. The reason we don't have more Serena Williams is because we don't really have the same facilities and coaching for women that we do for men.
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Discrimination
Men Women Face
Facilities
Women Men Face
Williams
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It's time Pakistani women are able to stand up and hold their oppressors accountable, no matter how strong or influential they are. Don't be scared. They are strong because we are weak - lets change that.
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Influential
Oppressors
Weak
Time Change Women
Accountable
Change Time Women
Lets
Pakistani
Stand Up
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My song 'Afreen Afreen' which I performed with Rahat Fateh Ali Khan was the most international heard track and it received over 93 million views. So, with every new season Coke Studio is doing a great job.
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Coke
Great Job
Heard
International
Track
Views
Ali
Million
New Season
Performed
Studio
Received
Season
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In South Asia, there is a lack of understanding of the term 'empowerment' because majority of the people think that the definition of women empowerment is to wear fewer clothes, to renounce her culture and traditions, and that it's synonymous with immorality.
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Asia
Empowerment
Fewer
Immorality
Renounce
South Asia
Women Culture People
Definition
Synonymous
Traditions
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