Celebrations have been had, fireworks have been video captured, street dancing has been enjoyed and traffic jams have been cursed. With the new year having well and truly arrived, Pakistanis are now looking at the forthcoming 365 days and hoping for new beginnings.
Well, here are a bunch of things that Pakistanis can definitely expect in 2016:
1. Pakistan’s answer to the IPL dominating the airwaves of the cricket-watching population of the world
Source: livepslt20
2. Mahira Khan’s domination of the cinema in Pakistan as well as the rest of the world
Thanks to her high profile Bollywood debut as Shahrukh Khan’s wife in Raees.
Source: reviewit
3. Nawaz Sharif visiting Narendra Modi for his birthday and enjoying some aalo ki bhujia
Source: Zee News
4. Donald Trump NOT being the person that Mr. Sharif will have to congratulate
Source: African News Today
5. Waqar bhai and Qandeel Baloch coming together in a video. Maybe even featuring Mathira in it, too.
6. Our “leaders” hopefully not throwing potty at each other by bringing personal lives into political disputes
Via: Siasat
7. More of Hunger Games: Pakistani Aunty Edition once the lawn season arrives
Via: Express Tribune
8. And aunties going even more crazy at this sight
Source: Masala
9. Pakistani hockey team being a no-show at the 2016 Olympics in Rio for the first time ever.
Source: India
10. Mohammad Amir playing for Pakistan again.
Source: Dawn
11. Meera jee prewposing, porpoising, proposing her name for the slot of Mrs. Khan # 3
Via: Express Tribune
12. The return of Ayesha Mumtaz
Unless her other “assignments” never end.
Source: Punjab Food Authority Via: Twitter
13. More of these guys
14. Hopefully, mercifully, less of this
Source: Xinhua News
15. Nargis Fakhri never again posing on the front page in the Urdu newspapers
Via: Mashable
16. And the people learning tolerance for everyone’s point of views
Source: Dawn
Let the hardliners be themselves, let the liberals have their parties, let’s just respect everyone for who they are even if we don’t agree with their views.