High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Paaras is a bilingual (Urdu & English) family magazine published each month from Canada for the large Pakistani Canadian community in North America by Meridian Multimedia Network Inc.The project was founded in 2002 by a team of scholars, writers & journalists under the leadership of internationally renowned Pakistani-Canadian intellectual and a former member of Pakistan's parliament, Shah Baleeghuddin, Paaras publishes an interesting mix of contents including integrating commentaries on current affairs, in-depth coverage of critical issues, humour and poetry. First issue of Paaras was published in October 2002.