Dubai expo started on October 1, 2021, and ended on March 31, 2022. It was originally scheduled for October 2020 to April 2021 but was postponed due to COVID-19. The UAE relaxed most COVID restrictions for the event. The expo registered at least 20 million visits.
The Pakistan Pavilion has been awarded the best exterior award given by the Burj Ceo. After winning the award for the best pavilion exterior design, a statement was issued by the Pakistani pavilion stating that “we are happy to win the award for the best pavilion exterior design at the Dubai Expo”.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is in the lead in the second phase of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) local government (LG) elections.
As per the unofficial results, the count for 38 out of 64 tehsil councils is complete. PTI succeeded in 18 tehsil councils and is in a leading position in 11 tehsil councils.
Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan congratulated Chief Minister KP Mahmood Khan for a successful win in the second phase of the KP LG polls while criticising the Opposition leaders, saying that the people of KP have “emphatically rejected the traitors who sold out to foreign masters”.
Congratulations to CM @IMMahmoodKhan & our PTI team for their overwhelming success in Phase 2 of KP LG polls. Ppl of KP have emphatically rejected the traitors who sold out to foreign masters. This is an early warning to all traitors of what awaits them in their constituencies.
In his tweet, the premier termed his party’s visible success as an “early warning to all traitors”, adding that this is “what awaits them in their constituencies”.
The provisional revenue collection data for the months of July 2021 to March 2022 of the current financial year 2021-22 have been announced by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR).
The net collection was Rs575 billion for the month of March 2022, up 20.5 per cent from Rs477 billion in March 2021.
Conversely, the gross revenues, rose by 28.9 per cent in the current financial year, from Rs3,577 billion in July 2020 to March 2021 to Rs4,611 billion in July 2021 to March 2022. Furthermore, the amount of reimbursements granted in March 2022 was Rs31.9 billion, compared to Rs26.3 billion in March 2021, showing a 21.3 per cent upsurge.
Then again, refunds of Rs229 billion were paid from July 2021 to March 2022, a 25 per cent increase over the Rs183 billion paid the previous year.
It is worth noting that the continuous remarkable growth in revenue collection has been achieved despite the government providing ‘massive tax relief’ to the general public on a variety of vital commodities.
For the first time in Pakistan’s history, the sales tax on all petroleum products was abolished, costing the FBR Rs45 billion in the past month.
American singer-actor Miley Cyrus gained worldwide fame as a child actor with Disney’s Hannah Montana, is someone who holds nothing back while giving interviews or interacting with fans.
From sharing her views on why she wears what she wears to her personal and sexual life, nothing much is hidden from the public.
In a resurfaced video from a 2020 podcast of hers, Miley spilled some beans that grabbed the headlines as she opened up on losing her virginity when she was a teen and lying about it to then-later, but now ex-husband Liam Hemsworth.
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During an interview on the Call Her Daddy podcast in August 2020, she opened up about losing her v*rginity and lying about it to Liam Hemsworth. The Midnight Sky singer said, “I was 16. It wasn’t Nick Jonas (who I lost my virginity to).” She added, “But I ended up marrying the guy, so that’s pretty crazy.” In other words, the Disney alum revealed that she lost her V-Card to Hemsworth.
Talking about why she lied to Liam Hemsworth about losing her innocence and implying that she had already had s*x, Miley Cyrus said, “I lied and said that he wasn’t the first so I didn’t seem like a loser.” She added, “He said, ‘Oh, who have you had sex with?’ And I couldn’t think of anyone, so I just made somebody up that I knew but we had never actually had sex before.”
The actress-singer then revealed that years later she found herself caught in the lie and had to confess the truth. She said, “[Liam’s] friend ended up marrying him, and then it was like, ‘Oh now my friend is marrying someone you’ve hooked up with?’So then when I was, like, 24, I had to say that I lied when I was 16. It was a lie that I held onto for, like, 10 years.”
Former Captain of the Pakistan Cricket team, Shahid Afridi has spoken out in favour of Prime Minister Imran Khan and has expressed his thoughts on the no-confidence motion against Imran Khan. He took to Twitter on Tuesday to share his opinion about the current situation in the country.
“It has been 74 years since Pakistan’s independence. For God’s sake, let at least one elected government complete its constitutional term.”
He also stressed that “wrongdoings” that have been done in 74 years will slowly end with the passage of time.
پاکستان کے قیام کو ۷۴ سال ہوگئے ہیں ۔ خدارا کسی ایک منتخب حکومت کو تو آئینی مدت پوری کرنے دیں کیونکہ ہر عوام کی منتخب کردہ حکومت کو آئینی مدت پوری کرنے کا حق ہے ۔ ۷۴ سال کی برائیاں ختم ہوتے ہوتے ہونگی
Afridi’s tweet came a few hours after PM Imran Khan’s address to the nation last night. The voting on the no-confidence motion is expected to be held on Sunday against PM Imran Khan. The majority of the allies of the government, which includes MQM, BAP, and independent candidates, have left and joined the Opposition to vote against PM Imran Khan.
The White House has rejected Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan’s allegations of the United States government’s involvement in a plot to remove him.
Responding to media questions regarding the issue, White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield said, “There is absolutely no truth to the allegation.”
Thank you PM IK for making a mockery of an entire nation and further isolating the country pic.twitter.com/CzDfpVMtEX
US Department of State Spokesperson Ned Price said, “We are closely following developments in Pakistan. We respect and support Pakistan’s constitutional process and the rule of law. But when it comes to those allegations, there is no truth to them.”
Actor Zoya Nasir has opened up on her divorce in a chat with an online magazine.
Despite growing up as the daughter of Nasir Adeeb, the scriptwriter known mostly for creating the universe of Maula Jutt, Zoya wasn’t allowed to pursue acting as a career. She eventually repressed her passion and joined Sabs, the beauty salon, as a junior partner and became a full-time beautician.
Zoya talked about the backlash she faced over her weight and the challenges of defeating the persistent nepotism and lobbying in the industry. The starlet also talked about her divorce and advocated for young girls to have a career and an independent outlook at life before marriage.
“While I don’t want to get into details, it’s important to share that I was 19 when I got married. He was 8 years older than me. I was so young, even for my age, that I didn’t know how to take a stand for myself or how to greet people as a bahu,” Zoya recalled, highlighting the struggles of teen marriages.
“I wasn’t a partner in my marriage, I was a kid, given responsibilities. My world was so small at the time that I’d succumbed to anything they’d ask of me. I never reflected on who I was as a person, I just became how people wanted me to. I’d accept mistakes even when I wasn’t at fault. When I got divorced, my family realised that it wasn’t the right move for anyone that young. I needed to broaden my horizon.” She went on to urge elders everywhere, “Do not marry teen girls. Let them see the real world and know themselves. Otherwise, they’ll spend their lives being inferior to people all the time.
Zoya was engaged to vlogger Christian Betzmann too but called it off earlier last year because of his problematic statements against Palestine and Pakistan.
The 35-year-old also narrated how her salon was hired to do hair and makeup for a channel’s film festival, which eventually led to her venture into the realm of acting. “It was then that Sonya (Khan) jee and Salman Iqbal saw me mimicking and thought I was cut out for it. In that moment, all my repressed dreams of acting reappeared and suddenly I figured, I’m an adult now, I don’t need my family’s approval to do this, so I said yes. We had a few meetings, they offered me a lead role in Hania and now I’m here.”
While Zoya is grateful she was cast in a lead role alongside actor Junaid Khan in the 2019 drama, she wouldn’t advise the move for newcomers in the industry. “I wish I didn’t start like that. I made a mistake. I didn’t know anything at that time. Now that I’ve worked with Farhan Saeed, Hadiqa Kiani, Bilal Abbas, I’ve seen how they do their homework. They know everything from lights to production and of course, their character. I’ve learnt so much that I can see my mistakes in the serial,” she admitted.
“I wouldn’t recommend a lead role to anyone as a newcomer in this world. Even if you have contacts, don’t take them. Work as a side character with notable actors, that way the pressure eases and you learn enough to stand out when you get a lead role,” added Zoya.
Despite her convincing talent, Zoya has had her fair share of challenges too, including harsh criticism about her appearance. But the Deewangi actor isn’t bothered by people spreading negativity around her. “People have often said that I do not have the face of a heroine, that I don’t look the part. I ask you to define a lead actor. Define a heroine. Can a fat, [not fair] girl not have a story to tell or is it not worth listening to? I never take offence to the statement because the definition of a lead actor is flawed here.”
Sharing incidents from when she had to take a stand against the industry embedding stereotypes, she narrated, “I went to the US for some work and came back tanned while I was working on this serial. The show makers gave a horrific reaction. They told me they’d offer me whitening injections on the house but will not tolerate the “dark, ugly” colour. It was insane. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I refused straight away.”
Zoya also lost a project while standing up for her beliefs. “I had signed a web series where I had to play a girl who is under any illusion that she’s beautiful but in she isn’t. The producer asked me to put on a black foundation. I refused and said I’ll wash my face if you do this because dark skin doesn’t equal to ugly. He told me that it was either his way or the highway. I took the highway and walked out.”
Another challenge that the actor faced was the prevailing system of lobbies. “My inspiration is Hiba Bukhari. She didn’t come from a lobby and yet took over the industry with her talent. I want to be able to defeat the lobby too. I wish to go beyond the tag of nepotism and prove my acting, because honestly if you know someone in the industry and ask them for a lead role, you get it easily. There are fewer (female) actors than male ones.”
But irrespective of the challenges, the Zebaish actor is grateful to be at a phase where she can choose projects according to her liking. Overwhelmed with the love she gets from fans, she shared that once a lady thought of her as Hania (from her debut drama) and gave her duas at a hospital. “I had a panic attack and was taken to the hospital. An old lady thought of me as Hania and gave me prayers for my recovery. That moment still stays with me.”
Earlier she appeared on Neo TV’s show G Sarkar, in which the Zebaish star reveled that her mother was abducted for thrice when she was a sitting MPA. She continued by adding that the kidnappers used to take her to a barren area and leave her there.
The Dobara diva confessed that she feels scared to travel on motorway because of her mothers frequent abductions.
Zoya also shared a disturbing encounter with criminals in Karachi, she said that when she was coming back from a shoot, gunpoint robbers stopped her car and she got so afraid that she ran out of the car screaming, and due to her screaming the muggers went away.
Earlier, Zoya Nasir clapped back to a troll on Instagram for criticising her choice of dressing. A netizen commented unpleasant remarks about her choice of dressing in her birthday picture.
On the work front, Zoya was last seen in ARY’s Meray Apnay.
Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry has said that a plot to assassinate Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has been reported by security agencies. Therefore, PM Khan’s security has also been increased.
سیکیورٹی ایجنسیوں نے رپورٹ کیا ہے کہ وزیر اعظم عمران خان پر قاتلانہ حملےکا منصوبہ سامنے آیا ہے، ان رپورٹس کے بعد حکومتی فیصلے کے مطابق وزیر اعظم کی سیکیورٹی میں اضافہ کر دیا گیا ہے۔
The minister’s words come a day after PM Khan, during a live address to the nation, said that “an international conspiracy” is being hatched against his government.
Fawad is not the only Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader who has talked about the assassination being plotted against PM Khan.
PTI leader Faisal Vawda said that a conspiracy was being hatched to assassinate the premier over his refusal to “sell the country”.
Vawda made these claims on ARY News show “Off the Record” in response to a question about a letter that PM Khan brandished at the PTI’s March 27 power show in Islamabad and claimed it contained “evidence” of a “foreign conspiracy” to topple his government.
He also said that the prime minister was told multiple times that bulletproof glass needed to be installed before his dais at the March 27 rally. “But as always and as usual, he said my [death] will come when Allah wills. Don’t worry about it,” Vawda quoted him as saying.
The government has decided to maintain the existing prices for petroleum products for the fortnight. Petroleum prices will remain unchanged from April 1 to April 15, as per a statement released by the finance division.
Petrol is currently priced at Rs149.86 per liter, while diesel, kerosene oil, and light diesel are priced at Rs144.15, Rs125.56, and Rs118.31 per liter, respectively.
Following an increase in global market prices at the time, the government approved a record-breaking Rs12.03 per liter hike for petrol on February 15. Surprisingly, on February 28, the government decreased POL prices by Rs10 per liter, to lessen the impact of existing inflation on the public.
The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA), on the other hand, has raised the price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by Rs13 per liter.
After an increase of Rs157 per domestic cylinder and Rs606 per commercial cylinder, the prices of domestic and commercial LPG cylinders have been fixed at Rs2,916 and Rs11,220, respectively, for April 2022.
Conversely, in the aftermath of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the international market saw massive volatility as crude oil prices reached new highs.
Pakistan opening batsman Imam-ul-Haq has set a record against Australia, making a century. He has now become the fastest batsman in history.
The opening batsman reached this record in the 48th inning of his ODI career. Hashim Amla had scored his ninth century in 52 innings, Quinton de Kock took 53 and Babar Azam took 61 innings to score their century in ODIs.
Starting his career with a hundred on debut, Imam-ul-Haq knows how to pile on the centuries. After a remarkable century in the first ODI, Imam-ul-Haq smashed yet another hundred in the second match of the home series against Australia.
Pakistan won the match against Australia by six wickets.
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