Following Karachi Kings’ eighth consecutive loss at the hands of Multan Sultans on Wednesday at the Gaddafi Stadium, people severely criticised Babar Azam for his performance and his form in the ongoing Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2022. Babar’s father defended his son and requested fans not to lose hope in him.
Azam Siddique, who is always bucking his son up regardless of how well or otherwise he performs, opened up on the matter in his latest Instagram post, but with a positive mindset.
Siddique admitted that Babar is out of form these days, but said that the star cricketer of the nation never panics.
“He neither stops working hard nor does he despair of Allah’s mercy.”
Siddique said that Babar is trying his best but it is known that even the best of the best sportsmen get out of form.
He said that they are content with God’s will and pray that may the Almighty restore Babar’s form soon before the national squad faces Australia in the upcoming home series.
Siddique also consoled Babar and Karachi Kings’ fans not to get disheartened, assuring that the cricketer is working as hard as he did in the past and will get into form very soon.
The ill-fated Kings’ were eliminated from the title race of the PSL’s seventh edition after their seventh consecutive defeat, handed down to them by Islamabad United on Sunday.
Federal Minister for Religious and Minority Affairs Noorul Haq Qadri has written a letter to Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan asking to put a ban on the Aurat March.
Qadri, in a letter to the premier, wrote that March 8 should be observed as “International Hijaab Day” rather than Aurat March.
The federal minister further stated that no one should be permitted to mock Islamic rituals, values, or the wearing of Hijaab on Women’s Day by organising Aurat March or any other event.
It is pertinent to mention here that every year on March 8, the world observes “Women’s Day” while women activists and other organisations in Pakistan refer to this day as Aurat March.
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Senator Sherry Rehman, taking to Twitter and sharing the letter from the federal minister to the PM Khan regarding the ban of Aurat March, questioned: “What will you prove by banning Aurat March?”
“International Women’s Day is named after women of all classes. International Women’s Day aims to raise awareness in the society against gender stereotypes and prejudices against women,” said the PPP leader.
وفاقی وزیربرائے مذہبی امور نورالحق قادری کا 8 مارچ کو عورت مارچ پر پابندی عائد کرنے متعلق وزیراعظم کو خط قابل تشویش ہے۔ وفاقی وزیر کی طرف سے اس طرح کی بات حیران کن ہے۔ 8 مارچ عالمی سطح پر عورتوں کا دن منایا جاتا ہے۔ آپ نہتی عورتوں کے مارچ پر پابندی لگا کر کیا کیا ثابت کرے گے؟1/3 pic.twitter.com/sy3LLxlHUd
Monal, a restaurant in Islamabad, which was sealed through a court order, was broken into on Wednesday. Management of the restaurant, which included 70-80 employees, broke a padlock seal and entered the premises of the site on February 16, reports Samaa News.
Employees reached the site in the morning and asked the Wildlife department workers not to intervene.
While talking to Samaa News, a Wildlife management board representative, monitoring the closure, said, “They told us that the Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the restaurant and allowed them to resume activities.”
The authorities asked restaurant employees to produce a court order but they refused and broke the padlock seal into pieces.
After breaking into the restaurant, employees started adjusting seats and tables.
According to the representative, they had never stopped the restaurant staff to look after their items which were left there and we cooperated with them fully.
On January 11, Islamabad High Court (IHC) ordered Islamabad’s Chief Commissioner to seal the Monal Restaurant in Margalla Hills National Park.
A swimmer died after being bitten by a shark at a beach in suburban Sydney, Australian authorities said, marking the first fatal shark attack in the city in nearly 60 years.
An eyewitness told local television that he had been fishing off nearby rocks when he saw a man wearing a wetsuit and swimming across the bay get dragged underwater by a large shark in an attack that lasted several seconds.
“Some guy was swimming and a shark came and attacked him vertically,” witness Kris Linto, told Nine.
“We heard a yell and turned around — it looked like a car had landed in the water, a big splash, then the shark was chomping at the body and there was blood everywhere.”
Another witness estimated the shark was 4.5 metres in size.
“When he went down, there were so many splashes,” the witness, who had been fishing on rocks nearby, told ABC.
It was the first fatal shark attack in Sydney since 1963, data shows.
Lifeguards will patrol the beaches looking for further shark sightings.
Emergency services arrived in the area of Buchan Point, Malabar, around 4:35pm local time on Wednesday, following a report of a shark attacking a swimmer in the water, according to New South Wales police. Officers found human remains in the water.
“Officers attached to Eastern Beaches Police Area Command, with assistance from the Marine Area Command and Surf Life Saving NSW, attended and located human remains in the water,” it said.
An NSW Ambulance spokeswoman said paramedics were called to Little Bay. “Unfortunately, this patient had suffered catastrophic injuries and there was nothing paramedics could do.”
Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), has arrived in Pakistan for a one-day visit. Gates will meet with Prime Minister Imran Khan and President Arif Alvi. He will also visit the National Command and Operation Centre headquarters. Gates will pay a visit to the COVID-19 treatment facility in Chak Shahzad.
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr Faisal Sultan, in a tweet, said, “It’s a pleasure to welcome Mr Bill Gates on his first-ever visit to Pakistan. Planned engagements include a review of progress on polio eradication; visits to NCOC and Ehsaas program as well as meeting the President, the PM and health leadership of the provinces.”
It is a pleasure to welcome Mr Bill Gates on his first ever visit to Pakistan. Planned engagements include review of progress on polio eradication; visits to NCOC and Ehsaas program as well as meeting the President, the PM and health leadership of the provinces.
Last year in October, Gates, in a telephonic conversation with Imran Khan, praised Pakistan’s efforts to eradicate polio and at the same time, pledged his continued support against the disease so that no child in Pakistan is affected by the disease in the future.
A video clip from the Pakistan Super League’s (PSL) match between Karachi Kings and Multan Sultans is circulating on Twitter in which Wasim Akram can be seen going harsh on Babar Azam at the boundary line in the last over against Sultans where Karachi’s defeat was obvious.
Twitter users were disappointed to see the all-format captain of Pakistan being treated like this by Akram. Angry social media users schooled the former cricketer for this behaviour.
Was Wasim Akram going harsh on Babar Azam on the boundary line?If so then it’s totally wrong!You can’t do that to captain of national team. Did Babar chose squad of Karachi Kings?It is only Babar who’s performing for KK. Babar at the receiving end of anger is unjustified!#HBLPSL7pic.twitter.com/QEHJmU8YS8
Really disappointed to see All Format Captain of Pakistan @babarazam258 is being treated like this by Wasim Akram. He is our hero and world’s best player, win and lose is part of game but you cannot scold him like this!#KKvMS#BabarAzampic.twitter.com/IUZppN025G
This is just not acceptable… Why is he blaming him like that , if bowlers are not bowling the right lengths… Wasim Akram shouldn’t behave badly with Babar Azam…. Hurts #KKvsMS#BabarAzampic.twitter.com/eGpahdFnos
On Wednesday at the Gaddafi Stadium, Kings won the toss and opted to bat first. After the early loss of Babar, Sharjeel Khan and Joe Clarke added 72 runs for the second wicket. The team managed to set a decent total of 174 runs.
But Multan’s skipper Mohammad Rizwan and Shan Masood’s partnership gave a strong start to the chase but by the time Shan (45 off 41) was dismissed by Mir Hamza in 15th over, the asking rate had climbed past 13 runs per over.
Rizwan (76 off 56) upped the game after Shan’s departure with five fours in a space of seven balls. But the skipper departed on Jordan’s counterattack.
It came down to 29 off the last 12 balls. Khushdil Shah played a series of sensational shots off Jordan as the experienced English bowler conceded 20 runs with Khushdil hitting two sixes and one four.
The match was finished by a magnificent strike by Rilee Rossouw over mid-wicket off the third ball of the final over bowled by Umaid as Sultans finished the match with three balls to spare. Sultans ended-up scoring 71 runs off the last 27 balls.
Meanwhile, it is pertinent to mention here that this is a new PSL record by Karachi Kings. They’ve lost nine consecutive matches in the league. Eight this year and one last year. This is the longest losing streak of any team in the PSL. The previous one was eight matches between two editions by Lahore Qalandars.
On the morning show hosted by Nida Yasir, actor and singer Hadiqa Kiani opened up on topics ranging from her professional life to her personal life. The Raqeeb Se diva also opened up about her failed marriage with Syed Fareed Sarwary, a UK-based Afghan businessman.
During the interview, the host asked Hadiqa Kiani about her former husband, how she met him, and the reason for her divorce. “It was a completely arranged marriage,” the singer responded. “He was a 3D animator and used to make my videos in the 90s.”
“He fell in love with me,” she added. “One of our mutual friends helped him in sending a marriage proposal to my house. My family accepted the proposal since they were already looking for a proposal for me.”
“The major obstacle in my marriage was his mother,” the singer continued. “She had a problem with my music. We lived together for five and a half years and after that, we parted ways.”
“The biggest mistake I made was that when I was engaged to him I was not happy and satisfied with it, but during this time period he attempted suicide by eating pills, which changed my mind about it,” Kiani recalled.
The Dobara star then revealed that she later married an Afghani man who lived in United Kingdom to give her child a surname and to complete his paperwork.
Last year she took to her Instagram handle and posted a long note in which she appreciated the government’s new policy related to allow children of single mothers eligible to acquire CNIC without father’s information.
In a ruling, the Sindh High Court (SHC) has ordered the National Database Registration Authority (NADRA) to issue Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC) to a woman who didn’t know about her father’s whereabouts.
The Zindagi Gulzar Hai singer stated: “Only Allah knows the hardships a single mother faces in our country. Today I have been sent so many clips from my conversation with Sameena Peerzada regarding only the surface of those hard realities but today our country has taken one step forward. I am so grateful to the courageous men and women who fought to make this change. Let’s continue on the right path, let’s make a stronger and safer Pakistan.”
Hadiqa adopted her son Naad-E-Ali in 2005 from Edhi Foundation, and has raised her child as a single mother.
Rapper Kanye West has revealed a few modifications that will appear in his Instagram postings in the future. He has discovered that using all capitalised characters, as he’s been doing, gives the impression that he’s yelling.
He also admitted that sharing screen grabs might be disconcerting for people affected.
On Tuesday, the 44-year-old apologised in a fresh Instagram post. The Grammy-winning rapper had spent the previous few days ranting about Pete Davidson despite his growing affair with Kim Kardashian, including forbidding the Saturday Night Live comic from visiting his children and labeling him a “d***head.” Today, Kanye erased all pictures from his Instagram account and posted a fresh post with a change of heart, seemingly realising the consequences of his actions.
“I’ve learned that using all caps makes people feel like I’m screaming at them,” he penned. He further wrote, “I’m working on my communication. I can benefit from a team of creative professionals, organizers, mobilizers and community leaders. Thank everybody for supporting me.” He continued: “I know sharing screen shots was jarring and came off as harassing Kim. I take accountability.” Kanye’s statement comes amid claims that Kim contacted him about his rants potentially placing Pete in “danger.” The rapper shared screenshots allegedly from ‘Kim’s other phone,’ in which the reality star stated that Kanye was ‘creating a dangerous and scary environment and someone will hurt Pete and this will be all your fault,’ as per The Sun.
Kanye has erased all but two of his Instagram postings since then: a montage of heartwarming photographs of Kim and their four children from Kim’s recent Vogue shoot, and the cover of his next album Donda 2.
Meanwhile Kanye has called it quits with actress Julia Fox on Monday, after a whirlwind six-week romance and also spent time with his children North, Saint, Chicago, and Psalm at Sunday Service and the Super Bowl.
Kim filed for divorce from Ye a year ago citing “irreconcilable differences.” The pair who share four children: North, Saint, Chicago, and Psalm remained fairly amicable as co-parents in the initial wake of the split. Months down the line, however, Ye began making a bunch of grand declarations in a bid to reconcile his and Kim’s relationship, which included asking her to “run right back” to him onstage at a concert in December.
Following his unsuccessful attempts to win her back, Ye has recently called Kim out with a series of public statements which started around the time she was first linked to Saturday Night Live’s Pete Davidson in late October. In fact, Ye first expressed his disapproval of Kim’s new relationship in an appearance on the Drink Champs podcast in November, where he continually insisted that she’s “still [his] wife” and claimed he’d “never even seen” any of their divorce papers.
Ye publicly dissed Pete by name for the first time that same month. In his song “Eazy,” Ye raps: “God saved me from this crash / Just so I could beat Pete Davidson’s ass.” He seemingly went on to suggest that Pete should “thank” him for letting him “have” Kim in a song released just last week, titled “City of Gods.”
Things only got messier after Ye publicly shared a message he’d received from Pete. “[That’s] a promise. How you guys [go about] raising your kids is [your business] and not mine,” the message continues.
“I do [hope one] day I can meet them and [we can] all be friends,” it finishes. Ye, shared a photo of Pete and Machine Gun Kelly in Calvin Klein underwear from a memorable Instagram livestream in December — wrote in the caption: “NO YOU WILL NEVER MEET MY CHILDREN.”
Ye then shared a handful of other posts aimed at Pete, calling him “garbage” and “trash.” He even rehashed a false rumor that Pete once sent late rapper Mac Miller intimate photos of himself and Ariana Grande, in a bid to prevent them from getting back together.
Quetta Gladiators’ left-arm pacer Sohail Tanvir has apologised for the offensive behaviour with Quetta’s batter Ben Cutting during the Peshawar Zalmi vs Quetta Gladiators in the ongoing Pakistan Super League (PSL) match at the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore on Tuesday.
In a video message posted on Instagram, Tanvir said: “This could have been avoided and what happened was not good,” he said, addressing the heated encounter between the two players last night.
Cutting punished Tanvir in the penultimate over as he smashed 27 runs by hitting four sixes, a single, and a double.
And then, Cutting showed an offensive hand gesture to Tanvir. This led to an argument between the two. The on-field umpire intervened and dispersed them.
But right in the next over, Naseem Shah bowled and Cutting smashed it but Tanvir was the third man, so he took the catch. After taking his catch, Tanvir also used the obscene hand gesture (showing his middle finger).
Shedding light on the history behind the aggression between the two players against each other, he said that this case has been going on since 2018.
It is pertinent to mention here that during the Caribbean Premier League (CPL), Tanvir had shown a finger gesture to Cutting after taking his wicket.
Tanvir, however, mentioned that he had apologised to Cutting back then.
“Last night, Cutting hit two sixes and showed the finger gesture,” he said, adding that then the two exchanged heated words and then “I also showed him the finger.”
Tanvir emphasised: “I repeat that this should not have happened, it could have been avoided.”
A popular Korean pop group, BTS will be going to perform in their home country, South Korea for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic started.
The tour, “Permission to Dance on Stage” which was previously postponed is now being kicked off by next month, March. The management company, BigHit announced the concert dates on their Twitter.
The group will perform at Olympic Stadium in Seoul on March 3,12, and 13, and fans will be able to watch live concerts online as well.
The company wrote on an online fan platform, Weverse, “We would like to thank all ARMY for patiently waiting for an in-person concert to be held in Korea.”
The management also released the teaser of the tour on their official channel. ARMY fandom is showing their love and support for their upcoming performances on the tour under the comment section of the video.
ARMY is an acronym of ‘Adorable Representative MC for Youth’.
BTS Group has achieved international fame by winning all three awards in which they were nominated in the American Music Awards 2021. The awards included are Favorite Pop Duo or Group, Favorite Pop Song for “Butter,” and Artist of the Year.
The group competed with Ariana Grande, Drake, Olivia Rodrigo, Taylor Swift, and The Weeknd in the category, Artist of the Year.
Recently, BTS member, V tested positive for covid and is currently undergoing treatment at home.
Other members RM, Jin, and Suga already recovered from covid in January.
