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  • Sadaf-Shahroz, Momal and Shahzad have a blast together at a family wedding

    Sadaf-Shahroz, Momal and Shahzad have a blast together at a family wedding

    Celebrity couple Shahroz Sabzwari and Sadaf Kanwal along with the sibling duo of Momal and Shahzad Sheikh shared their special moments from a family wedding on social media.

    The stars can be seen enjoying and dancing on the event in Karachi.

    Have a look at the pictures:

    Earlier, a video of Sadaf Kanwal surfaced in which she can be seen dancing at a relative’s bridal shower with her mother-in-law Safina Behroze in Karachi. The video has gone viral on social media. The duo was seen grooving on a Punjabi track, the video has been shared by the Hassad star Shahroz Sabzwari.

  • Self-proclaimed ‘icon of Karachi’ Aamir Liaquat ‘called to National Assembly’ after not meeting Khan

    Self-proclaimed ‘icon of Karachi’ Aamir Liaquat ‘called to National Assembly’ after not meeting Khan

    Former television host Amir Liaqat took to Twitter to reclaim his grievances against Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan.

    Liaquat tweeted, “PM met every member but not have a time for the ICON of Karachi, the man who got a seat for PTI from the most crucial constituency, defeated my old senior college [colleague], Farooq Sattar.”

    “I have defended PM and First Lady (Bhabhj) every time but he have no time, it is ok?” tweeted Liaquat.

    Making an appearance at the National Assembly (NA) this morning, Liaquat while talking to Journalist Azaz Syed said, “I have not come on my own, I was especially called to NA.”

    On October 4, Liaquat resigned from Pakistan Tehreek Insaf (PTI).

    “Resigned from the National Assembly. May Allah Almighty support Imran Khan and PTI. Good-Bye,” Liaquat said in a tweet.

  • Shahid Afridi reportedly to play for Quetta Gladiators in PSL 2022

    Shahid Afridi reportedly to play for Quetta Gladiators in PSL 2022

    Pakistan’s former captain Shahid Afridi will reportedly be playing for Pakistan Super League’s (PSL) franchise Quetta Gladiators. Nadeem Omar, who is the owner of the Quetta Gladiators, had confirmed the same.

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    Earlier in June, Afridi, who has played for Omar’s Galle Gladiators in Sri Lanka Premier League (SPL), had himself stated that he would like to be a part of the Quetta Gladiators franchise in his last PSL season in 2022. And, this news was even confirmed by Azam Khan, who is the manager of the Quetta Gladiators.

    “If the franchise [Multan Sultans] releases me, I will prefer to represent the Quetta Gladiators in my last season,” Afridi had said in an interview. You can also see a tweet about Shahid Afridi playing for the Quetta Gladiators below.

    The player draft for the 2022 season of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) will take place in the second week of December. But then, the manager of the Multan Sultans and COO, Haider Azhar has revealed that Afridi being released by the franchise has not been confirmed as of now.

    Afridi has played 50 matches in the PSL and has scalped 44 wickets. With the bat, Afridi has smashed 465 runs in his PSL career. He has played with Multan Sultans in the last season and spent two seasons at Peshawar Zalmi and one at Karachi Kings. If he shifts to Gladiators, it will be his fourth team in the league.

  • President Arif Alvi, actor Riz Ahmed hit out at Akshay Kumar’s ‘Sooryavanshi’ for Islamophobic content

    Journalist Rana Ayyub highlighted the ‘Islamophobic’ elements in Bollywood’s Sooryavanshi in her article for Washington post. The acclaimed journalist tweeted about the same, reinstating that, “yet another exercise in criminal Islamophobia that seeks to normalise Narendra Modi’s anti-Muslim agenda. She claimed that it “feeds into the Muslim as terrorist narrative.”

    Starring Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif in the lead, it also features Ranveer Singh and Ajay Devgn. The film has already raked in over INR 150 crores at the Box-office.

    Pakistan’s President Arif Alvi expressed his disappointment on the same.

    He added, “The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, destroy its history.”

    Hollywood actor Rizwan Ahmed who recently shunned Hollywood for stereotyping Muslims, used the ‘disgusted’ emoji for the film.

    Earlier, Riz called out English films for their misrepresentation of Muslims, “The game right now is messed up. The game right now is rigged,” Ahmed said in a new interview with news outlet Muslim. “Muslims are either not on screen or they are [and] they’re the bad guys. They’re perpetrators or victims of violence. We’re either invisible or we’re villainized, cause the stories we tell about our community affect the laws that get passed, the people that get attacked, the people that get invaded.”

  • Mohammad Rizwan praises young boy for making an ‘incredible’ sketch

    Mohammad Rizwan praises young boy for making an ‘incredible’ sketch

    Pakistan’s wicket keeper-batter Mohammad Rizwan has praised a boy from Gilgit Baltistan who made a sketch of him. While sharing the sketch on his own Instagram, the cricketer said that it is “incredible”.

    “Farhan Ali Macholvi, this is incredible. Thank you so much for your love & support. You are the pride of our Gilgit-Baltistan,” he wrote.

    The cricketer further said that the children are the assets of this nation and they will make Pakistan strong.

    “I strongly believe that our real assets are children. They will build a strong Pakistan. May you keep doing what you love.”

    The sketch shows Rizwan in the team’s green jersey, waving at fans, as he walks by with a bat tucked under his arm, helmet in hand.

    The 29-year-old cricketer won hearts of Pakistani fans with his prolific performance at the T20 World Cup 2021. He scored 281 runs in his six innings at the tournament while scoring a half century in his first ICC semi-final of his career.

    Rizwan became the first player in the history of the game to score 1,000 T20I runs in a calendar year.

  • Joint session of Parliament today, govt confident about getting bills passed

    The government appears confident of getting all its bills passed in the much-awaited joint session of Parliament on Wednesday (today).

    The joint session has been summoned by President Arif Alvi today at 12pm.

    The government is looking forward to passing more than two dozen bills including the ones on electoral reforms and National Accountability Bureau (NAB) ordinances.

    In response, the joint Opposition will resist the government and stop it from legislating what they call “black laws”.

    According to party position, the number of Opposition members in the 440-member joint house comes to 219 against 221 treasury members.

    It may be recalled that the government had previously postponed the joint sitting after its allies, the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement- Pakistan (MQM-P), expressed their reservations over the proposed electoral reforms bills regarding the use of the electronic voting machine (EVM) and the introduction of i-voting for overseas Pakistanis in the next election.

  • Former CJ’s son throws father under the bus, makes shocking revelations

    Former CJ’s son throws father under the bus, makes shocking revelations

    Allegations against the Former Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Saqib Nisar by Former Chief Justice (CJ) of Gilgit-Baltistan Justice (retd) Rana Shamim regarding Nisar’s direction to a high court judge not to release Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz on bail at any cost before the 2018 general elections surfaced on November 15.

     Rana Mohammad Shamim’s son and Supreme Court advocate Ahmed Hassan Rana appeared in Geo News programme, ‘Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Sath’ last night to discuss the allegations as his father’s son and lawyer.

    In a truly bizarre interview, Advocate Rana refused to answer any questions on his father’s behalf saying that he himself was serving as the Punjab assistant advocate general at the time of Nawaz’s arrest in 2018 and also met the PML-N leader in jail.

    While describing his relation with his father, Rana said he has to go play snooker at 10 pm, and his wife will ask for permission on his behalf at 09:45 pm from his father. He also questioned the host, asking if Shahzeb has to take permission from his father if he has to go out late at night. To which the anchor said no, he does not ask for permission from his father.

    He continued by adding that “I expressed my anger to my father when he asked me how I would take a date for a hearing”. Shahzeb further asked Rana if he asked his father about the affidavit, to which he said, “Aap mujhe aur sharminda krne chahte hain?” [Do you want to embarrass me further?] adding that I will only speak on what has been told to me by father. He then called his father on live television, asking if his father wanted to comment, to which his father replied, “No comments”.

    Shahzeb asked Rana if he knows when his father last met Nawaz Sharif. To which Rana said he did not even know about the affidavit. However, he said that as per his knowledge, his father went to England before the Covid-19 pandemic began and thats when his father met Nawaz Sharif, adding that his father had direct contact with Nawaz.He also said that his father has served as a lawyer of the Former Prime Minister in the past. Rana, during the show, mentioned several times that his father and Nawaz Sharif were friends.

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    Shahzeb further asked why his father stayed quiet for four years and only spoke three days before the hearing of Maryam Nawaz Sharif and if it was because he wants Nawaz Sharif to get relief, considering his personal relationship with Nawaz. Rana did not give any clear answer to the question.

    Rana also read a text he received from his father during the show, which read, “According to my knowledge the affidavit statement was never handed over to any journalist, it may have leaked from notary public office.”

    He also added, that his father would appear before the IHC on November 26.

  • ‘Shouted slogans, threw stones, and set fire’: Muslim ex-FM home attacked in India

    ‘Shouted slogans, threw stones, and set fire’: Muslim ex-FM home attacked in India

    Hindu extremists have attacked and set fire to the home of a former Indian foreign minister (FM), police say, in the latest incident of religious violence. Critics say religious violence has increased under Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi, reports Al-Jazeera.

    Salman Khurshid, a Muslim from the Opposition Congress party, published a book in which he compared the kind of Hindu nationalism that has grown under Modi to “extremist groups” such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS).

    A mob of about 20 people from an extremist local Hindu group massed outside Khurshid’s house near the northern city of Nainital on Monday.

    “They shouted slogans, threw stones, broke several windows, ransacked [the entry] and set fire [to a door],” said a local police chief Jagdish Chandra.

    Khurshid posted images of the aftermath of the attack on social media, and wrote, “Shame is too ineffective a word.”

    “I hoped to open these doors to my friends who have left this calling card. Am I still wrong to say this cannot be Hinduism?” he added.

    Activists say that religious minorities in Hindu-majority India have faced increased levels of discrimination and violence since Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in 2014.

  • ‘Don’t like him at all, lacks tameez and acting skills’: Hira Tareen blasts Yasir Hussain

    ‘Don’t like him at all, lacks tameez and acting skills’: Hira Tareen blasts Yasir Hussain

    Celebrity couple Ali Safina and Hira Tareen, who tied the knot back in 2013, made an appearance on Time Out on Ahsan Khan.

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    The Khaas star declared her dislikeness for actor and writer Yasir Hussain.

    On being asked about a celebrity who’s acting skills she doesn’t like, Ali answered for his wife and took Mahira Khan’s name. However Hira was quick to add that no, its actually a male celebrity whom she dislikes.

    She mentioned that she doesn’t like Yasir’s acting skills at all, adding that he lacks basic manners (tameez), “Its about how you talk to people”.

    The Jhooti actor recently shared a post and added a note that he will leak the movies on cable if they are not released in cinemas anytime soon. 

    Speaking of the digital era, the duo strongly believe that social media is starting to have a strong impact on the industry. “There will come a time when our actors will be girls who’ve risen on TikTok or other social media apps,” Safina said.

    Tareen thought that time is already here and Hania Aamir is a strong example of this.”

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    The Qaraar star shared, “There was that shooting that happened at the production house in which a security guard opened fire on our engineer and seven others were injured as well. That was all over the news. A lack of security, late payments and dishonesty. No target oriented work which would mean that if you reach a certain target, this is the level you’ll achieve or be promoted. Actors or artists are investing their own money into social media. They’re getting their own pictures taken, putting in their own efforts to get them published and posted. If I put in this much effort in any other industry, I’d reach such heights in my career.”

  • ‘The problem I have with Shahid [Afridi]…’, Shoaib Akhtar tells all

    ‘The problem I have with Shahid [Afridi]…’, Shoaib Akhtar tells all

    In a video posted by Shoaib Akhtar on Twitter, he revealed the problems he has with Boom Boom Shahid Afridi.

    Narrating his lists of problems, Akhtar said, “The only problem I have with Shahid is, he is way better looking than I am.”

    https://twitter.com/shoaib100mph/status/1460570177213550592?s=21

    “He hits the ball far better than I can, the problem is he is more famous than I am,” added Akhtar.

    Akhtar further said, “Another biggest problem I have with him [Shahid], is his hair. He has more hair than I have.”

    On Tuesday, Shahid Afridi thanked Shoaib Akhtar and said that he liked the “lot of truth” that Shoaib had spoken about in one of their recent meet-ups.

    Afridi said he was pleased to see Akhtar and complimented him for looking “fit” as he retweeted a tweet by Akhtar.

    “Buhut Shukria Shoaibi! Aapke moun se itna sara sach buhut acha laga. And great to see you, my friend, you look fit hope your knees continue to support you,” wrote Afridi.

    Akhtar’s post, retweeted by Afridi, was a video that the fast bowler had shared earlier on Tuesday.