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  • PM Imran shares picture with Batman cap

    PM Imran shares picture with Batman cap

    Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday shared a throwback picture from 1989 in which he is wearing a Batman cap.

    The premier shared a photo from almost 32 years ago on his official Instagram account with the caption, “Skardu 1989.”

    The picture prompted followers to express how cool the former cricketer looked in the cap.

    This is not the first time PM Khan has shared a picture from his archives. Earlier, he posted a picture from 1971 while he was on a tour in England.

    Read More: PM Khan remembers his past in unseen photos

    Prime Minister Imran Khan is the most-followed politician on social media in the country with 14.2 million followers on Twitter, 11 million on Facebook, and 5.4 million on Instagram.

  • Aiman, Muneeb host a lavish bash for daughter Amal’s second birthday, Minal cheers

    Aiman, Muneeb host a lavish bash for daughter Amal’s second birthday, Minal cheers

    Aiman Khan and Muneeb Butt’s daughter Amal Muneeb ringed in her second birthday with her extended family. The Khan-Butt clan enjoyed to their fullest in an intimate celebration.

    The Baandhi duo can bee seen cutting multiple cakes with their daughter.

    While Minal Khan was also spotted celebrating her niece’s big day.

    The Ishq Tamasha star took to her Instagram to share the décor.

    Aiman also shared a picture of Amal with her Nana.

    Amal’s maternal grandmother also wished her grand daughter while sharing some pictures on Instagram.

  • Video: Sadia Khan stuns with sensual dance moves on Kareena Kapoor’s ‘Bebo’ in Nathia Gali

    Video: Sadia Khan stuns with sensual dance moves on Kareena Kapoor’s ‘Bebo’ in Nathia Gali

    Khuda Aur Muhabbat star Sadia Khan recently shared an instagram reel in which she can be seen dancing sensually on Kareen Kapoor’s chartbuster song, Bebo Mein Bebo.

    Bebo Full Song With Lyrics Kambakkht Ishq Akshay Kumar Kareena Kapoor - YouTube

    In 2016, the talented actor was invited to India for a film project opposite Akshay Kumar but the film never got made due to the political turmoil between the two nations.

    Sadia Khan to star opposite Akshay Kumar?

  • ‘I have been sexually harassed’: Anoushey Ashraf opens up

    In a recent interview with Express Tribune Anoushey Ashraf has opened up on sexual harassment in Pakistani entertainment industry and society in general.

    The Saanp Seehri actor said, “We were also less vulnerable. However, women around us, who came from relatively less privileged households, were regularly molested, propositioned, given lesser money and odd jobs,” recalled the celebrity.

    The #MeToo movement enlightened her on plight of women in the entertainment industry.

    On a personal front, the Sehra Mein Safar diva mentioned, “I didn’t know until I saw Pakistani women come out with their stories of abuse and harassment. That’s when I thought, ‘ye tou meray sath bhi hua hai! Even I have been sexually harassed as a child.”

    “There is a new story every day now. Even the Minaar e Pakistan video heightened my anxiety,” she recollected. “And social media shoves things down your throat, so when they were ripping her clothes off I felt like I was being touched and violated. You have to be a woman to understand what that feels like,” she concluded.

  • Female Afghan presenter who interviewed Taliban leader flees the country

    Beheshta Arghand, a female news presenter at TOLO News, has left Afghanistan according to CNN.

    “If the Taliban do what they said – what they promise – and the situation becomes better, and I know I am safe and there is no threat for me, I will go back to my country and I will work for my country. For my people,” she said while speaking to CNN.

    Talking about her experience of interviewing Taliban spokesperson, Arghand added that the interview was difficult, “but I did it for Afghan women.”

    “I told myself, ‘One of us must start…If we stay in our houses or don’t go to our offices, they will say the ladies don’t want to work,’ but I said to myself, ‘Start working,’” Arghand said.

    “And I said to the Taliban member, ‘We want our rights. We want to work. We want — we must —be in society. This is our right.’”

    On August 17, Arghand sat down with senior Taliban representative Mawlawi Abdulhaq Hemad. During the interview she talked about the Taliban’s home searches in Kabul and the general situation on the ground.

  • Nawaz Sharif modifies milli naghma to make a point against establishment

    Nawaz Sharif modifies milli naghma to make a point against establishment

    At the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) jalsa in Karachi on Sunday, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif blamed “a few hundred thousand” of hijacking the country’s democratic system. Sharif was addressing the PDM jalsa from London via video link.

    Nawaz vowed he would not stay silent anymore.

    Reciting a few lines from the milli naghma (national song) ‘Yeh watan tumhara hai’, Nawaz Sharif changed a few lines to: “Yeh watan tumhara hai, hum hain khawamkhah iss mein [This country is yours and we are living in it for no reason].”

    “Ai chand lakh logo, yeh watan tumhara hai, baaqi 21 crore hain khawamkhah iss mein [Dear few lakh people, this country is yours, the rest of the 21 crore people are living here for no reason],” further added Nawaz.

    “It’s a crime to stay silent under the current circumstances,” said Nawaz.

    “A few generals and elite of the society have made this democratic system a hostage. We remained silent when the elected prime minister was thrown out. We stayed silent when votes were snatched and blue-eyed people were imposed over the country to rule. We stayed silent when honest and God-fearing judges were implicated in false cases,” said Nawaz.

    The PML-N leader said, “We stayed silent when the RTS [results transmission system] collapsed [in 2018 elections] and we stayed silent when the country’s poor segment of society was deprived of food. Now you have to decide that whether you want to stand with those who are suffering and scared or with those who raise their voice against injustice.”

  • Saudi woman develops game to help diagnose anxiety

    Rasha al Qahtani, an 18-year-old Saudi Arabian girl, has created a technique that can be used to detect generalised anxiety disorder in adolescents using video games.

    “I tried to heal myself, by myself, almost all of the time,” she says. “In Saudi Arabia, we are starting now to connect the dots and to raise awareness about mental health. Going to a psychologist does still have a negative effect on a person in society,” she said while talking to Smithsonian Magazine.

    Qahtani came in third place in the behavioural and social sciences category of the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair for her prototype, which was inspired by her personal experience and as a means of helping her peers who are struggling with anxiety.

    Her prototype tries to address the issues of stigma and inaccessibility that, according to psychologists, are significant barriers to youth seeking mental health treatment.

  • Eight Googling tips you probably don’t know

    Eight Googling tips you probably don’t know

    We frequently use Google at work and home for research but most of us don’t know how to optimise our Google search.

    A Twitter user shared a few tips that can make our search easy, more precise, and can save time.

    Chris Hladczuk shared a few short keys for Google search. Here are some key tips:

    Quotation marks

    – Dashes

    ~ Tilde

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    .. Two Periods

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  • Poster revealed of Yasir, Ayesha starrer ‘Javed Iqbal’, Mansha and Mathira cheer

    Poster revealed of Yasir, Ayesha starrer ‘Javed Iqbal’, Mansha and Mathira cheer

    Actor Yasir Hussain took to his Instagram account to share the poster of his upcoming movie, Javed Iqbal.

    The Baandhi star recieved an overwhelming response from fellow celebrities:

    Bulbulay diva Ayesha Omar, will also be seen alongside with Yasir in the biopic after their successful film, Karachi Se Lahore. The Untold Story of a Serial Killer: Javed Iqbal has been written and directed by Abu Aleeha.

    The Jhooti actor will be essaying the role of the Serial Killer while the Zindagi Gulzar Hai diva will be playing the role of a cop.

  • ‘Pakistan moving forward in criminalising enforced disappearances’: Shireen Mazari

    Minister for Human Rights Dr Shireen Mazari on Monday said that Pakistan was “moving forward” in its commitment to criminalise enforced disappearances, and emphasised that such acts did not have a place in a democracy.

    As the world celebrates International Day of the Disappeared on August 30, Dr Mazari tweeted that the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Interior approved a bill on enforced disappearances last week.

    “Sadly, time [was] lost because no previous government moved on enforced disappearances,” said Mazari.

    “In our first meeting at the Ministry of Human Rights, we had the then PPP chair of the Senate human rights committee participate. Once introduced in NA it was available on NA website so to say no one knew the content is absurd. No one objected on the floor of the NA or in the committee,” she said.

    She also said that Prime Minister Imran Khan had met Baloch families of “disappeared” persons who provided details about their missing family members. “Some have returned home while others are being traced,” the minister said.

    The minister also hit out at former governments for their lack of response on the issue. “[I] can’t recall any PML-N or PPP prime minister in the last two governments even recognising enforced disappearances, let alone meeting with these families.”