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  • Pakistan to send coronavirus relief assistance to Palestine

    Pakistan to send coronavirus relief assistance to Palestine

    Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said on Tuesday that Pakistan would send coronavirus and medical emergency relief assistance to Palestine on humanitarian grounds.

    This decision was taken during the cabinet meeting held on Tuesday. Fawad said the cabinet thoroughly discussed the prevailing situation in Palestine and expressed indignation over the unfortunate situation of Palestinians.

    “Pakistan was the first country that took a strong, clear, and unflinching stance on Palestine,” said Chaudhry.

    Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi went on an official visit to Turkey, where he held a meeting with his Turkish counterpart on the Palestine issue.

    Foreign ministers of different Islamic countries including Pakistan, Turkey, Sudan, and Palestine will leave for New York in a group form to attend the special session of the United Nations General Assembly on Palestine, he said.

  • Mahira Khan urges Shireen Mazari to protect minorities, ‘lead by example’

    Mahira Khan urges Shireen Mazari to protect minorities, ‘lead by example’

    Mahira Khan has urged Federal Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari to “lead by example” and look into giving protection to minorities after a 200-strong mob attacked a Christian family in Okara.

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    The actor tagging Mazari in a tweet wrote: “Dear Shireen Mazari, your attention needed here please. We need to lead by example.”

    According to reports, Christian boys were beaten in a Muslim-majority village in the Okara district of Punjab following which a mob of villagers attacked the Christian community in the area.

    Father Khalid Mukhtar, parish priest of St. Thomas Catholic Church in Chak 5 said the attack was sparked following an attack on Catholic youngsters on May 14.

    “The boys were cleaning the church when one of the Muslim landlords, passing by the church, accused them of throwing dust on him. They attacked the boys and then raided 15 houses of our community the next day,” said the priest.

    Mangta Masih, a labourer lost his thumb when the mob attacked his house.

    “We hid our women inside while they tried to break in,” said Masih. “One of them grabbed me from behind and another struck with a sickle blade. I tried to prevent the blow with my right hand. I fell down and they kept beating us with batons.”

    He further shared that the attackers were “armed with glass bottles, stones, axes, batons and bricks”.

    “Others used stairs to climb to our roofs and started breaking our furniture. We pleaded to spare the women but the attack continued for half an hour,” said Masih.

    Another woman who was wounded in the attack said that the mob “broke the locks, grabbed our hair and pulled us out one by one”.

    “Young girls were assaulted and left with torn clothes,” said the woman, detailing the horror. Christian activists have been sharing disturbing footage of the attack on social media.

    Following the attacks, Father Mukhtar conducted a meeting of parish committee members on May 16 at St. Thomas Church, gathered statements of the injured and filed a complaint at the local police station.

    The local deputy superintendent of police visited the site and assured locals that a first information report (FIR) would be registered against the assailants under Section 452 (house trespass after preparation for hurt, assault or wrongful restraint) of the Pakistan Penal Code.

    Meanwhile, Osman Khalid Butt also urged the Federal Minister to take notice and protect religious minorities in the country.

  • ‘We will continue to remain part of PTI,’ says Tareen

    ‘We will continue to remain part of PTI,’ says Tareen

    Disgruntled Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Jahangir Tareen on Wednesday denied reports that he was forming a forward bloc in the party.

    “We were part of the PTI, and we will continue to remain part of the PTI,” Tareen announced outside the banking court where he had appeared for a hearing. He said that the like-minded group was established three months ago.

    Tareen said that his supporters had decided to form a separate group after the Punjab government initiated “revenge actions” against them.

    Tareen said his ‘supporters’ were standing with him as far as, what he referred to as the “fake” FIR lodged against Tareen. The pro-Tareen group had met the prime minister recently.

    On Tuesday night, Jahangir Khan Tareen hosted a dinner at his residence and announced a ‘group of like-minded people’. The newly formed group has appointed PTI’s Raja Riaz as Parliamentary Leader in the National Assembly while PML-N’s Saeed Akbar Nawani will lead in the Punjab Assembly.

  • VIDEO: Car catches fire after driver uses hand sanitizer while smoking

    A car burst into flames in Maryland after a driver used hand sanitizer while smoking a cigarette.

    According to officials, the fire was caused by the “driver using hand sanitizer and smoking a cigarette,” which he cites as a “bad combo in an unventilated area like a car.” 

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    The car is badly damaged and cannot be recovered, Fire control officials took the driver to a nearby hospital for treatment of minor burns and injuries. 

  • Bill Gates admits affair with Microsoft employee

    Bill Gates admits affair with Microsoft employee

    Bill Gates has admitted via a spokeswoman that he had an extramarital affair 20 years ago with a Microsoft employee that was investigated by Microsoft.

    According to details, the affair ended ‘amicably’ and is not connected to his decision to step down from the company’s board.

    The company’s board did an investigation into the affair after a female employee sent a letter in 2019 alleging that she and Gates had a ‘sexual relationship’ over the years.

    “Microsoft received a concern in the latter half of 2019 that Bill Gates sought to initiate an intimate relationship with a company employee in the year 2000,” Shaw said in an emailed statement.

    “A committee of the Board reviewed the concern, aided by an outside law firm to conduct a thorough investigation. Throughout the investigation, Microsoft provided extensive support to the employee who raised the concern.”

    It is not clear what role the investigation or the affair played in the decision of Gates and his wife, Melinda French Gates divorce after 27 years of marriage. The couple announced their divorce earlier this month.

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    In a divorce filing that day, French Gates called the marriage “irretrievably broken.”

    French Gates’s divorce lawyer, Robert Cohen, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    Gates is ranked as the fourth on the list of the world’s wealthiest people. Forbes estimates Gates’s net worth at $128.3 billion.

  • ‘PTI is Imran Khan’: PTI reacts to Jahangir Tareen’s new political group

    On Tuesday night, Jahangir Khan Tareen hosted a dinner at his residence and announced a ‘group of like-minded people’. The newly formed group has appointed PTI’s Raja Riaz as Parliamentary Leader in the National Assembly while PML-N’s Saeed Akbar Nawani will lead in the Punjab Assembly.

    PTI’s Nazir Chohan has claimed that the new JKT party has eight members of the National Assembly and 32 members of the Provincial assembly with them. However, the names of the members of the ‘like-minded’ group are yet to be revealed.

    He further added that the whole group will resign if any of their members are disqualified.

    A few hours after the news broke, Prime Minister Imran Khan’s close aide, Senator Faisal Javed Khan in a tweet wrote, “Imran Khan is PTI and PTI is Imran Khan,” which started speculation on social media that the tweet referred to the official breakup between JKT and PM Khan and the signalling of a new party.

    Following the sugar inquiry commission report last year, the friendship between Jahangir Khan Tareen (JKT) and Imran Khan ended with JKT leaving for London and returning with rumours that he was leaving the party.

  • Ghana Ali ties the knot

    Actor and model Ghana Ali has officially tied the knot.

    Ali, known for her roles in Rangreza and Saraab, announced the news on social media, sharing pictures from her intimate Nikkah ceremony. However, she did not reveal details about her husband.

    The bride looked radiant in a silver grey outfit with smokey eyes.

    Earlier, Ali had shared a picture of herself getting her mehndi done.

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  • ‘Here is to forever’: Minal Khan, Ahsan Mohsin announce baat paki

    ‘Here is to forever’: Minal Khan, Ahsan Mohsin announce baat paki

    After months of teasing fans with loved-up pictures and a secret engagement, Minal Khan and Ahsan Mohsin Ikram have finally made things official, sharing pictures from their baat paki on social media.

    Announcing the news on social media, Minal said: “Here is to forever. To the love of my life, you’re the easiest yes I’ve ever said!”

    Similarly, Ahsan wrote: “Here is to forever. I promise to love you till my last breath!”

    While Minal wore a pink floral dress for the occasion, Ahsan donned a simple black shalwar kameez complementing Minal’s outfit.

    Ahsan and Minal had officially confirmed their relationship on Minal’s birthday in November 2020 with a picture that received immense backlash on social media.

  • Amitabh Bachchan’s office gets flooded as Cyclone Tauktae hits Mumbai

    Amitabh Bachchan’s office gets flooded as Cyclone Tauktae hits Mumbai

    Amitabh Bachchan’s office in Mumbai was flooded after Cyclone Tauktae hit India’s coastal city on Monday.

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    The Bollywood superstar shared the news with his fans through his blog, in which he wrote that his office, Janak, was flooded after the storm and heavy rains and that the “sheds and shelters for some staff” were “blown away”.

    “There is an eerie silence in the midst of the cyclone,” wrote the actor in his blog. “The pounding and the lashing rains all day. Trees fell, leakages all over, flooding in the vulnerable Janak office. Impromptu plastic cover sheets still in prep for the heavy monsoon rain, ripped apart. Sheds and shelters for some staff blown away.”

    Bachchan also praised his staff for rushing to rescue the situation, calling them “simply amazing in such conditions.”

    The actor said that he thanked them for working in the trickling downpour by offering them clothes from his closet, as a result of which they are now moving “proudly as Chelsea and Jaipur Pink Panther supporters”.

    Earlier, Bachchan has also extended prayers for everyone be safe and protected during the cyclone.