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  • Rain on its way to Karachi

    Rain on its way to Karachi

    The Meteorological Department has shared that strong monsoon winds will likely enter Sindh on the night of July 28.

    From July 28 to July 30, rain with thunder is expected in various cities of Sindh, Tharparkar, Umarkot, Badin, Sajawal and other places of Sindh.

    There is a possibility of rain in Karachi, Sukkur, Larkana, Jacobabad and other places from July 29 to 30, while the temperature may increase in Karachi on Sunday and Monday, likely to reach 34 to 36 degrees celsius.

    As per the predictions of weather department, it will be partly cloudy and humid in Karachi on Sunday while there is a possibility of drizzle and light rain in the city tomorrow evening or night.

    From Monday to Tuesday, Karachi will experience thunder and heavy rain in some pockets.

    Today the city is expected to remain cloudy, reports Geo.

    In the last 24 hours, the city’s minimum temperature was recorded at 29.4 degrees Celsius, while the maximum temperature is expected to be between 33 and 35 degrees Celsius.

    Humidity in the air is 82 percent and the sea breeze is blowing at a speed of 11 km per hour.

  • Cambridge International Education takes action after A-Level maths paper leaked in Pakistan

    Cambridge International Education takes action after A-Level maths paper leaked in Pakistan

    Cambridge International Education UK has issued a report regarding the leakage of the A-Level Mathematics paper in Pakistan.

    The paper was reportedly leaked on May 2, and a majority of students in the country had access to it before the exam.

    Cambridge has decided not to award marks for the leaked mathematics exam. Instead, students will receive grades based on their performance in the remaining exams.

    Furthermore, the report specifies that marks will be allocated equitably to all students, ensuring fairness. Students who wish to retake the exam will have the opportunity to do so in November without having to pay a re-examination fee.

  • CTD operations in different cities lead to arrest of 38 terrorists

    CTD operations in different cities lead to arrest of 38 terrorists

    The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) Punjab has arrested 38 terrorists in various operations across different cities of the province this month.

    According to a CTD spokesperson, the 38 terrorists were apprehended in 449 intelligence-based operations conducted by CTD in various cities of Punjab this month.

    During this period, a trained terrorist affiliated with the banned TTP was also reportedly arrested in Lodhran and a main commander of Daesh was captured in Bahawalpur.

    Operations were also carried out in Lahore, Rahim Yar Khan, Narowal, Rawalpindi, and Multan.

    Intelligence-based operations were conducted in Jhang, Sargodha, Khanewal, Wahari, Bahawalpur, Lodhran, and Bahawalnagar resulted in the recovery of explosive materials, hand grenades, weapons, mobile phones, and cash from the terrorists.

    The spokesperson further disclosed that the arrested terrorists were planning attacks on law enforcement agencies and important installations.

  • Woman gang-raped in front of family while police argued over jurisdiction

    Woman gang-raped in front of family while police argued over jurisdiction

    A woman was allegedly gang-raped in front of her husband and three-year-old daughter in district Hafizabad of Punjab while police argued over jurisdiction.

    Dawn reports that robbers took the woman on gunpoint to nearby fields and sexually assaulted her in front of her husband and daughter.

    Originally a resident of Chiniot, the family was reportedly going back to the city via motorcycle after meeting a relative when it was stopped by three robbers near Sukheke around 11:30 pm, Dawn has reported.

    Arguing over jurisdiction

    Reports say that instead of helping the victim family, police officials of the Hafizabad and Nankana Sahib clashed over jurisdiction, a violation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) issued in the wake of the Lahore-Sialkot motorway gang-rape incident [2020] to respond to sexual assaults on women.

    For an hour or so, the victim and her family remained unattended while the gangsters fled the spot.

    The incident was reported to 15 Nankana police, who then diverted the call to the Hafizabad police, claiming that it was not their jurisdiction.

    The Hafizabad police sent a team to the crime scene and, after a brief investigation, announced that the crime spot is in the jurisdiction of Nankana police.

    An official told Dawn that DPO Hafizabad directed the police to reach the spot and lodge a case.

    Sukheke police registered a rape case against the unknown suspects and took into custody a suspected robber, recovering from his custody two pistols.
    Later, the police of both districts again entered into yet another dispute over jurisdiction.

    Nankana police again rejected the claim that the incident took place in their area. The matter remained under discussion all day on Thursday, bringing the investigation to a halt. To establish jurisdiction rights, Hafizabad police took a tehsildar and staff from the Board of Revenue to the crime scene.

    Hafizabad DPO Faisal Gulzar asserted that even though the incident took place in Nankana Sahib, he ordered an FIR be registered in his district’s police station.

    “We arrested one of the three criminals who looted the family and raped the woman”, he told Dawn, adding that during the investigation, the arrested suspect told the police that his accomplices fled towards Rawalpindi.

    A team has been sent to trace the other men and investigate the incident.

    The DPO also claimed that the woman was raped by one criminal.

  • Cleric arrested after video of his barbaric assault on student goes viral

    Cleric arrested after video of his barbaric assault on student goes viral

    A video of a cleric mercilessly beating up a student in a Faisalabad seminary went viral on social media leading to Thikriwala police arresting the man.

    Qari Rizwan Liaqat of Saifabad locality of Faisalabad has also been accused of threatening the child’s father after he complained.

    Rashid Bashir stated in his first information report that Qari Rizwan had severely beaten his 14-year-old son Saqlain at Jamia Ghousia Rizwia.
    Dawn reported that Iqbal Division SP Imran Munir Saifi visited the victim’s house and assured the father of justice for his son.

  • Vlogger known as ‘most beautiful biker of Russia’ dies in a motorcycle accident

    Vlogger known as ‘most beautiful biker of Russia’ dies in a motorcycle accident

    Tatyana Ozolina, called the most beautiful biker in Russia, died in a motorcycle accident in Turkey.

    The 38-year-old travel vlogger from Russia, known to her fans as Moto Tanya, gained fame for travelling worldwide on a motorcycle. While travelling in Turkey’s Mugla province, her red BMW motorcycle collided with a truck and she died on the spot.

    According to reports, the accident was so severe that she died before the medical team arrived. His co-rider, Onor Obit, survived the crash but is in critical condition, while a third rider with remained unharmed.

    According to ‘The Sun,’ the accident was caused by a mistake by another motorcyclist in her group, forcing her to brake suddenly and lose control of the bike.

    Due to the accident, she suffered severe head injuries and died before the ambulance arrived. She was the mother of a 13-year-old son.

  • Prince William’s salary for 2023 revealed

    Prince William’s salary for 2023 revealed

    Different media sources have revealed Britain’s future King, Prince William’s salary. They claim that the British royal earned a whopping $31 million in the year 2023 in his new role as the owner of the Duchy of Cornwall estate, which he inherited when King Charles III became the monarch.

    An Annual Integrated Report published by the Duchy of Cornwall shows a distributable surplus of £23.6 million ($30.4 million) for the last financial year 2023-2024.

    This amount covers the official, charitable and private expenses of Prince William, Kate Middleton and their three children.

    Prince William is a working member of the royal family who doesn’t receive a traditional income. So, his annual expenses are largely covered by the Duchy of Cornwall, an estate established by King Edward III in 1337 to provide funds for the heir to the throne.

    The estate is worth over $1 billion, spans 130,000 acres across 23 counties in England and Wales and includes land, farms, houses and other assets to support the heir and his family.

    However, the Prince pays income tax on all his earnings from the estate after subtracting household expenses, which have not been specified.
    When King Charles acceded to the throne in 2022, Prince William became the new Duke of Cornwall and head of the estate.

  • Man kills five-year-old son of woman he wanted to marry

    Man kills five-year-old son of woman he wanted to marry

    A young man claiming to be in love with a married woman kidnapped and killed the woman’s five-year-old son in the suburbs of Sargodha.

    A police report reveals that the suspects kept sending messages to the woman’s husband through an anonymous phone saying, “If you want the child back, divorce your wife,” even though he had murdered the child by then.

    However, the police have arrested the suspect after about nine months.

    Five-year-old Shahzeb’s father, Rehman Ali, worked as a labourer while the mother was allegedly romantically involved with the suspect Mukarram.

    Police investigations reveal that the mother of the five-year-old had an extra-marital affair with Mukarram. It is claimed that she had left her husband and children several times to elope with Mukarram, as they wanted to marry each other. However, Mukrram’s parents were not ready to accept the woman’s condition that the young boy Shahzeb would also stay with them.

    Mukarram then abducted the toddler, seeing him as an obstacle to the marriage, but strangled him afterwards and threw the body into a canal.

    Mobile data investigations have confirmed that Mukarram turned out to be Shahzeb’s killer.

    Shahzeb’s mother was completely unaware of her son’s murder.

    The five-year-old was kidnapped in September last year, and the suspect was arrested after nine months of raids and investigation, which, according to the police, was a big success.

  • Police brutality on British-Pakistanis provoke protests in Manchester

    Police brutality on British-Pakistanis provoke protests in Manchester

    Several videos of an armed UK cop holding a taser over a man lying face down on the floor are going viral on social media. The cop can be seen striking the man twice while other officers shout at onlookers in Manchester Airport.

    Onlookers can be heard shouting in the video as the cops proceed to kick and stamp on the man’s heads. The chaotic scene continued as another person is heard yelling “move back”, while a female officer is seen turning her taser towards other individuals present.

    Other voices in the video plead, “Stop kicking people”, and a slew of expletives as multiple officers surround the men on the ground.

    Reports suggest the men being beaten by police officers are British Pakistanis.

    Videos of two young men who were arrested and then released by the police have also emerged online. Their lawyer has confirmed that Fahir and Ammad were assaulted by the police at the airport in front of their mother who could be seen protecting one of them in the video that went viral. The lawyer claimed that they were arrested by the police and upon their release they themselves went to the hospital for first-aid whereas it was the duty of the police to provide them with medical help. The lawyer stressed that a “complaint has been filed against the police officers that have assaulted both Fahir and Amaad and their elderly mother who was just there as a bystander”.

    The same Twitter thread claimed that someone at the airport had hit the trolley of the boys’ mother, and this escalated a fight, adding that the boys were released by the police because of the lack of evidence.

    Dawn’s Atika Rehman reports that the incident happened on Wednesday afternoon (July 24).

    Greater Manchester Police responded to the viral video by saying that an armed officer had been attacked while attempting to arrest someone, following a fight in Terminal 2 of the airport on Tuesday.

    Police issued a statement following the release of the video on social media that four men were arrested at the scene on suspicion of assaulting emergency service workers.

    The police said that a female officer suffered from a broken nose, and other officers required hospitalisation.

    BBC News quoted Assistant Chief Constable Wasim Chaudhry as saying: “We know that a film of an incident at Manchester Airport that is circulating widely shows an event that is truly shocking, and that people are rightly extremely concerned about. The use of such force in an arrest is an unusual occurrence and one that we understand creates alarm.”

    The IOPC said it would assess GMP’s referral “and decide what further action is required”.

    A protest was held following the footage release where one of the protesters had told the crowd they were “no longer going to settle” for “police brutality”, the Manchester Evening News reported.

    People from the British-Pakistani community expressed their disappointment at the police for mistreating the boys. A criminal lawyer in UK, Attik Malik posted a video of him expressing the disgust he felt after the videos and pronounced, “enough is enough.”

    Another user pointed out that, “this cannot be challenged. This is absolutely brutal and disgusting.”

  • Lahore leads in run-away children numbers

    Lahore leads in run-away children numbers

    A police report reveals that Lahore ranks first in the number of children who run away from home due to disputes with their parents. Most boys and girls head to the railway station to leave for other cities.

    According to the Railway Police, ninety-six children from various cities in Punjab were returned to their parents over a period of three months. Children tend to leave home when their demands for phones, laptops, and other items are not met.

    The help desk explained to Samaa news that railway stations provide an accessible route for children to travel to other cities.