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  • PFA issues warning notices to 28 eateries in Lahore for selling sub-standard food

    PFA issues warning notices to 28 eateries in Lahore for selling sub-standard food

    During a province-wide inspection of food outlets, the Punjab Food Authority (PFA) inspected 1,200 food points, issued improvement warning notices to 28 restaurants, and disposed of a significant amount of unwholesome food.

    Mudassar Riaz Malik, the Director General of the PFA, stated that a PFA team visited a well-known restaurant in Gulberg and found expired food products.

    Various cuisine dishes were being prepared using out-of-date items. According to him, the owner of the food establishment also neglected to provide the raiding team with the required documentation and maintain a clean working environment.

    Similarly, PFA seized 7,000 kg of beef last week that was about three years old.

    The meat was retrieved from a hotel’s cold storage unit and was imported from elsewhere.

    After looking into the matter, the food authority’s directorate general concluded that it is unknown if the stale meat is halal or haram. The meat was taken away and burnt by the authorities after the investigation.

  • Woman slaughters husband for hiding first marriage

    Woman slaughters husband for hiding first marriage

    A woman in Islamabad slaughtered her husband for hiding his first marriage, Shakeel Anjum has reported for The News. As per the details, the incident took place on Tuesday, in Sector G-12, Merabadi, Islamabad.

    According to the police, the man was already married but had not told Marjan Bibi, his second wife, about it. After finding out about it, despite the victim having long divorced his first wife, Marjan Bibi, who hails from Kohat, took revenge.

    As per the details, differences developed between the couple when the accused asked her husband about his first marriage. He admitted to having been married earlier, however he clarified that he had divorced his first wife years ago.

    The woman attacked her husband with a sharp weapon and killed him by slaughtering him with a dagger.

  • Sarah murder case: Police arrest mother of Shah Nawaz

    Sarah murder case: Police arrest mother of Shah Nawaz

    Samina Shah, the mother of Shah Nawaz, the prime accused in the Sarah Inam murder case and the wife of renowned political analyst Ayaz Amir, was detained by Islamabad Police on Wednesday.

    Shah was detained by the police after Additional Sessions Judge Sohail Sheikh rejected her request for release.

    The Capital Police arrested Samina Shah upon rejection of her bail extension by the Additional Sessions Judge Sheikh Sohail. Earlier, Samina’s interim bail was extended till October 19.

    Sameena, in a petition filed with an Islamabad sessions court, has said that she has no link with the murder. Offering details of the grisly incident, she has stated that her son had sent her a message on Whatsapp to arrange his wife’s rukhsati by speaking to her father just one night before the crime.

    She further said that Shah Nawaz called her on her mobile phone at 9:12 am the following day to inform her about the incident.

    “The petitioner asked Shahnawaz to sit in her room and Ayaz … had called the police and within a few minutes, the police had arrived and took custody of Shahnawaz,” she said in the plea.

    The Canadian national who had been working in the United Arab Emirates since a few years, was killed with a blow to her head with a dumbell, allegedly by her husband Shah Nawaz. The high-profile murder rocked Islamabad in the last week of September.

  • Viral Video: Emergency landing of plane as drunk passenger bites flight attendant’s finger

    Viral Video: Emergency landing of plane as drunk passenger bites flight attendant’s finger

    In a shocking incident of unruly behaviour by a passenger, a flight had to make emergency landing after a drunk man got into a fight with flight attendants and bit one’s finger.

    The passenger was travelling from Istanbul to Jakarta.

    Reports said that the flight attendant was trying to calm down the drunk 48-year-old Indonesian passenger, identified as Muhammad Hohn Jaiz Boudewijin.

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    The flight was supposed to arrive in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, at 5pm on Tuesday. However, it was forced to land at the Kualanamu International Airport in Medan over Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

    The plane continued on its journey after the passenger was removed. The flight reached its destination at eight o’clock local time. Jakarta Metro Police also confirmed that the passenger who caused the problem was dropped off and that he was believed to be drunk.

  • ‘Almost impossible to convict the elite’, Pakistanis angry kay Shahrukh Jatoi ko reha kia jaye ga

    ‘Almost impossible to convict the elite’, Pakistanis angry kay Shahrukh Jatoi ko reha kia jaye ga

    The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday acquitted Shahrukh Jatoi and others in Shahzeb Khan’s murder case.

    Shahzeb was murdered in Karachi in 2012.

    An Anti-Terrorism Court handed Jatoi a death sentence in 2013. However, in 2017, the complainant side had ‘pardoned’ Jatoi under the country’s Qisas and Diyat law.

    The hearing at the apex court was headed by a three-judge bench that included Justice Sayyed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi, Justice Munib Akhtar, and Justice Ijazul Ahsan.

    The son of Deputy Superintendent of Police, Aurangzeb Khan, the 20-years-old Shahzeb Khan was shot and killed at Karachi’s Defence Housing Authority on December 24, 2012. He was returning home from a wedding with his sister.

    Shahzeb was slain after he got into an altercation with one of the suspects’ servants who had verbally threatened and tormented his sister.

    Twitter users are expressing their anger over the acquittal of Shahrukh Jatoi.

  • Monday worst day of the week: Guinness World Record

    Monday worst day of the week: Guinness World Record

    According to Guinness World Records, Monday is the “worst day of the week”, verifying what most people feel about the first working day after the weekend.

    The Guinness World Records tweeted from its account, “We’re officially giving Monday the record of the worst day of the week.”

    More than 143 million copies of the Guinness Book of Records, now known as the Guinness World Records, have been sold. It is distributed in 100 different countries and is published in at least 22 different languages.

  • Climate Change: Floods in Nigeria kills at least 600 people

    The death toll from devastating floods in Nigeria this year has increased to 603.

    Some 1.3 million people have been displaced, and more than 200,000 homes have been destroyed.

    Flooding is expected to continue until the end of November.

    Seasonal flooding is not new in the African country, but this year has been substantially worse than usual.

    In addition to the disruption of food and fuel sources, there are worries about the increasing spread of disease.

    Sadiya Umar Farouk, Nigeria’s minister for humanitarian affairs and disaster management, urged local authorities to evacuate residents in the riskiest locations during a press conference on Sunday.
    She said that authorities are already giving food and other forms of assistance to those in need.
    She continued by saying that several state administrations “failed not to prepare” for the disaster despite “concerted efforts” and early warnings.
    Of Nigeria’s 36 states, 27 have been impacted by the disaster.

  • Air Quality: Lahore is the most polluted city in the world right now

    Air Quality: Lahore is the most polluted city in the world right now

    Lahore on Monday topped the list of the most polluted cities in the world with the worst air quality levels on the globe.

    Karachi is second on the list while India’s New Delhi is third on IQAir.

    Lahore was measured to have 172 Unhealthy particulate matter and Karachi had 106 particulate matter, according to the air quality index.

    The numbers keep changing.

    As per United States Environmental protection agency, a hazardous category indicates an AQI of 301–500. The ‘good’ category is 0–50, which is followed by ‘moderate’ at 51–100 while anything in the 101–301 AQI range is considered unhealthy.

  • Eight-year-old raped by six men in Chiniot

    Eight-year-old raped by six men in Chiniot

    An eight-year old girl was allegedly gang-raped by six men in Chiniot, reports ARY. As per the details, all six perpetrators fled away from the scene.

    The rape survivor has been shifted to the hospital for medical treatment and tests.

    According to the police, the father of the rape survivor filed the complaint. The police have also said that further action would be taken in light of the girl’s medical report.

    Almost 21,900 women were reported to have been raped in Pakistan from 2017 to 2021, Zahid Gishkori reported for Samaa. The data has been complied by SAMAA TV Investigation Unit (SIU) from the Punjab Home Department and Ministry of Human Rights (MoHRs).

    This means that approximately 12 women were raped every day, or one every two hours, throughout the country.

  • Video: Doctor removes 23 contact lenses from patient’s eye

    Video: Doctor removes 23 contact lenses from patient’s eye

    A video of a doctor in California, USA, removing 23 contact lenses stuck inside a woman’s eye has gone viral on social media. As per the doctor, the patient forgot to remove her lenses at night.

    Posting the video on the California Eye Associates Instagram page, Dr Katerina Kurteeva wrote: “A rare occasion when someone ‘forgot’ to remove contact lenses at night and kept on putting a new one in every morning. 23 days in a row!!! I got to deliver the contact lens yesterday in my clinic.”

    The ophthalmologist can be seen using a cotton bud to take out the ‘lost’ contact lenses stacked up inside the woman’s eye.