Hina Butt has lashed out at Muhammad Hafeez for congratulating Prime Minister Imran Khan and calling his Vote of Confidence a “Masterstroke”.
Responding to Hafeez’s tweet the Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) MPA Hina Butt said: “Pakistan was ridiculed in the world for not following corona SOPs and now you are supporting a vote thief.”
“It is better to play cricket with your mouth shut and do not comment on politics,” she added.
Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan on Saturday won the crucial confidence vote in the National Assembly, hanging on to power after his finance adviser Abdul Hafeez Sheikh lost the high-stakes Senate seat election earlier in the week. After PM’s victory, many celebrities took to their social media tocongratulate him. Other celebrities who congratulated Khan included Waqar Younis, Gohar Rasheed, Haroon Shahid, Fahad Mirza, Shaan and Feroze Khan.
A man in Sukkur climbed up an electric pole after his family failed to get him married.
As per details, Hanif hailing from Sukkur, a district of Sindh, climbed a pole of high tension wires after his family refused to get him married.
The family of the youth is trying to convince him to come down.
Talking to media, Hanif’s relatives said that he had again climbed the electric pole. Hanif has earlier climbed the pole four months ago.
In a similar incident that happened in December, last year, a man had climbed up an electric pole to reportedly woo his angry wife in Sindh. Nadeem Jamali, a resident of Kandhkot, had climbed a pole of high-tension wires after his unhappy wife moved the court for Khula.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has issued a statement rejecting the “discussion and unhappiness” over the way Senate polls were conducted.
“It is a shocking matter that under the same staff in the same [election] under the same roof on the same day, [what they won] is acceptable and [what they lost] is unacceptable. Is this not [an] open contradiction?” questioned the commission.
A day earlier, Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan had criticised the election watchdog for allowing “foul play” in the elections for the upper house of the parliament.
“The ECP rejects this,” Friday’s statement added. “This is democracy and free elections and the beauty of free elections which the entire nation saw and which is mandated by the Constitution.”
Every political party and politician should have the courage to accept its defeat, it said.
The electoral body said that if someone disagreed with the ECP’s results, they should come forward with evidence.
“We have neither come under pressure from anybody and neither will we [do so in the future].”
The ECP’s statement came after an urgent meeting was convened following the premier’s accusations.
People are likely to get record relief this Ramzan as a Rs6.37 billion package has been proposed.
According to reports, the Ministry of Industries & Production (MoIP) has proposed the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) to approve the mega Ramzan relief package for 2021.
Profit quoted sources at MoIP as saying that under the proposed relief package to be offered through utility stores network, the government would give a subsidy of around Rs40 per kilogramme on sugar, banaspati ghee and wheat flour. The ECC, which would be chaired by Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, is likely to approve the historic relief package soon, they added.
As per an MoIP official, the average Ramzan relief package in the past 10 years ranged between Rs1.5 to Rs2.5 billion.
“The relief package last year was Rs2.5 billion and the average savings for the consumers remained Rs10–Rs15 on various items. However, serious intervention will be required this year to control the prices of vegetable ghee and oil, sugar and even wheat flour,” he added.
They said the relief package would include a reduction in prices of 14 essential items by 10pc to 15pc at utility stores, besides the sale of five items at subsidised rates.
The World Wildlife Fund-Pakistan (WWF-P) released rare footage of a snow leopard hunting a Himalayan ibex in Khunjerab National Park, located at a distance of approximately 15 kilometres from the Pakistan-China border.
The footage was released on March 3 to mark the annual World Wildlife Day. According to details, the video is aimed to raise awareness about wildlife protection and threats to their survival.
The gripping video shows a snow leopard silently chasing a herd of Himalayan ibex on steep cliffs. After successfully hunting an ibex, the snow leopard can be seen feasting on it. Two other cats joined the leopard later.
The video was recorded by wildlife photographer Muhammad Osama.
According to Osama, he followed the herd of the ibex in severe cold, with the temperature as low as – 18 degrees Celsius, looking for fresh snow leopard pugmarks.
“Capturing this hunt was once in a lifetime experience as it involved hours of tireless tracking, climbing mountains and withstanding freezing cold temperatures,” he said.
WWF-P director general Hammad Naqi Khan also expressed hope that the video would help in raising awareness about wildlife in Pakistan and the need to guard it.
He said wildlife in Pakistan and in the rest of the world faced increasing threats due to deforestation and human encroachment, which led to habitat degradation, while new threats such as unsustainable infrastructure and climate change were also emerging.
As a result, the survival of wildlife, such as snow leopards, Indus River dolphins, common leopards, pangolins, brown bear and white-backed vultures, hangs in the balance, he added.
Khan requested the government to ensure that existing protected areas in the country were restored so that wildlife could flourish in healthy landscapes.
Police in Swat arrested a seminary teacher for attacking her three-year-old student with a blade.
According to reports, the teacher attacked the student as she wanted her student’s sister’s wedding to be postponed.
Investigation SP Nazeer told media outlets that the teacher wanted her student’s sister to marry her brother.
When the teacher got to know that her student’s sister is marrying someone else, she could not tolerate it and took the extreme step.
The suspect confessed to her crime in court after which she was sent to a jail in Swat.
Earlier, a girl in Hafizabad hired an assassin to kill her best friend for breaking a promise regarding living and dying together, and not getting married.
As lawmakers elect colleagues to the upper house of the Parliament amid controversies, Sindh Information Minister Nasir Hussain Shah has purportedly been heard in a leaked audio making assurances to ruling party lawmakers.
The audio clip being reported as a conversation between Punjab MPA Ali Haider Gillani and Shah emerged shortly after a video of former prime minister Yusuf Raza Gillani’s son instructing a lawmaker on how his vote can be wasted in the Senate election went viral on social media.
In yet another evidence of lawmakers being offered money for voting against party lines during the Senate elections, Sindh Information Minister Nasir Hussain Shah could be purportedly heard in a leaked audio making assurances to the PTI lawmakers.#SenateElections2021#ARYNewspic.twitter.com/mQi0hqMzXo
In the audio, two people can be heard talking about offers of millions of rupees to PTI lawmakers ahead of the Senate polls.
Ali can allegedly be heard saying that he spoke to Shah, who asked him to bring down the “offer”. An assurance is given in the audio that development work will be done in constituencies as per the wishes of PTI lawmakers.
“We could carry out uplift projects worth around Rs100 million,” said a voice being attributed to Ali.
The son of the Senate candidate allegedly said it would be difficult to carry money if payments are made in cash as it would attract attention.
The same voice further said that ‘friends’ (PTI lawmakers) were standing with him and wanted to talk to the provincial information minister.
“Tell four of them that they would be taken care of,” another man responded. The voice is said to be of Shah.
The provincial information minister has denied that the voice is his.
آپ مبینہ آڈیو ریکارڈنگ میں علی حیدر گیلانی اور چار تحریک انصاف کے ایم این ایز کو مزید پیسوں کی یقین دہانی کرا رہے ہیں، کیا یہ انتخابات میں پیسہ چلنے کو ثابت نہیں کرتا؟ سنیے ناصر حسین شاہ کا موقف
A woman gave birth to a two-headed baby at a private hospital in the city of Badin, Sindh on Tuesday.
According to the doctors who were a part of the delivery, the mother and child are both “healthy” and out of danger. Doctors stated that the baby’s heads were separated after a surgical procedure. The family belongs to Sujawal district’s Mirpur Bathoro area.
Senior gynaecologist Dr Nusrat Babu Khati says that an ultrasound report of the baby obtained after delivery, shows that the baby’s brain is split and is visible in both heads.
The newborn’s condition is stable, she added, cautioning that more tests would be conducted after consulting senior doctors. The parents will be given advice and training on how to take care of their baby.
An Indian Airline flying from Sharjah to Lucknow made an emergency landing in Karachi after a passenger died during the flight on Monday.
According to reports, IndiGo Airline’s Flight Number 6E1412 entered Pakistani airspace around 4:00 am via Iran when the passenger fell ill. The captain then contacted the air traffic control and requested an emergency landing on humanitarian grounds at the Karachi airport.
After the approval of the request, the airline made an emergency landing at Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport at 5:30 am.
The Pakistani medical team said that the passenger had fallen sick and passed away due to cardiac arrest.
This is not the first time that Pakistan has allowed an Indian plane to make an emergency landing in Karachi. In November last year, an Indian plane flying from Saudi Arabia made an emergency landing in Karachi as a passenger aboard the flight died of a heart attack.
As the plane touched the ground, a doctor at Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport was requested to attend to him but the man died before he could be administered medical aid.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has approached the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to share the call record data of the 20 presiding officers who went ‘missing’ during the Daska by-polls inNA-75, The News has reported.
Last week, the ECP had announced that new elections in the entire constituency will be held in NA-75 (Daska) after its returning officeralleged irregularities during the by-polls in a report submitted to the commission. Government sources told The News that the PTA has asked the government whether to share the data with the ECP or not.
Speaking to The Current, Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry said that the ECP has all the right to secure phone data though it “should ask the IT Ministry and not PTA under rules of business”.
According to the story published in The News, the government may be uneasy about the phone data as it could reveal who had planned and supervised the Daska by-poll rigging. The phone records “will not only establish the whereabouts of these 20 presiding officers during the time when they were missing but will also uncover those they were in contact with”.
On February 22, Prime Minister Imran Khan had tweeted that as he had always struggled for fair and free elections, he would ask the PTI candidate in NA-75 to ask for re-polling in the 20 polling stations that had become controversial. But the ECP later called for new elections in the entire constituency.
Have always struggled for fair & free elections. So even though there is no legal compulsion to do so before ECP announces results, I would request our PTI candidate to ask for re-polling in the 20 polling stations Opposition is crying hoarse over in the Daska NA 75 bye- election
The PTI has now decided to challenge the ECP’s decision for re-polls.
پہلے دعویٰ کیا کہ الیکشن کمیشن کا فیصلہ قبول کریں گے کیونکہ ہم ان پارٹیوں کی طرح نہیں جو فیصلے نہ مانیں اور چیلنج کریں ۔ پھر کیوں چیلنج کرنے کا فیصلہ کیا؟ آج الیکشن کمیشن کو کوئی ثبوت اور پورے فارم 45کیوں نہیں دیے جیسا کہ آپ نے دعویٰ کیا تھا؟ سنیے
