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  • Second marriage sends Lahori man to jail

    Second marriage sends Lahori man to jail

    The debate surrounding a man’s second marriage has gone on for long. The Islamabad High Court recently ruled that a man needs permission from an arbitration council even if his first wife allows.

    A Lahori man got himself into trouble by contracting a second marriage without the permission of his first wife. First wife Shamim Bibi filed a case against her husband and stated in her appeal that her husband cheated on her and did not take permission from her for second marriage.

    The first wife said that this is still less punishment for him.

    Islamabad High Court (IHC) had made it compulsory to take permission from the reconciliation council for second marriage after asking the first wife. If a man’s first wife grants him permission but reconciliation council does not approve his second marriage then that marriage can cost him a fine and a punishment.

  • ‘Storm Adiala’: Facebook event on July 21 to ‘rescue jailed Nawaz’

    ‘Storm Adiala’: Facebook event on July 21 to ‘rescue jailed Nawaz’

    With hundreds of thousands of people signing up for the event titled ‘Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us’, a local version of the plan, ‘Storm Adiala to Save Nawaz’, has been created on Facebook.

    Over 600,000 people have signed up to the Area 51 event that invites attendees to gather before entering the air force base obsessing alien conspiracy theorists for long.

    The Pakistani version of the event, on the other hand, calls on the participants to raid the Rawalpindi Central Jail aka Adiala Jail to save former prime minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif.

    It is highly unlikely that the event is not a joke since the ex-PM, convicted in corruption references, is not even locked up there. He was transferred to Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail after a court, last year, accepted his application to be incarcerated in Punjab’s provincial capital instead of Rawalpindi.

    The satirical event, however, has received over 943 signatures, including that of social media influencer and comedian Junaid Akram. Over 1,500 have also marked themselves as interested in attending the event.

    It is scheduled for July 21 (Sunday) at 6 pm, whereas the person behind the event is not yet known.

  • VIDEO: PTI leader showered with dollars, euros, riyals upon arrival in hometown

    VIDEO: PTI leader showered with dollars, euros, riyals upon arrival in hometown

    Pakistan Tehreek-e Insaf (PTI) leader Sohail Zafar was showered with foreign currency notes as he reached his hometown on Sunday.

    According to reports, the leader was welcomed with euros, United States (US) dollars and riyals besides Rs5,000 currency notes by the party’s local leadership in Gujranwala, over his appointment as Punjab Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) chairman.

    WATCH VIDEO:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs6TfGVxoNI

    It was Zafar’s maiden visit to his hometown since the appointment by PTDC Board of Directors last month.

    Cheema’s caravan entered the boundary of his hometown Machike Sandhuan when PTI leader Shahid Iqbal Naghra showered him with foreign currencies, whereas the party members received him by dancing and tossing flower petals, reports said.

    Party workers were also reported to be collecting the currency notes on the ground as was seen in the video that went viral on social media.

  • VIDEO: ‘Adil told me Allah was with us’, English captain after World Cup win

    VIDEO: ‘Adil told me Allah was with us’, English captain after World Cup win

    Irish and British cricketer Eoin Morgan, who steered the England cricket team to victory in the 2019 World Cup on Sunday, has said that “Allah was with them”.

    After a sensational win against New Zealand in the World Cup final held at Lord’s, Dublin-born Morgan was asked whether England team enjoyed the famed luck of the Irish.

    “I spoke to Adil (England leg-spinner Adil Rashid), he said Allah was definitely with us,” he said in response.

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    “It actually summarises our team. Quite diverse backgrounds and cultures and guys grow up in different countries and to actually find humour in the situation we were in at times was pretty cool,” Morgan added.

    Earlier, England lifted their maiden World Cup. Both the Englishmen and Kiwis scored 241 runs which led to a first-ever Super Over in the World Cup final.

    Both teams scored 15 runs each, however, England was declared the winner based on boundary count in the match.

  • Lahore board announces matric 2019 result, check yours here

    Lahore board announces matric 2019 result, check yours here

    Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Lahore on Monday announced the result of 2019 matriculation examinations.

    Students can check their result from here.

    A day earlier, the board announced names of the top position holders. Danish Athar clinched the overall first position in both sciences and humanities groups by scoring 1,092 marks out of 1,100.

    Anoosha Zikriya, Syed Hassan Abbas and Muhammad Affan Amir shared the second position with 1,090 marks each and Saba Iqbal and Saira Hayyat shared the third position.

    A prize-distribution ceremony in the honour of the position holders will also be held today at a local hotel where Provincial Minister for Higher Education Raja Yasir Humayun Sarfraz will be the chief guest.

  • Navjot Singh Sidhu resigns as minister from Punjab cabinet

    Navjot Singh Sidhu resigns as minister from Punjab cabinet

    Indian cricketer-turned-politician and a close friend of Prime Minister Imran Khan, Navjot Singh Sidhu, has resigned from the Punjab Cabinet. Though he did not cite the reason for his departure, Indian media report that his rising differences with Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh was the reason behind his resignation.

    Sindhu made the announcement on Twitter by sharing his resignation letter sent to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on June 10.

    “I hereby resign as minister from the Punjab cabinet,” read the letter.

    He added that he will be sending his resignation to the Chief Minister, Punjab.

    According to The Hindu, after the Cabinet reshuffle on June 6, Sidhu was relieved from his portfolios of Local Bodies, Tourism and Culture and allocated the Power and New and Renewable Energy Sources portfolios.

    However, Sidhu, instead of taking charge of the new Ministry, approached party’s Central leadership to express his displeasure and appraised the “high command’’ of being singled out “unfairly”.

    CM Amarinder and Sidhu’s differences emerged in the 2019 Lok Sabha poll. It began Sidhu’s wife Navjot Kaur Sidhu accusing Capt. Amarinder of blocking her Lok Sabha ticket from Chandigarh. Later, the Chief Minister blamed Sidhu for not handling his department well, which he claimed had resulted in the Congress’s “poor performance” in urban areas in the general election.

  • Airports to allow only one visitor per passenger

    Airports to allow only one visitor per passenger

    Are your relatives coming from abroad? Or are you planning to go? If you are, then you should know that the Airport Security Force (ASF) has decided to limit the number of visitors coming along with passengers.

    The decision has been taken keeping in mind security concerns and the fact that Hajj flight operations are currently underway. In most cases, families in large numbers come to see off or receive Hajj passengers.

    Officials of the ASF informed the public that only one family member or a friend would be allowed to receive or see off passengers at Jinnah International Terminal, Karachi and Allama Iqbal International Airport, Lahore. They also said that the step was being taken to limit crowds at the airport and to prevent security breaches.

    Earlier this month two people were
    gunned down at the Lahore airport’s international arrival gate.

  • Female celebrities speak up against online abuse

    Female celebrities speak up against online abuse

    While scrolling through social media, you often come across abusive and vile comments, targeted at female celebrities, which make you shudder if they catch your eye for even a moment. Recently, several popular female celebrities have spoken up about being abused online and have called for a stop on it.

    Here are all those who have expressed their anger online.

    Mahira Khan

    This is not the first time Mahira Khan has opened up about online abuse and its repercussions.

    Hania Aamir

    Hania Aamir has spoken up on more than one occasion about being bullied online but her recent Instagram story was directed at Hina Altaf who commented that Muneeb Butt is a bad actor.

    Ayesha Omar

    Ayesha Omar is currently vacationing in Greece but it appears that Pakistani citizens are not having with her vacay style and are voicing their disapproval in the comments section. That propelled Ayesha to post this in her Instagram stories.

    Iqra Aziz

    In just the past week, Iqra Aziz has talked about cyber abuse twice. Once before her engagement to Yasir Hussain and once after. In her first post, Iqra talked about how it takes a few words to bring someone down and tell them that they aren’t good enough. In her second post, post-engagement, she said that she is shutting out all those who are spreading hate and vitriol online.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BzvWoBWgpAC/
    https://www.instagram.com/p/BzfvMttAOeA/
  • Imran Abbas defends himself after backlash on lion picture

    Imran Abbas defends himself after backlash on lion picture

    A recent report by AFP has revealed a growing trend in keeping lions as pets in Karachi and rough estimates show that 300 lions are being kept as pets.

    Recently, actor Imran Abbas posted a picture of himself posing with a lion and playing with it on the terrace of a house.

    Naturally, his picture invited tremendous backlash after which Imran took to Instagram to clarify that the lion is not “caged or malnutritioned.” He shared that the animal is kept in a natural habitat at a farmhouse and was brought to the house only for a day. Abbas added that the lion, named Simba, loves human beings and cannot be sent back to the jungle because he can’t live without the owner.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz0iyywnby2/

    In a follow-up post, Abbas also clarified that the lion was not on drugs and was in fact pampered. He also thanked everyone for their concern.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz0yPsin-X4/

    Further social media sleuthing revealed that the lion belonged to a social media influencer called Azlan Shah. Azlan, who calls himself an animal lover, has over time, shared lots of pictures of himself with his pet lion.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz1Dx3aFVNK/
    https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv30wKelAhw/

    Keeping wild animals as exotic pets has witnessed an upward trend in the past few years, especially in Karachi, where people have started keeping snakes, lions, tigers and giraffes as pets.

  • Healthy living: Organic products and where to buy them

    Healthy living: Organic products and where to buy them

    From time to time we aim to adopt a healthier lifestyle and eat things which are more natural and organic. If you’re one of those who are planning to take the plunge, here are some stores where you can get organic stuff.

    Lahore

    The Organic Shop

    The organic shop has a variety of fresh vegetables, fruits, meat, a variety of oils and ghee. They also have delicious pop bars you can have to beat the heat, the healthy way. The best part is that they have amazing discounts from time to time.

    Health Hut

    The Health Hut stocks all sort of organic and healthy food such desi ata, eggs, gurh, shakkar and honey. They also have organic beauty products.

    Apart from these two, organic products are also available at the Haryali Store and Hyperstar.

    Karachi

    Mandi Express

    Who doesn’t like the idea of fresh, organic products delivered to your doorstep? Mandi Express gives you just that. It has an amazing variety of organic vegetables, fruits, dry fruits, meat, and poultry and flour.

    Organic Karachi

    Karachiites are really lucky in this regard. They get fresh groceries right on their doorstep. Organic Karachi is an online store that stocks organic hygienic food.

    Islamabad

    Greenland Farms

    Islamabadis, Greenland Farms should be your go-to place if you’re looking to buy healthy stuff. They have farm fresh and wholesome dairy, meat, poultry, as well as seafood.

    Other cities

    Health Homie

    This online grocery store delivers all over Pakistan.  So if you can’t find organic products in your city, Health Homie is your place to go.