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  • Nation-wide petrol strike: List of Petrol stations that are still open today

    Nation-wide petrol strike: List of Petrol stations that are still open today

    The Pakistan Petroleum Dealers Association (PPDA) has launched a nationwide strike today. PPDA is demanding that dealers’ profit margin on petroleum products be increased to six per cent the current three per cent.

    Earlier, the dealers had announced the strike on November 5 but withdrew it after a government delegation held a meeting with them on November 3 to fulfil their demands.

    However, some petrol pumps are opened today. The Pakistani Energy Ministry, which is verified on Twitter, in a tweet mentioned the names of the petrol pumps that are open today. The petrol pumps which are open today include some from HESCO, GO, SHELL and PSO.

    Read more- All petrol pumps will be closed, petroleum dealers announce strike on Nov 25

    Deputy Commissioner Lahore, Umer Sher Chattha in a tweet shared the list of 62 petrol pumps that are opened in Lahore today.

    Earlier this month, the government had announced the rise of up to Rs 8.14 per litre of petroleum products.

  • ‘Firdous can become a fashion designer, Nawaz faked platelets’: Veena Malik gets candid

    ‘Firdous can become a fashion designer, Nawaz faked platelets’: Veena Malik gets candid

    Actor Veena Malik appeared on ARY’s Hamarey Mehman, she got candid about her professional and personal life apart from sociopolitical personalities.

    The Bigg Boss diva also chose alternate career paths for mainstream politicians, while she thinks that Mariam Nawaz can become a make-up artist, she believes that former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif can be a great actor, citing that he faked his blood platelets to get away from the legal mess.

    On being asked about Firdous Ashiq Awan, the Sachiyan Mohabtaan star mentioned that she loves her sense of style, especially her choice of prints and hence she should become a fashion designer.

    The actress credited PM Imran Khan to be the most good looking political leader in Pakistan.

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  • Ayesha Omar strongly claps back at troll for inappropriate comment on her swimming picture

    Ayesha Omar strongly claps back at troll for inappropriate comment on her swimming picture

    Actor Ayesha Omar has responded to a netizen on Instagram for dropping a hate comment on a picture in which she can be seen swimming in a lake.

    The Bulbulay star, who is currently vacationing in East Africa, turned to her Instagram on Saturday to share a video of herself swimming around with a bunch of turtles in a water body.

    Ayesha Omar grabs lunch with turtles in Tanzania: Watch Video
    Ayesha Omar grabs ‘lunch’ with turtles in Tanzania: Watch Video

    Actor Ayesha Omar is blowing off some steam during Tanzania holiday!

    The Bulbulay star, who is currently vacationing in East Africa, turned to her Instagram on Saturday to share a video of herself swimming around with a bunch of turtles in a water body.

    Ayesha Omar grabs lunch with turtles in Tanzania: Watch Video

    “Lunch with these beauties. Seaweed= low in calories, great source of vitamins and minerals. Thank you my beautiful @henna_by_sheikha for making this video. I’m so grateful to have met you,” captioned Ayesha alongside her post.

    A netizen passed a derogatory and hurtful comment, to which the Karachi Se Lahore diva was quick to respond.

    Ayesha Omar grabs lunch with turtles in Tanzania: Watch Video

    READ MORE: Ayesha Omar breaks silence on wedding rumours with Shoaib Malik

  • Twitter reacts to CJP order to speed up demolition process of Nasla Tower

    Twitter reacts to CJP order to speed up demolition process of Nasla Tower

    Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Gulzar Ahmed has ordered the Karachi commissioner Muhammad Iqbal Memon to speed up the demolition process of Nasla Tower, reports Dawn.

    CJP inquired whether the demolition order had been carried out or not. To this, Memon said that he needed “guidance” from the court and wanted to say something.

    “Cut to the chase, did you demolish the building or not?” the chief justice questioned again. He grilled the commissioner and warned that he could be sent to jail over contempt of court. “Do you know where you are standing?” said Justice Qazi Mohammad Amin Ahmed, who was also heading the hearing.

    “You are constantly committing contempt of court. Is he worthy of being called a commissioner? He is a grade 18 officer who is saying such things here.”

    People on Twitter condemned the demolishing act, including the chief justice’s order while others demanded the demolishment of other places.

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    However, shortly after the hearing, the commissioner arrived at the Nasla Tower to oversee the demolition work along with several other officers.

    “Nasla Tower’s demolition work had begun. It had been halted as precautionary measures were not being taken,” he said, adding that the court had issued orders to ensure lives were not lost in the demolition process.

  • US President Biden invites Pakistan for virtual summit on democracy, leaves China and Turkey out

    United States (US) President Joe Biden has invited 110 countries, including Pakistan, for a virtual summit on democracy. The summit is expected to take place on December 9 and 10.

    According to a list posted on the US State Department website, America’s top rival China and North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) ally Turkey are missing from the list.

    Surprisingly, US traditional Arab allies Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are also not invited. From the Middle East region, only Israel and Iraq are excepted to join other countries for the meeting.

    The conference was a campaign pledge by Biden, who has placed the struggle between democracies and “autocratic governments” at the heart of his foreign policy, reports Dawn. However, the second edition of this meeting will take place in person next year.

    While announcing the summit in August, the White House said the meeting would “galvanise commitments and initiatives across three principal themes: defending against authoritarianism, fighting corruption, and promoting respect for human rights”.

  • Falak Shabir reacts to morphed picture of his and Sarah with a Katrina-Vicky twist

    Falak Shabir reacts to morphed picture of his and Sarah with a Katrina-Vicky twist

    Singer Falak Shabbir expressed his amusement at a photo of Katrina Kaif and Vicky Kaushal circulating the internet that is actually a doctored version of Sarah Khan and Falak’s wedding picture.

    The Roag singer wrote, “Wait, What”, in the caption and added a laughing emoji.

    The Zindagi duo recently celebrated daughter Alyana’s aqeeqa ceremony.

    According to Indian media, Vicky Kaushal and Katrina Kaif will tie the knot in the first week of December at Six Senses Fort Barwara, a resort in Sawai Madhopur, which is located just 30 minutes away from Ranthambore National Park in Rajasthan.

    It is owned by none other than Rajasthan’s Royal Family.

  • ‘I am not making any profit’, food-price inflation is crushing Pakistan’s poorest

    The New York Times (NYT), in an article has documented the lives of the public in the wake of high inflation in Pakistan.

    Pakistan, which is already under heavy debt has recently reached an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the first one billion dollars of what is expected to be a 6 billion dollars rescue package announced by the government earlier this week. Last month, Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, pledged 4.2 billion in cash assistance to Pakistan.

    “The economy is the biggest threat that the government is in fact facing right now. This is basically eroding the very basis of their public support, said Khurram Husain, a business journalist in Karachi.

    Journalists Emily Schmall and Salman Masood reported on the life of 66-year-old Muhammad Nazir, a shopkeeper who canceled his daughter’s wedding and despite having a motorcycle at home, walks to his shop. Many of his shelves are empty because he can’t afford to stock the same supply of candy, soft drinks, and cookies that he once did.

    “I am not making any profit these days. Still, I come here every day, open the shop and wait for customers,” Nazir said.

    Saleem Shahzad, a plumber who recently moved his six-year-old son to a less expensive school said, “[The Prime Minister] Imran Khan is a good person and is still liked by many, but his team is not performing. It is incompetent.”

    According to government data, inflation in Pakistan surged 9.2 per cent in October from the year 2020. The cost of basic food items this month increased by 17 per cent. Pakistan’s biggest food import is palm oil, which has also jumped in price. Moreover, in recent months Pakistanis have seen standard gas prices jump to 34 per cent.

  • ‘Government should have bought gas cargoes earlier’: Shaukat Tarin admits to gas crisis

    ‘Government should have bought gas cargoes earlier’: Shaukat Tarin admits to gas crisis

    Advisor to the Prime Minister on Finance Shaukat Tarin admitted to the present gas crisis in the country.

    While speaking on Samaa News’ programme, ‘Nadeem Malik Live’, Shaukat Tarin said, “We [government] should have bought the gas cargoes on time as the purchasing time for it was over.”

    Tarin further said nobody knew about the international prices, which he stated were quite high and that the government should have bought some cargoes earlier.

    Tarin said the country’s imports of petroleum and gas touched almost $20 billion per year, which had been at $12 to $13 billion per year and now it had to pay $7-8 billion more in that regard.

    Shaukat Tarin said that as per the market pundits, the prices would come down during December and January when the intensity of the Covid-19 pandemic would start declining.

    Speaking on the gas crisis, Tarin said Pakistani companies were supplying gas to consumers. He added that a couple of gas discoveries were made in Lakki Marwat, however, money was needed for the extraction process.

    Last week, Energy Minister Hammad Azhar took to Twitter to challenge journalist Shahzeb Khanzada to a debate on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and gas.

    Shahzeb Khanzada, a year ago, had warned that the gas crisis was impending, kept reiterating that the crisis needs immense attention, otherwise the consequences shall be huge.

    Azhar took to Twitter and proposed a challenge.

    “I would like to challenge Shahzeb Khanzada to debate LNG and Gas issues with me moderated by a neutral anchor and with Independent experts. Let the ppl [people] see the facts without persistent interrupting, volume controls, teleprompters etc,” tweeted Azhar.

  • Sindh High Court Allows Children Of Single Parents To Get CNIC Without Father’s Information

    Sindh High Court Allows Children Of Single Parents To Get CNIC Without Father’s Information









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    Yesterday, Abdullah did this super scary story on how a man killed his wife by making a cobra bite her while she was asleep. I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that what kind of a psychopath that man must be.

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    ‘Highlight previous history of PML-N as to how the party attacked judiciary’: PM Khan

    During a meeting with his spokespersons, Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan on Monday said the alleged audio leak of former Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Saqib Nisar was devised by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). 

    He instructed his spokespersons to highlight the previous history of the PML-N as to how the party had attacked the judiciary and maligned judges. Other updates on the audio leak:

    Samaa TV, a private news channel, ran a news story and claimed that the former Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Saqib Nisar’s clip appears to be pieced together from two of his separate speeches.I don’t know what the truth is but if the audio is fabricated, then the government must initiate an inquiry.

    Kartarpur Corridor reunites Pakistani and Indian friends separated during partition

    The Kartarpur Corridor has brought together two friends separated after India was divided into two countries.

    When were they seprated?Sardar Gopal Singh from India who is now 94 and Muhammad Bashir from Pakistan who is now 91 got separated in 1947. They both hugged each other when they met after almost six decades.

    Sardar Gopal Singh came to Kartarpur to perform religious rites at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib and Bashir visited Kartarpur as a visitor.

    Gopal Singh, while recalling old memories, said that both of them were young at the time of partition. Bashir, who is from Narowal, said that even before partition, Gopal and him used to visit Baba Guru Nanak’s Gurdwara.

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    SHC allows children of single parents to get CNIC without father’s information

    In a landmark ruling, the Sindh High Court (SHC) has ordered the National Database Registration Authority (NADRA) to issue Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC) to a woman who didn’t know about her father’s whereabouts.

    Further details:Rubina was brought up by a single mother as her father had left the family many years ago. The local court ordered NADRA to issue CNIC to Rubina based on her mother’s citizenship record. Her mother works in the Education Department.

    Advocate Usman Farooq stated that the ruling would apply to similar cases and now the children with single parents would be able to get their CNICs after producing the record of only a single parent.

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    ‘We are on the right track’: Babar Azam after Pakistan whitewashed Bangladesh

    Pakistan cricket team captain Babar Azam has credited his side’s inspiring teamwork for their stunning clean sweep against hosts Bangladesh in the recently ended three-match T20I series.

    ‘Never forced Asim to leave his father’: Gul-e-Rana opens up on divorce

    Actor Gul e Rana recently opened up on her personal life in an interview with a digital magazine, during the show the Cheekh star among other things talked about her broken marriage and raising son Asim Azhar as a single mother.

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    1.#AbhiNoneDoneAward

    It was the top trending hashtag on Pakistani Twitter as the Pakistan Foreign Office (FO) issued a statement on Abhinandan being awarded India’s third-highest gallantry medal.

    2. #BringBackZulfiBukhari

    Apparently an alleged paid hashtag, it started trending after PM Khan approved the appointment of Ayub Afridi as Advisor on Overseas Pakistanis. The position was earlier held by Zulfi Bukhari.

    3. #SaqibNisarExposed

    This hashtag was trending in regards to the alleged leaked audio of former Chief Justice Saqib Nisar.

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  • ‘We are on the right track’: Babar Azam after Pakistan whitewashed Bangladesh in T20I series

    ‘We are on the right track’: Babar Azam after Pakistan whitewashed Bangladesh in T20I series

    Pakistan cricket team captain Babar Azam has credited his side’s inspiring teamwork for their stunning clean sweep against hosts Bangladesh in the recently ended three-match T20I series.

    Discussing his team’s prolific performance after the final fixture, the superstar batter mentioned how every member of the Pakistan side is aware of their roles. The strategy has paid dividends for them in their recent assignments, according to the skipper.

    The 27-year-old feels that a form slump is part and parcel of the game. Babar added that he intends to take positives from the series, despite his own underwhelming outings. He also recognized contributions from the likes of Mohammad Rizwan, Fakhar Zaman and Khushdil Shah and lauded them for stepping up.

    Babar also assured fans that the team is on the right track. Pakistan will now shift their focus to red-ball cricket when they lock horns against Bangladesh in a two-match Test series. Azam is keen to capitalise on the momentum they are carrying. He said: “The management and I have assigned specific roles for everyone and the players have been executing their plans nicely. Everyone expects me to do well. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen this time. I always try to perform in every game, but there are always ups and downs in cricket. This teaches you that it is important to remain positive all the time. We are on the right track and will look to carry the same momentum in Test matches as well.”

    “These were the things that we were missing,” said Babar who was delighted to see fans back in the stands. The star batter stated that his Pakistan side were overjoyed to see fans slowly returning to the stadiums. He also revealed that his players enjoyed seeing the fans cheer for them. Babar applauded the middle-order for firing with the bat alongside their improved fielding and believes those are the key takeaways from the series.

    “We enjoyed a lot. The way in which the fans showed their support in all three games, these were the things that we were missing. The fans are being allowed into the stadium as things are opening up slowly and it is a wonderful thing. I am very pleased with the team’s consistency. It’s good to see how players are taking responsibility,” he added.

    The right hand-batter recently surpassed veteran batter Mohammad Hafeez to become the leading run-scorer for Pakistan in T20Is. However, Azam had a quiet series with the bat, as he could only score 27 runs from his 3 appearances.