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  • Mufti Aziz-ur-Rehman indicted in the madrassa sexual abuse case

    Mufti Aziz-ur-Rehman indicted in the madrassa sexual abuse case

    Mufti Aziz-ur-Rehman, his sons, and accomplices have been indicted in the madrassa sexual abuse case by a Lahore court, Samaa has reported.

    The court had adjourned the hearing till October 5. The court ordered the prosecution department to produce its witnesses at the next hearing to record their testimonies.

    As per the challan, the cleric sexually abused his student by promising him help in passing his exam.

    Read more- Police find Mufti Aziz-ur-Rehman guilty in madrassa sexual abuse case

    Previously, Mufti Aziz confessed that the video was not fake and confirmed that he was secretly filmed by his student.

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    The victim in his statement said that Mufti Aziz accused him of cheating in his exams after which he was banned from taking the exams for three years. Mufti Aziz then asked the student to “make him happy” in order to get the ban lifted.

  • ‘Alvida Legend’: Transnational stars mourn the death of Umer Sharif

    ‘Alvida Legend’: Transnational stars mourn the death of Umer Sharif

    Legendary comedian Umer Sharif passed away on Saturday in Germany at the age of 66. The Zameen Aasman star, was battling cardiac ailments, his surgery was scheduled in United States.

    He was taken to Germany in an air ambulance. His death has left his fans and followers shattered.

    Transnational celebrities have paid their tributes to the veteran performer on social media.

    Read more– Legendary Comedian Umer Sharif sets off to the US for medical treatment

  • Seven booked for gang-raping minor girl for five months

    Seven booked for gang-raping minor girl for five months

    Police on Saturday booked seven people for gang-raping a minor orphan girl for five months. She was repeatedly assaulted by the suspects who blackmailed her and threatened to kill her younger brother, Dawn reported.

    According to the FIR, an orphan girl of Basti Odki Abdullah Shah was allegedly gang-raped by two locals at gunpoint about four to five months ago after the suspects found her alone at her house when her mother was away working as a housemaid.

    The FIR stated the two suspects threatened to murder the victim’s only younger brother Ahmed if she told anyone about the rape.

    Police sources said the girl, however, had informed her mother about the incident who kept visiting the local police station to register the complaint but because of some locally influential people, she was turned away by police officials of the area.

    Meanwhile, another local joined the two suspects in the heinous crime and they would gang-rape the girl whenever they found her alone.

    Some three months ago, four other men of the same area caught the suspects red-handed while they were assaulting the girl in the fields and they too blackmailed and raped her. The FIR said that as a result of repeatedly being rape, the girl got pregnant.

    The sources said some of the police officials forced the victim’s mother into taking the matter to the panchayat (village jury).

    The panchayat decided that the suspects would pay a certain amount to the girl’s mother as compensation and she, along with her two children, leave the village. The girl’s family came to Lahore following the decision.

    However, the family returned to the village and again contacted the police for registration of a case against the suspects.

    Finally, the district police officer took notice of the incident and on his orders, the local police station in Bahawalnagar registered an FIR against all the seven suspects under Section 376 of the Pakistan Penal Code.

    District police spokesperson Saleem Ayaz admitted that the girl’s family had approached the police for help but meanwhile, a local panchayat interfered and settled the issue on its own.

    He said a case against the seven suspects was registered on the order of DPO Zafar Buzdar and three of them had been detained, while raids were being conducted to arrest the others.

  • ‘Umer qaid yaan sazaa-e-moat’: Yasra Rizvi on abusive marriages, Celebrities cheer

    ‘Umer qaid yaan sazaa-e-moat’: Yasra Rizvi on abusive marriages, Celebrities cheer

    Yasra Rizvi shared pictures and messages from a recent campaign on toxic marriages, the Dunk star took to social media to post elaborative captions with trailblazing pictures.

    The Churails diva also talked about violence against women in marriages. “Stand up for your daughters and sisters and friends and female relatives and abused neighbours or that random woman being beaten up by her husband in a restaurant while he says ‘yeh hamara aapas ka maamla hai’ before you get to carry one of your own to the graveyard just because you were too busy being polite!”

    Read more– After Sonya Hussyn, Yasra Rizvi hits out at Lux Style awards

    Earlier, in August  Yasra Rizvi slammed the Lux Style awards post they announced their nominations for the forthcoming ceremony.

    Fellow actresses Sarwat Gillani and Ghana Ali expressed their support for the campaign under the comment section.

  • Dubai Expo 2020: Fascinating Pakistan pavilion records 8,000 visitors on first day

    Dubai Expo 2020: Fascinating Pakistan pavilion records 8,000 visitors on first day

    The Pakistani pavilion became an instant hit under the theme of “Pakistan’s Hidden Treasures” at the Dubai Expo 2020 that began on October 1, Geo News reported.

    The Pakistani pavilion consists of eight key spaces showcasing the country’s history, religious diversity, culture, landscape, and wildlife, among others. One of the pavilions depicted how Pakistan is combating climate change and displays information and art installations related to the government’s Billion-Tree Tsunami project.

    https://twitter.com/Expo2020Pak/status/1444387885914984452?s=20

    Advisor to the Prime Minister of Pakistan for Commerce and Investment Abdul Razak Dawood also visited the pavilion on the first day and interacted with visitors.

    “As Expo 2020 commences, I am excited and eager to see it start and shape a new era for Pakistan’s tourism, culture, and investment,” Dawood tweeted.

    https://twitter.com/razak_dawood/status/1443817550886866945?s=20

    According to a report by Khaleej Times, about 8,000 people crowded the Pakistani pavilion on the very first day of the expo.

    The expo started on October 1 and will continue for the next six months. However, the Pakistani pavilion will continue to demonstrate the history, culture, and beauty of Balochistan for the entire month of October

  • PM Khan welcomes Pandora Papers, vows to investigate Pakistanis mentioned

    PM Khan welcomes Pandora Papers, vows to investigate Pakistanis mentioned

    The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which has been investigating international finance and tax havens, has released a detailed list of public figures with offshore companies called the ‘Pandora Papers’ as part of their new investigation.

    Nearly 700 Pakistanis have been named in the report including Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin, Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) leader Sharjeel Memon, Pakistan Muslim League -Nawaz’s (PML-N) Senator Ishaq Dar’s son Ali Dar, Punjab provincial minister Aleem Khan, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senator Faisal Vawda, Pakistan Muslim League- Quaid (PML-Q) leader and Federal Minister for Water Resources Monis Elahi.

    Reacting to the news, Prime Minister Imran Khan vowed to investigate all those Pakistanis mentioned in the Pandora Papers, and tweeted: “If any wrongdoing is established we will take appropriate action.”

    “We welcome the Pandora Papers exposing the ill-gotten wealth of elites, accumulated through tax evasion & corruption & laundered out to financial ‘havens’. The UN SG’s Panel FACTI calculated a staggering $7 trillion in stolen assets parked in largely offshore tax havens,” he wrote on his official Twitter handle.

    “I call on the international community to treat this grave injustice as similar to the climate change crisis,” he added.

    As per Geo News, Pandora Papers is a development to what has earlier been revealed in the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers, as per reports. 

    The ICIJ’s major investigation titled: “The Pandora Papers”, is said to be the result of 600 journalists in 117 countries studying for months roughly 11.9 million documents that leaked from the offshore environment.

    Journalist Umar Cheema, who was part of the ICIJ’s team investigating the Pandora Papers, said that the names of several Pakistanis were on the Pandora Papers, adding that people should wait for another day as the report will officially be released on October 3.

  • Forgiving TTP: Never forget!

    Forgiving TTP: Never forget!

    Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that the government is in talks with some groups of the banned militant outfit, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). In an interview with TRT World, PM Khan said there are different groups that form the TTP and some of them want to talk to our government for peace. “So, we are in talks with them. It’s a reconciliation process.” Before PM’s interview, both President Arif Alvi and Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi had talked about giving amnesty to TTP members if they lay down their arms and follow the Constitution of Pakistan.

    These statements warrant a lot of questions: why did the president, prime minister, and foreign minister disclose such important information in interviews to media outlets and not in parliament? TTP is no ordinary terrorist outfit. The entire country came together after the horrific APS attack in December 2014, in which more than 150 people were martyred – most of them children. All the political forces of Pakistan reached a consensus, after which the National Action Plan (NAP) came about. There was a massive crackdown on TTP and other terrorist outfits. We finally managed to eliminate the TTP in Pakistan. Those from the TTP who survived the crackdown ran away to Afghanistan. At that time, the government in Kabul was not friendly towards Pakistan.

    The state told us that the TTP was supported and funded by India and Afghanistan – when Ehsanullah Ehsan first surrendered to Pakistan, he confirmed in a video that Afghan and Indian intelligence agencies [RAW and NDS] gave funds and other assistance to Pakistani Taliban to fight Pakistan. Last year, after sharing a dossier containing ‘irrefutable proofs’ of Indian funding of terrorism in Pakistan, Shah Mahmood Qureshi said: “The [specific] evidence presented by Pakistan provides a concrete proof of Indian financial and material sponsorship of multiple terrorist organisations, including UN-designated terrorist organisations Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, Balochistan Liberation Army and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.”

    What is the reason for Pakistan to hold talks with a RAW and NDS-funded/supported terrorist outfit when we have broken its back in our country? And now that we have a friendly government in Kabul, what is the need to hold talks with an enemy outfit? Should the Afghan Taliban not help reign in the TTP and take action against those who are carrying out attacks against Pakistan from Afghan soil? Or, is it true that the Afghan Taliban and the Pakistani Taliban both have the same ideology, even if the targets of their attacks are different? The people of Pakistan – who have been killed and maimed by the TTP over the years – deserve an answer.

    The government needs to be transparent. This decision cannot be taken just by the government alone. All political parties must have a debate on this issue and the people of Pakistan have to be taken on board as well. We cannot forget what the TTP did to our nation. We lost more than 70,000 lives at their hands. There must be a consensus about the talks and also the government should be transparent about the negotiations. Don’t keep us in the dark, dear government, for we were told that we will never forget their heinous crimes.

  • #PetrolPrice: Memes break the internet

    The government on Thursday, increased the price of petrol by Rs 4 per litre and that of high-speed diesel (HSD) by Rs 2 per litre.

    The prices of kerosene oil and light diesel oil (LDO) were increased by Rs 7.05 and Rs 8.82 per litre, respectively.

    From Oct 1, the price of petrol will be Rs 127.30 per litre, high-speed diesel will be Rs 122.04 per litre, kerosene oil will be Rs 99.31 and light diesel oil will be Rs 99.51 per litre.

    Social media users did not lose the opportunity to start a meme fest following the news.

    https://twitter.com/Haroonikram10/status/1444001135073894402?s=20
  • ‘Chance at a normal life’: Fawad supports TTP integration

    ‘Chance at a normal life’: Fawad supports TTP integration

    Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry is supporting ‘a normal life’ for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), those of whom wish to pledged loyalty to the state, reports Geo.

    Fawad said, “The people who could not fulfill their pledge of allegiance to Pakistan want to return to fulfill this pledge.”

    According to the minister, those people who wish to follow the constitution should be given a chance, adding that the government seeks to move forward with the conditions laid down by Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan.

    Earlier, PM Khan called for the disarmament of the TTP by saying, “We can forgive them and they can become normal citizens.”

    The information minister added that in Balochistan more than 3000 people have come back to a normal life, the ones who had ‘fallen prey to India’s conspiracies.’

    The TTP said that their leaders are engaged in “secret talks” and have asked all fighters to observe a ceasefire till October 20.

  • Ahsan Mohsin Ikram hits out at trolls for cursing death upon him and Minal Khan

    Ahsan Mohsin Ikram hits out at trolls for cursing death upon him and Minal Khan

    Social media’s trolling culture doesn’t seems to ease down, however celebrities have started responding back to their naysayers. Actor Ahsan Mohsin Ikram recently hit back on multiple trolls for their mean comments on him and wife Minal Khan.

    The Parchayee pair looked all excited and happy to ring in their honeymoon vacation in Maldives. They shared their special moments on social media.