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  • ‘Meet the Khans’: Faryal Makhdoom, Amir Khan are getting their own reality TV series

    ‘Meet the Khans’: Faryal Makhdoom, Amir Khan are getting their own reality TV series

    British-Pakistani boxer Amir Khan and Faryal Makhdoom have announced that they are getting their own show: a BBC Three documentary titled Meet The Khans: Big In Bolton.

    Faryal took to social media to make the announcement and express her excitement.

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    According to MSN, the ‘all-access’ documentary, is set to air on BBC Three and will follow Faryal and Amir as they juggle their family life and their careers. The couple’s three children will also feature in the documentary. The series has been advertised as a no-holds-barred and access all areas behind the scenes glimpse at the pair.

    The show was announced at a session for Edinburgh TV Festival earlier this week, where BBC Three controller Fiona Campbell spoke about new titles that will be coming to the channel.

    Sharing her thoughts on Meet the Khans, Campbell said: “It’s about family and struggles and relationships. It epitomises what BBC Three wants to be. It’s going to be really cool.”

    Meanwhile, BBC in its official statement said that the documentary will “take us into the world of Olympic medalist and boxing World Champion Amir Khan and his fashion and beauty influencer wife, Faryal Makhdoom. It’s an all-access area look into the dynamics of this young couple in Amir’s beloved Bolton as they juggle a young family, their relationship and career pressures under the glare of modern media.”

    It is pertinent to mention here that the couple’s life is nothing short of a reality series marked with a long feud with the in-laws followed by an emotional reunion, cheating allegations, extramarital affairs and public scandals.

    Read more – Boxer Amir Khan expresses desire to become sports minister

    Amir is also no stranger to reality tv – he has also taken part in I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, Countdown, Beat the Star, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and Celebrity Juice.

  • Asim Azhar, Noori and Ali Azmat’s upcoming song will honour the jawaans of Pakistan

    Asim Azhar, Noori and Ali Azmat’s upcoming song will honour the jawaans of Pakistan

    Asim Azhar, Ali Azmat and Ali Noor and Ali Hamza of Noori have come together for a ‘Melody of Pride’ which will honour the jawaans of Pakistan.

    All artists featuring in the song shared their excitement for their upcoming song and teaser on social media with Ali Hamza saying that it is “one of the most exciting projects” he has done as a music producer. The singer also shared that the song is “a first of its kind rock anthem, which is the re-make of a popular patriotic song from the ’80s.”

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    The short teaser shows shots of cadets training, jawaans fighting and a glimpse of the flag ceremony at Wagah Border. The singers feature in only shot.

    Meanwhile, ISPR in a statement, said that the melody is “a unique music composition”.

    “Pakistan’s top melody voices: Ali Hamza, Ali Azmat, Ali Noor and Asim Azhar have collaborated for this Defence & Martyrs Day. They pay a very special tribute to the services rendered by our Armed Forces and its operational readiness. The song showcases the sacrifices of Pakistan as a nation in fighting terrorism and the transformation of our Armed Forces into a cutting edge military structure, second to none.

    It adds: “Renowned music maestro, Ali Hamza with his unique creativity, has composed a first of its kind rock music, blending modern techno beats with the military instruments of the Army School of Music. The video also incorporates stylized shots of the singers patriotically supporting their heroes.”

    Ali Noor also shared some BTS shots from the making of the song on Instagram.

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    Asim and Ali Azmat have previously also collaborated for the PSL V anthem Tayyar Hain for which they received a lot of backlash.

  • Pakistanis are outraged with PTA for blocking Tinder

    Pakistanis are outraged with PTA for blocking Tinder

    On Tuesday, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) blocked access to Tinder and several other dating apps in a bid to control “immoral” and “indecent” content.

    In a statement, PTA said it barred users from accessing Tinder, Grindr, SayHi, Tagged and Skout after the social networking apps failed to “moderate… content in accordance” with Pakistan’s laws.

    The PTA said the ban addressed the “negative effects of immoral/indecent content”, adding that the apps could request to have their blocks lifted if they show they are “moderating the indecent/immoral content through meaningful engagement”. However, the regulator did not specify what it meant by that engagement.

    Meanwhile, Tinder, in a statement, said it would “welcome the opportunity to discuss our product and moderation efforts with PTA and look forward to a meaningful conversation.”

    Following the announcement, enraged Pakistanis took to social media to express their anger at PTA for blocking the apps.

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    Other Twitter users including Osman Khalid Butt decided to make a joke of the situation.

    Earlier, PTA asked YouTube to immediately block all videos they consider “objectionable” from being accessed in the country. The demand was criticised by rights campaigners who fear creeping censorship and control of Pakistan’s internet and printed media.

    In July, authorities issued a final warning to Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, ordering it to filter any obscene content, following which TikTok not only upgraded its ‘Community Guidelines’, but also released its Urdu language version for Pakistani users.

  • VIDEO: ‘PTI should fear the day when Fawad Chaudhry writes a book’

    VIDEO: ‘PTI should fear the day when Fawad Chaudhry writes a book’

    Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) stalwart Rana Sanaullah has said that the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) should fear the day when the incumbent federal minister for science and technology, Fawad Chaudhry, writes a book.

    Speaking to a private media outlet, Sanaullah, who was appearing on the show with Fawad, was asked what he had to say about the explosive viral excerpts from Railways Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad’s upcoming book.

    “These claims support our stance and these questions should be asked to people whose stances are being contradicted,” he said in response.

    Sanaullah maintained that most people state the truth while writing a book or try to do so because humans are mortal but books live on for hundreds of years even after the author’s demise.

    “So I think PTI should fear the day when Fawad Chaudhry writes a book. It would be more dangerous than this one.”

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    Earlier, the railways minister had announced that he wrote a book during the coronavirus lockdown, which will be released on September 6.

  • French president refuses to condemn blasphemous caricatures of Holy Prophet (PBUH)

    French President Emmanuel Macron has defended the decision by Charlie Hebdo magazine to re-publish blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), saying “we have freedom of expression and freedom of belief”.

    But Macron, speaking on a visit to Lebanon on Tuesday, said it was incumbent on French citizens to show civility and respect for each other, and avoid a “dialogue of hate”.

    “It’s never the place of a president to pass judgment on the editorial choice of a journalist or newsroom, never. Because we have freedom of the press,” Macron said.

    The infamous French magazine is republishing the offensive caricatures, which unleashed a wave of anger in the Muslim world, to mark the start of the trial of alleged accomplices in the militant attack against it in 2015.

    Most cartoons were first published by a Danish newspaper in 2005 and then by Charlie Hebdo a year later.

    “We will never lie down. We will never give up,” Editor Laurent Sourisseau wrote in a piece to accompany the front cover that will be published in print on Wednesday.

    Twelve people, including some of the magazine’s cartoonists, were killed when Said and Cherif Kouachi stormed the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo and sprayed the building with automatic gunfire.

    The Kouachi brothers and a third gunman who killed five people in the 48 hours that followed the Charlie Hebdo massacre were shot dead by police in different stand-offs, but 14 of their alleged accomplices go on trial on Wednesday.

    The decision to republish the offensive cartoons will be seen by some as a defiant gesture in defence of free expression.

    But others may see it as a renewed provocation by a magazine that has long courted controversy with its satirical attacks on religion.

    After the 2006 publication of the cartoons, people online warned the weekly would pay for its mockery. For Muslims, any depiction of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) is blasphemous.

  • FIA arrests two men in Multan for harassing, blackmailing women

    FIA arrests two men in Multan for harassing, blackmailing women

    The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday arrested two men for allegedly harassing and blackmailing women in Multan.

    As per reports, complaints were registered against them at the agency’s cybercrime wing.

    Objectionable videos and pictures of women were recovered from the cell phones detained from the arrested persons. They will be presented before the relevant court for further legal action.

    Earler in August, the FIA had arrested a man for allegedly blackmailing his former wife in Multan. The agency received a complaint regarding the man threatening his former wife to share obscene videos and photos of her on social media.

  • Federal cabinet approves first-ever licence for cannabis use; seized drugs to no longer be destroyed

    Federal cabinet approves first-ever licence for cannabis use; seized drugs to no longer be destroyed

    In what has been termed a “landmark decision” by Federal Minister for Science & Technology Fawad Chaudhry, the federal cabinet has approved the first-ever licence for the Science & Tech Ministry and Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR) to use hemp — cannabis plant — for industrial and medical purposes.

    After the approval, confiscated drugs will no longer be destroyed and instead be used to make medicines, reports said.

    The development was confirmed by Fawad, who took to Twitter and wrote:

    The federal cabinet’s decision comes months after it was reported that Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan wanted the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) to stop burning charas [hashish form of cannabis] and other seized drugs, and instead set up a factory where they can be utilised to make medicines.

    In a video doing rounds over the internet in February, Narcotics Control Minister Shehryar Afridi could be heard as saying that his department was working to set up a factory on the premier’s orders. This factory would manufacture medicines solely from seized drugs, thousands of kilogrammes of which are set ablaze every year at a drug-burning ceremony held by the ANF.

    “We are setting up a factory… we burn a huge cache of heroin, charas and afeem [opium] every year, but other countries use them to make medicines. Now, on PM Imran Khan’s instructions, a factory will be established in Tirah [Valley] so that lives of locals can be improved,” he had said.

    According to research conducted by many reliable sources over the years, cannabis, marijuana or hashish has long been known to provide pain relief from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, nausea, and can also minimise some symptoms of glaucoma and Crohn’s disease.

    Similarly, a study at Hannover Medical School found that opiate addicts — usually people addicted to painkillers like Vicodin, Percocet, Oxycontin, or Demerol — were able to better kick their opiate addiction after taking small dosages of heroin.

  • Esra Bilgiç shuts up a Pakistani troll on Instagram

    Esra Bilgiç shuts up a Pakistani troll on Instagram

    After months of being patient and forgiving Pakistani viewers for their comments on her choice of clothes and outfits, Esra Bilgiç has finally hit out a troll who asked her not to wear “such dresses”.

    Under a recent Instagram post, a social media user by the name Astounding Ali commented: “Please don’t wear such dresses Halima baji, not good.”

    In response to his comment, Bilgiç remarked, “Let me give you a little advice: Don’t follow me. Thank you.” Go Queen!

    Esra has been on the receiving end of such comments ever since her character Halime Sultan became popular in Pakistan after PTV aired the Urdu-dubbed version of the superhit Turkish series Diriliş: Ertuğrul. A group of fans, who apparently do not understand the concept of acting, had a meltdown because the actors, who play different characters in the show based in the pre-Ottoman era, are much different in their real lives of the 21st century. These ‘fans’ have left hundreds of unwarranted comments on Esra’s choice of clothing and have called her out for it.

    The actor even had to close the comments sections on some of her posts to avoid such comments. Meanwhile, Ahsan Khan defended the actor and urged Pakistanis to “at least spare the cast”. In a tweet, the actor had said: “I know people in Pakistan think it’s okay to troll actors here and judge them, [but] at least spare the cast of Ertuğrul. It’s bloody shameful what’s going on! Who the hell are we to do this to them?”

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    Read more – QMobile’s decision to appoint Esra Bilgiç as brand ambassador leaves the entertainment industry divided

    Despite all such comments, Esra’s popularity in Pakistan has been soaring and the actor has been chosen to be the brand ambassador of two major Pakistani brands: Khaadi and QMobile. Her visit to Pakistan is also much-awaited.

  • ‘Lt Gen (r) Asim Bajwa to issue clarification on report linking military career to family’s businesses’

    ‘Lt Gen (r) Asim Bajwa to issue clarification on report linking military career to family’s businesses’

    Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shibli Faraz has said that Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Lt Gen (r) Asim Saleem Bajwa will soon be issuing a clarification on the news report that linked his military career to his family’s businesses. 

    Faraz, in a statement on Twitter, said that he had spoken to Bajwa, who will in a few days issue a “detailed” clarification on reports regarding his assets.

    Bajwa, who is also the chairperson of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Authority, has already rebutted the report while calling it a “malicious propaganda story”.

    The report had gone viral last week.

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    Lt Gen (r) Bajwa, who replaced former information minister Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan as the premier’s media aide earlier this year, is a retired three-star general.

    During his military career, he has served as the director general (DG) of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) as well as the commander of Pakistan Army’s Southern Command.

  • VIDEO: 3-year-old girl reported safe after being lifted several meters into air by kite

    VIDEO: 3-year-old girl reported safe after being lifted several meters into air by kite

    A 3-year-old girl in Taiwan was reported safe after getting caught in the strings of a kite and lifted several meters into the air.

    A girl was taking part in a kite festival in Taiwan when she was caught up by a giant, long-tailed orange kite.

    Videos being circulated on social media showed that she was twisted several times above a crowd of adults who tried to pull the kite back to earth. As per reports, the girl was terrified and suffered minor physical injuries in the incident.

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