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  • Your choice: Who will die in Meray Paas Tum Ho?

    Your choice: Who will die in Meray Paas Tum Ho?

    The most anticipated Saturday night: The double episode finale hits television screens and cinemas tomorrow and almost all cinema tickets in major cities are sold out. So we asked you the question that everyone is talking about: Apparently, someone is going to die in the last episode: Who is it going to be?

    More than 450 of you replied to our poll and here are the results:

    Poll results are in

    Poll results show that 43 percent of people think that Danish (Humayun Saeed) is going to die in the last episode, followed by Mehwish (Ayeza Khan) at 35 percent, baby boy Rumi at eight percent, Hania (Hira Mani) at seven percent, Shehwar (Adnan Siddiqui) at six and three percent of you said writer of the drama, Khalil ur Rehman Qamar would die after the final episode.

    READ MORE: Advance booking for ‘Meray Paas Tum Ho’ finale sets new record at the box-office

    We saved the top conspiracy theories and here are some of the best:

    Murderer Shehwar
    The Mehwish Advantage
    The Real Conspiracy
    Hira Hating
    Killing off Everyone
    The ‘Factual’ Conspiracy
    Aurat Power

    READ MORE: Ending of ‘Meray Paas Tum Ho’ still undecided

    The episodes airs on Saturday at 8PM on ARY Digital.

  • After Sindh, Balochistan also bans gutka

    After Sindh, Balochistan also bans gutka

    The Balochistan Food Authority has imposed a ban on gutka (chewing tobacco) consumption in the province.

    Director-General BFA Ibrahim Baloch said the consumption of gutka is a health risk and people who eat it regularly are at risk of getting mouth, tongue or throat cancer.

    “We won’t allow anyone to play with human lives,” said the DG.

    The food authority has delivered a notification to all deputy commissioners, asking them to take action against those who produce and sell gutka, along with the customers. 

    Sindh has already imposed a ban on eating and selling gutka on December 19, 2019. According to the law, chewing of gutka can lead to imprisonment for six years and a fine of Rs500,000 will be imposed on violators.

  • ‘Intimate photos of Jeff Bezos, Laura Sanchez were leaked by her brother’

    ‘Intimate photos of Jeff Bezos, Laura Sanchez were leaked by her brother’

    Intimate photos of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend, American news anchor Lauren Sanchez, were leaked by the latter’s brother, The New York Times (NYT) has reported.

    According to reports, Michael Sanchez released the images to National Enquirer — an American tabloid newspaper — which was reported by NYT after the publication accessed the four unnamed sources and a written contract between Michael and American Media Inc — parent company of The Enquirer.

    The Enquirer had long ago claimed that the source of the picture was Michael Sanchez, but the paradigm shifted when Bezos’ forensic team accused Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman (MBS) for hacking his cellphone. 

    In reaction to The Guardian’s report, the Saudi Embassy in Washington DC and AMI had, however, denied the involvement of the Saudi crown prince.

    Earlier, the pictures in question had also become the reason behind Bezos’ divorce. Things are still not very clear as different media outlets are making varying claims.

  • Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy rubs shoulders with Deepika Padukone at Davos

    Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy rubs shoulders with Deepika Padukone at Davos

    Pakistan’s resident Oscar-winner Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy recently met and had a lovely conversation on artists and their moral responsibility with Deepika Padukone.

    The award-winning filmmaker shared a picture of herself with Deepika from Davos, calling the actor a hero.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/B7sNhGiB3a9/

    While details of their meeting are still unknown, it is likely that the two met at TIME Magazine’s Mental Health Luncheon: A Blueprint for Solving the Youth Mental Health Crisis. Sharmeen had thanked TIME in her caption.

    According to the publication, “The event [luncheon] will convene some of the world’s most prominent experts and leaders. The event will feature a keynote interview with internationally-acclaimed actor and mental health advocate Deepika Padukone, who TIME named to the TIME 100 list of the most influential people in the world in 2018″.

    Deepika also received the esteemed Crystal Award at Davos this year for her work on spreading awareness about mental health.

    Read more – Deepika Padukone delivers heartening speech on mental health at Davos

    Deepika’s Chappak is based on the true story of an acid attack survivor Laxmi Agarwal. The film sheds light on the plight of the survivor and her journey towards her healing and growth. Sharmeen’s documentary Saving Face was also based on the same lines.

    A few days prior to meeting Deepika, Sharmeen also met George Clooney with whom she discussed film and activism. We’re not sure if the two met at Davos or elsewhere.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/B7csZIlBSmJ/
  • Weekend events in your city

    Weekend events in your city

    Lahore

    Gur Mela

    Date: 26 Jan, Sunday

    Time: 10 AM – 5 PM

    Venue: Meadows Aqua & Safari Resort, 2 KM Khudpur Road , 27 KM Mulatan Road Maraka Stop , Near Behria Town.

    Qawali Night

    Date: 25 Jan, Saturday

    Time: 9 PM – 1:11 AM

    Venue: Pind Restaurant Iqbal Town26 Gulshan Block Dubai Chowk , Allama Iqbal Town.

    Islamabad

    Millennial Food Fest

    Date: 25th Jan, Saturday.

    Time:  9 AM – 4 PM

    Venue: RMS Greenwich Campus, G-13 Islamabad, Road No. 589, Opposite Sector G-13.

    Live Screening of Meray Pass Tum ho

    Date: 25 Jan, Saturday.

    Time: 7 PM – 10:30 PM

    Venue: Am Pm Cafe, Shop.no.20, Zaki Center, I-8 Markaz.

    Karachi

    Soul Fest

    Date and Time: Jan 24 at 1 PM – Jan 26 at 11 PM.

    Venue: Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Park Clifton, Boat Basin.

    Nunhey Wakeel: A Storytelling Session on Child Rights

    Date: 25Jan, Saturday.

    Time: 2 PM – 3 PM

    Venue: British Council Karachi.

  • ‘Enough is enough,’ Chohan tells Fawad over Buzdar criticism

    ‘Enough is enough,’ Chohan tells Fawad over Buzdar criticism

    Training guns at Federal Minister for Science & Technology Fawad Chaudhry, Punjab Information Minister Fayazul Hasan Chohan has questioned the former’s own performance in response to his criticism aimed at Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Usman Buzdar.

    According to Geo, Fayaz has accused Fawad of trying to remain relevant with his stunts and said he had “crossed all limits” when it came to violating the party’s discipline.

    “You should think about how to benefit the ship that you’re on,” said Chohan. “It is not his [Fawad] prerogative to give opinions on whether CM Buzdar should stay or go,” he said when asked to comment on Fawad’s statements, while speaking to a private media outlet.

    The provincial minister said only Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan had the prerogative to decide whether Buzdar should remain as Punjab’s chief executive or not and added that the premier, the entire cabinet and treasury benches were satisfied with Buzdar’s performance “100 per cent”.

    “I can give him befitting, beautiful replies in my style,” said Chohan. “However, I am bound by my disciplined attitude not to do so. I would request him that excess of everything is bad.”

    The information minister expressed disappointment that Fawad had still not learned how to talk about people from his party or government, adding that he was like a brother to him. “However, this has been his problem and he will never change.”

    “It is his habit to try to become a hero. He tries to issue a statement every month or so to become a hero in front of the media,” he added. 

    Chohan advised Fawad to play his part as the federal minister of science and technology to ensure Pakistan became a force to be reckoned with in space. “I request you to prepare a Ghauri II or a Ghauri III for space. Leave the clerics and Usman Buzdar alone,” he added.

  • Cloud kitchen startups make Indian housewives major economic force

    Cloud kitchen startups make Indian housewives major economic force

    At a time when South Asian women long to demand their basic rights in the face of hardships such as a convincing their families for proper access to education and the world for better employment opportunities, it appears that technology has transmuted their dreams into a reality.

    In India, new smartphone apps like Curryful, Homefoodi and Nanighar are tapping the skills of housewives to prepare meals for hungry urbanites and millennials who cannot manage both office and domestic work simultaneously.

    These cloud kitchen restaurants have no physical presence but they deliver delicious home-cooked food right at your doorstep.

    “Housewives were a huge untapped resource and we want to be the Uber of home-cooked food,” said Ben Mathew, who launched Curryful in 2018.

    His company has five people for the app’s daily maintenance and operations, who work with 52 women and three men. This 31-year-old web entrepreneur hopes to get one million women chefs on board by 2022.

    Here is an interesting drill that they do, they usually train employees in processes of sanitisation, cooking, prep time and packaging, and then launch them on the platform.

    With India’s cloud kitchen sector expected to reach $1.05 billion by 2023, according to data platform Inc42, other companies are also keen to get a slice of the action.

  • Edhi shelter raided after girl allegedly dies of torture

    Edhi shelter raided after girl allegedly dies of torture

    A judicial magistrate along with the team of the Sindh Social Welfare Department raided an Edhi shelter home in Karachi’s Clifton Thursday after a girl allegedly died of torture there.

    A woman in her complaint registered in the Clifton police station had stated that a girl was tortured to death by a teacher at the shelter home.

    As per reports, SSWD (Sindh Social Welfare Department) officials took seven girls into protective custody during the raid. The statements of around 150 girls were documented in the presence of the judicial magistrate and seven of them complained that they were tortured. The girls were handed over to the Sindh Social Welfare Department.

    Meanwhile, the Head of the Edhi Foundation Faisal Edhi rebutted the allegations and termed the case as baseless saying that the girl died a natural death because she was sick.

    “It was a natural death that was why it wasn’t reported to the police”, he stated.

    He said the complainant had been living in the shelter home since her childhood, adding that her brother wanted to take her home with him which is why “all these stories were being made up”.

    Faisal further said that 150 girls were present inside the shelter home at the time of the raid and only seven of them agreed to leave, adding that the girls who were taken into protective custody had “liberal views”.

  • Over 300 bodies of newly born babies found by Edhi Foundation in 2019

    Over 300 bodies of newly born babies found by Edhi Foundation in 2019

    The Edhi Foundation, in 2019, recovered over 300 bodies of newly born babies, mostly of girls, in different parts of Karachi. They were later buried properly in graveyards, according to officials of the Edhi Foundation.

    According to a report in Dawn, Saad Edhi said that as many as 375 bodies of newborn babies were found at open places or roadsides in Karachi last year. He said that compared to 2018, the figure of dead bodies of babies had doubled in 2019.

    Meanwhile, Head of Edhi Foundation Faisal Edhi told the publication that the main plausible reason was that some people did not want female children. He claimed that when during ultrasound it transpired that the mother had conceived a girl, the family got abortion as they preferred a male child due to societal pressure. However, abortions are only allowed on “solid medical grounds” such as saving the life of the mother.

    All the bodies were buried properly in Edhi graveyards.

  • Schools in Lahore to close early due to Pak vs Ban T20I series

    Schools in Lahore to close early due to Pak vs Ban T20I series

    The Punjab Education Department has announced that all schools in Lahore will close at 11 am on January 24 and 25 (Friday and Saturday) due to the Twenty20 series between Pakistan and Bangladesh scheduled to begin from Friday.

    According to reports, educational institutes have been directed to let the children leave early on Friday and Saturday.

    Meanwhile, the Lahore traffic police has also issued a traffic plan for the convenience of the citizens.

    After consensus with the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), Pakistan will be hosting the Bangladesh Cricket team in three different phases.

    The Bangladesh cricket team arrived in Lahore Wednesday for the first phase which commences Friday as Pakistan and Bangladesh face each other at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium. All three T20I matches in this phase will be played in Lahore on January 24, 25 and 27.

    ICC officials have also landed in Lahore for the series.

    Bangladesh team will return to play 1st Test on February 7-11 and after PSL, they will return to play one-off ODI and 2nd Test in Karachi’s National Stadium.