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  • Second marriage? Avail a discount

    Second marriage? Avail a discount

    If you want to get a discount at a wedding hall in Bahawalpur, you have to get married again! On your second, third or fourth marriage, a wedding hall in Bahawalpur offers special packages to men. The only caveat is that the first wife has to make the booking.

    According to Samaa News, the owner of Al-Farooq Marriage Hall said that they offer 50 percent discount to men getting married for the second time, 75 percent to men getting married the third time and if men get married for the fourth time, they can get the hall for free at their valima. Talk about incentives!

    “Many
    people have told them that they can’t afford second weddings, so I thought of
    giving them an offer and making their lives a little simpler,” he told SAMAA
    TV. “We are in the business of bringing people together, we don’t want
    relationships to fall apart.”

  • Indian media mistakenly names Atif Aslam’s son as ‘Alhumdulilah’, apologises later

    Indian media mistakenly names Atif Aslam’s son as ‘Alhumdulilah’, apologises later

    Atif Aslam took to social media to announce the arrival of his baby boy with the caption ‘Ladies and gentlemen our new arrival Alhamdulilah. Both mother and baby are fine. Keep us in your prayers and don’t forget to say Mashallah’.

    Atif was thankful to God so he wrote Alhumdulilah. But someone who works in an Indian tabloid surely did not know what the term means.

    And soon people started trolling the post.

    However, the writer accepted the mistake and also corrected it.

    Desi Martini also posted an apology for the mistake.

  • Mehwish Hayat wants Michelle Obama to be next US president

    Mehwish Hayat wants Michelle Obama to be next US president

    Mehwish Hayat wants the ex-first lady of United States Michelle Obama to become the next president of the country.

    Taking to Twitter, the actor praised the former first lady for efficiently running Obama Foundation and expressed her admiration for her.

    Michelle recently visited schools in Vietnam and Malaysia where she praised the efforts of women there to promote girl’s education.

    In October, Mehwish was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for girls’ rights by the Ministry of Human Rights.

  • Peshawar’s first 3D cinema to open on Dec 26

    Peshawar’s first 3D cinema to open on Dec 26

    After a long wait, Peshawar is finally getting its first 3D cinema on December 26. The city’s historic Naz Cinema, built in 1942, is being renovated and converted from a normal theatre to a cineplex.

    According to a report in Samaa News, the screen test of the cinema has been completed and the work on seating, carpeting and the cafeteria will be completed in few days.

    The cinema’s owner, Jawad Raza hopes that the cinema will appease to the movie lovers who will get a chance to watch films with the latest technology. He said that the cinema will also provide “a pleasant atmosphere to families,” and that their comfort is top priority.

    Raza shared that for the security for families 32 secret cameras and round-the-clock security guards will be in place.

    A Naz Cinema mobile app will also be introduced for online booking of tickets.

    Most film lovers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa often go to cinemas in Islamabad but Naz Cinema will give them an opportunity to enjoy movies in the city.

    Over the years, the cinema industry of KP had witnessed a sharp decline because of terrorist attacks and various other reasons. However, things are looking up now. 2019’s highest-grossing film Superstar, featuring Bilal Ashraf and Mahira Khan has also been shot in the city.

  • Special hunting permit issued to King of Bahrain for rare houbara bustard

    Special hunting permit issued to King of Bahrain for rare houbara bustard

    Special permits have been issued by the federal government to King of Bahrain Sheikh Hamad bin Isa bin Salman al Khalifa and five of his family members to hunt the internationally-protected houbara bustard during the 2019-20 hunting season. The permits were delivered to the Embassy of the Kingdom of Bahrain in the federal capital and had the names of hunters and the areas allocated to them.

    According to a report in Dawn News, the king and his hunting party which includes his uncle, his country’s interior minister, adviser on defence, cousins, and other people have been granted special permission to hunt the endangered bird in different districts of Pakistan including Jamshoro district, Sujawal district, Naushahro Feroze district in Sindh, Jaffarabad district in Balochistan, Tando Mohammad Khan, Hyderabad and Malir (excluding Malir Cantonment and Dhabeji areas) districts.

    Under a code of conduct issued by the foreign ministry, a hunter can hunt 100 houbara bustards in a 10-day hunting spree during the three-month-long hunting season between Nov 1, 2019 and Jan 31, 2020.

    Though the houbara bustard belongs to the colder central Asian region, every winter it migrates southwards towards the relatively warm environment here.

    Ruthless hunting by Arab hunters has resulted in a sharp decline in its population because of which it is protected under various international nature conservation conventions and a ban on its hunting has been imposed – Pakistanis are not allowed to hunt this bird.

    Previously, Prime Minister Imran Khan had been very critical of Nawaz Sharif’s government for permitting the hunting of the rare bird.

  • Exactly 10 years ago my life changed: Mahira Khan

    Exactly 10 years ago my life changed: Mahira Khan

    There is no denying that Mahira Khan is the ultimate queen. The superstar is loved and appreciated by people across the world.

    Mahira, who recently celebrated her 35th birthday, in an Instagram post recounted her last ten years and expressed her love for her son, who turned ten this year. She also thanked her fans and followers for being there for her as well as for their birthday wishes.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/B6c8sNNhLsA/

    Following her post, members of the industry sent love her way.

  • Shahid Afridi deletes tweet supporting Uyghur Muslims in China

    Shahid Afridi deletes tweet supporting Uyghur Muslims in China

    Former Pakistan cricket captain Shahid Afridi has deleted his tweet in which he implored Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan to speak up against China’s persecution of the minority.

    Afirid had on Sunday posted a tweet in which he wrote, “Hearing of atrocities committed against the Uighur Muslims is heartbreaking. I request Imran Khan to speak up against this; talk of uniting the Muslim ummah includes our brothers & sisters in China too”.

    The cricket star in his tweet also requested the Chinese Embassy in Pakistan to address the issue.

    China has been facing criticism for detaining around one million Uighurs and other Muslims in internment camps in Xinjiang. The activists in Uighur had claimed last month that they have documented nearly 500 camps and prisons run by the country to detain members of the ethnic group.

    Moreover, according to Samaa, a Washington-based group, East Turkistan National Awakening Movement gave the geographic coordinates of 182 suspected “concentration camps” where Uighurs are allegedly pressured to renounce their culture.

    The organisation after researching images from Google Earth, said it also spotted 209 suspected prisons and 74 suspected labor camps in the country.

    Chinese foreign ministry, however, has denied these allegation, terming them “baseless.”

  • LHC grants bail to Rana Sanaullah in narcotics case

    The Lahore High Court (LHC) has granted bail to former Punjab law minister Rana Sanaullah in a narcotics case lodged after Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) allegedly recovered drugs from his vehicle, Dunya News reported.

    According to the details, LHC has directed the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader to submit two surety bonds worth Rs1 million each.

    Rana Sanaullah on November 20 had submitted a bail plea in LHC for second time, stating that he was arrested in a false case of drugs smuggling as he used to criticize the government.

    He adopted a stance that he was earlier booked for smuggling of 21 kilograms heroin in the FIR [First Information Report], while later the weight of the captured contraband was declared 15 kilograms.

    Rana had also submitted a bail petition on November 10, which stated that the prosecution had failed to present any independent witness of the alleged recovery of the drugs, adding that the video evidence presented before the trial court was contradictory to the story narrated in the FIR.

    An anti-narcotics court had on December 11 extended judicial remand of Sanaullah till January 4, 2020, in the heroin smuggling case.

    On July 1, he was arrested by the ANF after the discovery of a large stash of drugs in his vehicle from near the Sukheke area in Punjab. The former law minister was arrested while travelling with his guards to a meeting from Faisalabad to Lahore.

    The case against him was filed in accordance with the Control of Narcotics Substances Act, 1997.

  • VIDEO: Indian Police destroy vehicles amid protests against citizenship act

    VIDEO: Indian Police destroy vehicles amid protests against citizenship act

    A video of Indian Police destroying vehicles parked outside a house during a protest against India’s citizenship bill has gone viral on the internet.

    The video shows a police official attacking a parked car and a motorbike outside a house in Bulandshhar city Uttar Pradesh while throwing stones at the protestors.

    https://twitter.com/UroosaAlam1/status/1208032702856908800

    Moreover, other videos of police randomly destroying vehicles in Lucknow and other areas, even where no one is protesting are also getting viral on the social media.

    https://twitter.com/AnujGurwara/status/1208607982126108673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1208607982126108673&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fscroll.in%2Fvideo%2F947733%2Fcaa-protests-these-videos-show-the-police-vandalising-vehicles-parked-on-the-streets

    At least 23 people have been killed in clashes between police and protesters since parliament passed the anti-Muslims law on December 11.

    India’s parliament had earlier passed a contentious citizenship bill that will grant citizenship to illegal immigrants who entered India from three neighbouring countries before 2015, but won’t grant citizenship to people who are Muslims.

  • EXCLUSIVE: Is Mansha Pasha the perfect girl for Jibran Nasir?

    EXCLUSIVE: Is Mansha Pasha the perfect girl for Jibran Nasir?

    Jibran Nasir and Mansha Pasha got engaged in an intimate afternoon ceremony in Karachi. The couple glowed as they exchanged rings, making our hearts flutter.

    Read more: IN PICTURES: Jibran Nasir and Mansha Pasha get engaged

    But is Mansha the perfect girl for Jibran? Jibran’s mother in an exclusive interview with The Current revealed the perfect girl for Jibran.

    When asked what sort of girl would complement Jibran, his mother said, “Someone who has a lot of patience. He has a lot of mood swings.”

    She added that Jibran needs to be more responsible and know “ghar kay kaam” if he wants to get married.

    Watch video:

    No one really knows when Jibran and Mansha got together but people starting shipping the couple after their dance from Faiza Saleem’s wedding went viral on social media.

    The two were also spotted together at the premiere of Mansha’s Laal Kabootar sparking rumours.